Paint Colors

That is what I googled just now: paint colors.  I wanted to look at some paint options for my parent's bedroom and the first website that pulled up was Valspar.  Click, click and I'm hooked!  Look at all the colors palettes you have to chose from!

I love how clicking on a color brings up a room and shows how the paint would look on the wall, along with other colors that will compliment it!  You can also save your color to your "my projects" tab.  So I saved a few different blues to compare and see which ones my mom and I like best.

I started with Cool Whites because my mom's inspiration room are lots of blues and whites.  Here were my three favorite:

 Next I looked at the Neutral Blues and picked these three:

Now that I see them all together I know that Blue Whisper, Sea Side and Dreamy Clouds are out.  They all have too much green in them for the look we're going for.

So try to be productive today, but I know if you're like me you're going to want to just sit and click on paint colors!

I think Air Kiss is my favorite.  We'll have to see if my mom agrees!  Which one is your favorite?

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Ideas for Mom's Room

My mom agreed to let me re-design her room this summer, but on her last visit to Salt Lake, she expressed some concerns.  My mom and I have very different styles, and she needs her spaces to feel personalized, unlike me. I like very geometric patterns and modern designs.  She told me she doesn't want any art work that isn't meaningful.  She used to have a whole wall of her room dedicated to our school art work!  My dad hated it, but I think if I could format it right, I could create something along those lines that both my parents would love.  Gallery wall, anyone?  So here are some ideas to sell my parents on the idea:

I love the pops of yellow in this design.  My mom's room is going to be light blue and white, so I wonder what color I could pop in there that she wouldn't object to!

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I love the stripes behind this collection.  I would really love to do some light blue and white stripes behind the gallery collection in my mom's room.

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Of all the gallery walls I'm posting, this one feels the most personal to me.  Do you think its the variety of styles being shown?  It feels like its taken years to collect these pieces.

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And then if I have time, I want to do something like this down my mom's stair case.  Seriously, the woman cannot get enough picture frames in her life, so I'm thinking gallery walls are the way to go for her!

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Another one of my mom's loves is thrift store shopping, so I'm going to start collecting frames that I find there and probably spray paint them all to match the room and let her fill them with whatever she wants!  That will keep her busy while I'm painting her head board hot pink!  (Totally kidding, mom, totally kidding.)

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