It is Week 7 of the One Room Challenge and guess what? I have changed my mind on the walls. If you follow me, I know you are not surprised. I just returned from a lovely week in North Myrtle Beach, SC (insert shout out to the world’s greatest niece and her husband for hosting us yet again)! In this update, I will share how I came to choose wall mural and paint color! I find my inspiration in the strangest places. This time it was Myrtle Beach!
What’s Your Inspiration
Our current wall color in this soon to be office is a mid toned grey, which I do like! But I have trended throughout the house to very light tones. So I am continuing this trend into this office update. Since the walls are on the dark side, I will paint the room in our main living area color of Simply White by Benjamin Moore. Of course, I am color matching with Behr because I simply love Behr. But as I sat on the beach this past week, I thought about colors and decided to definitely use my base of blue in this room. I will use several blue tones.
More inspiration came from this:
Just look at the colors of the sun setting in that sky! Lavender, orange, just lovely!
I, for some reason, am enamored with the striations in this shell. Can you even imagine what the whole shell looked like? And how long ago was it first broken into pieces?
The things your mind wanders to are simply fascinating. What really amazes me is that I don’t really like coastal decor. But here I am, about to use this theme for my office. I can’t wait to see where this leads me! The unexpected is so exciting!
Here are a few more shells that I fell in love with.
The last one reminds me of my original idea for grey concrete walls for this room. So one wall will share a combined feature inspired by this oyster shell and grey concrete.
Today, I started to paint the walls a basic Simply White, a Benjamin Moore color that brightens the walls of our main living area. It really is the perfect white. It is not too yellow and now too grey. This will be a fun week of creating and most definitely frustration as I try to transfer what is in my head onto my walls. Wish me luck!
Note: With all of the traveling this past month, I’m not sure I want to rush to meet the deadline for next week’s reveal. I will most likely finish one week late. But, who knows? Maybe I will get it all done!
Be sure to check out all of the progress from the Featured Designers and the hundreds of Guest Participants as they buckle down to finish this 8 week challenge! Week 7 ORC posts.
See you next week! I’ve gotta run! So much to do!
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