Creative Interior Specialists

There are those who love to paint, and there are those who hate it. I belonged to the latter group. In our last house I had decided to paint our bedroom. I’m one of those who will stand with brush in hand and just look at the wall. I don’t know how long I had been standing with the roller and looking up at the ceiling when all of a sudden I heard, “Mom, gimme that!” Our youngest daughter had come home and found me, I’m sure, looking rather pathetic. She grabbed the roller from me and had the ceiling painted in no time, then began to help me paint the walls. After that, I painted the bathroom. Last fall we had the interior painted because the mere thought of painting myself would have been like a punishment. I have to admit that after painting the mantle and kitchen, I found that my problem all along has been my fear of making mistakes. Mistakes in painting only means painting over where you messed up.

Last fall I decided I wanted a red dining room. It took I don’t know how many coats of paint with a lot of touch up after the painters were gone. I had help moving the furniture into the dining room from the garage. The consensus was that the room was rather small to have the hutch and server across from each other with the table and chairs inbetween. I was never happy with the dining room until I found I couldn’t keep the red color with the red in the kitchen. Since I’m now a HUGE fan of painting, I decided to repaint (much to my husband’s dismay) the dining room in the Travertine to go with the rest of the main floor, and move the hutch and server to where I originally wanted them to go. I think you’ll have to agree with me, that the new color and furniture arrangement makes the room look brighter and more spacious. You’ll see how the room looked in the red, and how it looks today.

You can see how the cherry furniture doesn’t really show up that well against the red. The room seems dark and closed in. There is too much wall space on the server side causing the room to be unbalanced. It doesn’t have an elegance to it as it should for a formal dining room.

The Travertine color makes the room brighter and shows off the cherry furniture. The light fixture now blends in better with the walls and table runners. The flowers add some color and by hanging the mirror vertically, the room now takes on more of an elegant look. It has now been transformed into a formal dining room.

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