ttodd, I wanted to let you know I've been browsing through your PB album. I enjoy your home so much. It's very calming. Serene in fact. I love it.

Hey! You just caught me, I'm supposed to be packing for a weekend trip and NOT checking Decorating.

I was amazed to find that those drapes were a toile. I had seen them so many times and read them as a texture or very muted muddied print. I love that toile and have been just thinking about doing a toile similar in my own kitchen. The red is still pretty, but I'm getting bored. You know how that goes....
So, what happened with Colonial Spa? And I am waiting with bated breath for the kitchen surprise. (actually, I just made a Tuna sandwich, so perhaps I should say "baited" breath?)

As always....Red

Just looked at Waverly Vintage Tea Stain. It IS the same toile!

Red

Justgot2beme - I'm almost embarassed that you saw all of those pics! Shows my decorating (or paint) indecisiveness! Thank you for the compliment!

Hey Red -

The Waverly Vintage Tea Stain is close but still a diff. pattern.

The one that I have is Waverly La Petite Ferme'. The Tea Stain looks a tad bit more on the brown side but still slightly green.

I've been playing w/ SW samples again and I'm 99.99999% sure I'm painting over the BT w/ BM Strathmore Manor. It's so close to the BT (but a bit more on the brown side) that DH hasn't even noticed that 1/2 the rm. is brown & the other half is green! I tried to paint leftover BT over all of my spackle patches and it just looks bad to my eye. I even had it professionally shaken before painting. It just dried noticably lighter so I figured - 'What the hey' a sample is only $5 - I have to repaint the whole thing anyway.

The hall went BM Ivory Porcelain, the office BM Jonesboro Cream (KMCG, if you're reading it does look FABULOUS w/ Bosp. Toile in Flax).

The DR is going SW Irish Cream.

The hall and DR ceiling are going SW Cavier and the walls in the kitchen (which the hall leads into) are going black w/ Jonesboro Cream or Irish Cream cabintery. I'm pretty sure I'm moving the LR toile curtains into the kitchen since I've been unsucessful in locating the additional 2 pairs that I need.

All of the colors except for Irish Cream and Caviar are off of the same BM strip. Fingers crossed I can go buy all of the paint that I need in the next 2 wks. and knock it out.

I thought I was making a compromise when I decided to go all brown to sell the house but these colors are really great. I think becuase of the green tone that seems to be in the BM colors. The black ceiling is my unexpected twist and I think that since primarily all of the walls in the kitchen are covered in cabinets that will be rich cream, that the black peeks of wall will be pretty cool but not overwhelming to a buyer.

OMG I must have heard you! PICS PLEASE! I'm going to find your album RIGHT NOW! Thanks ttodd! I need to catch up on what your doing decor wise! I missed all this! :)

Hey don't worry about it. We all have things like that in our homes. Mine is lack of window trim since we just can't make ourselves plan a time to do it. Some of it's routed, stained and polied, just not installed.

Where are you painting a black ceiling? And how high is the ceiling? How does it look? I thought I caught something about this before but I guess I passed over it.

Red