Today I'm giving you a sneak peek at my laundry room makeover. It's nowhere near done, and I'm moving at a snail's pace, but I just wanted to share one wall because I'm loving it so much! And I think you need a sneak peek.
{Sorry for the terrible photo and lighting quality. There is no natural light in there, so I think I'm going to have to invest in this Neewer Flash for my non-lit interior photos. Promise they'll get better.}
My painted photo frame gallery wall was originally inspired by this beautiful thrifted frame wall by Tatertots and Jello. I love the emerald green she chose, but my colors in the laundry room are orange, turquoise and navy.
I went to my local Goodwill and in one fell swoop picked up all these different sized frames. I paid $30, which is more than I would probably spend if I went around really bargain hunting for frames. But I thought $30, plus the cost of a sample pot of paint, wasn't a bad price for filling a wall with pretty color.
{I took all of the backs off the frames and removed the glass. I'm kind of excited about having the glass handy, because I want to try my hand at building some of my own frames with pallets and barn wood I have.}
But it took me forever just to get these frames painted.
Do you ever get stuck on a project because you're not excited about it? I do all the time. I'll be working, working so hard on a project, and then BAM! I stop right in my tracks. I call this DIY Derail. It happens when I do something, don't like it, and then have to figure out how to fix it. Sometimes it takes weeks or even months to find a solution. But what I find is that as soon as I figure out what I love, I'm right back to it!
For example, these orange picture frames. They just weren't cutting it. I originally painted them with Rustoleum's orange spray paint. It was a beautiful color, but when I hung the frames on the wall, it was just too bright. Think University of Florida orange, which is a problem because I'm a University of Tennessee grad. Yikes! So, I tried toning them down with a homemade brown "glaze." Ha! You would laugh so hard. I mixed some brown craft paint with water and tried to "glaze" over glossy spray paint. It was a big, fat mess. And I tried to do it on a morning I was supposed to be packing for the lake. Oops! Not my best moment.
So, I "glazed" half of them and then let them sit for a while. I was still debating about whether this was really what I wanted.
And then …. a moment came when the clouds parted and I could hear the angels singing the Hallelujah Chorus.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hall-le-eh-lu-jah!!
This is a picture of a gorgeous coral frame wall. It's truly a beautiful coral, although Coach calls them pink. It is perfect! {The color is "Rejuvenate" by Sherwin Williams.}
Tobi Fairley – I think I need her photographer to come to my house!
I saw this photo late one night, and the morning couldn't get here fast enough. I rushed over to Sherwin Williams and bought a little sample pot of this beautiful paint. Love, love, love … swoon!
So now I think everything in this laundry room that could be painted has been painted at least twice. Whew. Major lesson in picking the right paint color first.
Do you love them? I will probably change out the pictures in them periodically. But I'm going for a coastal vibe in my laundry room, so that means fun beach pictures. For now they have beachy pictures from our various travels. I figured I might as well feel like I'm on vacation when I'm doing laundry. It might make me want to actually do laundry? Nah, probably not, but at least it'll make it more palatable.
Oh, and I attached the starfish to the wall with hot glue. I don't plan on taking them down for a very long time, so we'll see how it holds up. And hopefully it won't rip too much off the wall when I do want to take them down.
You also may have noticed my board and batten treatment and hooks on the wall. I love it, but it's not quite finished, and I'll talk more about that when I do my laundry room reveal. I also painted the door to the garage Hale Navy, just like my front door.
What do you think of my painted frame gallery?
Have you ever painted one color and immediately gone back and repainted it? We'll call it painter's remorse.
