Paint! ... and Flooring!!

As you may have picked up on in some of my recent posts, the paint is now up on the walls on the main level!  The ceilings, walls, trim, doors, etc. are all painted and ready for finishing touches. Here are some photos of each of the selections we've made for the various rooms on our main level. You'll also get to see the finished hardwood floors as well!  We went with a gray stain, but with the top coat there are definitely strong brown tones as well.  The floor reads a bit lighter in person than in these photos as well.

For the main living space we kept the wall color consistent.  We went with "North Star" for the majority of the walls in that space - kitchen, breakfast nook, living room, mudroom, front entry and the hall to the bedrooms. As an "accent" we painted the center pantry walls (outside) a darker shade of Gray.  I plan to put some artwork on the wall facing the dining room and I think it will really pop against the darker wall color.

Main Living Space Wall Color - "North Star"

Butler's pantry - "North Star" on the left wall and the dark gray we chose as an accent on the right wall (forget the name!)

Back of pantry wall on right - accent color

As we continue down the hallway from the front entry/dining room space, we come to the hall bathroom.  You saw this color in a previous post, but just for fun here's a reminder photo.

Hall Bath - "Tradewind"

One door down from the hall bath is the second bedroom on the main level. That paint color is called "Olympus White" - although it doesn't really look white at all!

Second Bedroom - "Olympus White"

The last stop on our tour is the Master Suite. First, the bedroom area in "Morning Fog."

Master Bedroom - "Morning Fog"

Then the master bathroom, which you've already seen in a previous post as well. The color is "Conservative Gray."

Master Bathroom - "Conservative Gray"

So that's the paint colors we chose for the main living level of the house - what do you think?

I'm Feeling Blue, But It's a Good Thing!

Time for a Hall Bathroom update! The Hall Bath is the main level's main bathroom for the main living area.  It's also attached to the second bedroom on the main level, with a pocket door. In this room, we decided to open up the space by adding a clear glass standing shower, as opposed to the opaque shower that was there before.  We also reduced the size of the vanity that was in there previously, again to add to the open space and "less cramped" feel. Here's a photo of the first steps towards a finish product...

Tile going in - shower and on the floor.

Fast forward to the tile install finishing, and we're up to paint! For this room, I wanted to keep it light and bright (again to make it feel larger), so I went with a lighter paint color in addition the white tile on the wall. "Tradewind" is the name of the shade of blue we chose to go with (hence the "Blue" reference in the post title).  here's a look at how things started to come together with some paint on the walls...

Hall Bath with tile finished, grout done, and paint on the wall! (Keep in mind there's still a horrid yellow light bulb in there.)

Now that the paint was up and the tile was finished, it was time to install the toilet, vanity and shower glass walls. Flash forward again to having all those things installed!

Vanity now in place!

Toilet and Glass Shower Walls/Door installed!

You can definitely see the difference in paint color with the light turned off in the bottom two photos as opposed to the one up above that had the yellow overhead light on.

Here's on more look at the bathroom in it's almost finished state!

Again, the paint changes with the lights on.

So that's where things stand for now.  There's still odds and ends to finish in this room, but as you can see it's really starting to come together - Wah Hoo!