Gray Doesn’t Have to Be Dreary

I had friends coming from Chicago for a visit a couple weekends ago and was in a scramble to get the new place ‘visitor ready.’ The living room was pretty much complete, the hallways had done away with the awful sky blue and in its place a nice crisp ultra white paint was freshly applied. Amazing what a difference a change of paint color can do to a place. The one thing I just couldn’t bare to live in any longer was the mint green color in the bedroom that clashed so horrendously with our brand new CB2 bright yellow quilted comforter. My eyes could no longer look at the atrocity, and there was no way I was going to force my friends to look at it, either. After all, what are friends for, right? Don’t remember what the bedroom looked like before? Take a gander here and here.

We definitely wanted the bright yellow quilt to be the stand out feature of the room so we decided on using a cement gray color for the accent wall. There’s just something about gray and yellow that I love. It’s a fabulous color combination. We obviously decided against painting the whole room gray because, well, that would be a bit depressing and I think the winters in Virginia provide us with enough gray in our lives. The rest of the walls were painted the same ultra white that we used in the kitchen and hallway.

Now I’ve been absolutely dying to paint some interior doors in this place after seeing it done so wonderfully on a few blogs (inspiration coming from here) and since the current color of the closets, what I liked to refer to as “stained teeth yellow” wasn’t really meshing well with the white, I thought oh what the hell. Let’s paint the doors gray too! It’s probably one of my favorite parts of the whole room. It just gives it so much instant character and it’s an easy way to bring more life into the room.

Isn’t that piggy bank adorbs!? $10 bucks at Target people! And of course, by Javi’s decree, no room in this house is complete without a little splash of Star Wars.