Hi Friends! Welcome to WEEK TWO of the One Room Challenge! Yahoo! Things were moving and shaking (aka scrambling and panicking) around here this past week, so I’m feeling good about what I got done. The bad news is that I am taking this entire week off to spend time at home with my family. Talk about opportune timing, right? The blog will go on as normal and you can join me at home in Louisiana on Instagram, but I won’t be here at home to actually get anything done in the room. hashtagthisisabadidea.
In case you missed WEEK ONE, here’s the plan:
…And here’s what I was up to this week!
I did some paint sampling and finally landed on my final two colors
-Sherwin Williams “Sea Salt” cut to 50%
-Farrow and Ball ” Pavillion Blue”
As you can see below, Sea Salt reads more ice blue on my walls looking too cold and Pavillion Blue has just a little too much of a green undertone. Needless to say, neither really work and I am back to the drawing board…suggestions welcome! I want something really light and more powdery blue than ice blue. Maybe I can try Sea Salt cut to 25%? Anyone done that?
Other details that made their way into the room over the week!
Our dressers came in!
We LOVE them and especially love the size of them for the room and flanking a big king bed. They are on major major sale right now if you’re in the market! Shop them HERE.
Bamboo Mirrors made their way up on top of the dressers and I love the height that they add.
New bedding also came in! I ordered some from THIS collection and some from THIS collection and plan to mix and match…any ideas as to how I’ll put it all together? 
Here’s the updated punch list:
Speaking of One Room Challenge’s, can I ask a HUGE favor?? One of my past ORC projects (the powder bath, below) is up for “Best Before and After” using adorne lighting!!! I can’t believe that I am a finalist and would so appreciate your vote! Pretty please! VOTE HERE!
Catch up with all of my previous challenges here:
Playroom // Living Room // Powder Bath // Guest Room
Now head over to check out what all of my friends have been up to this week!
Because it’s Awesome
Coco+Kelley
Design Darling
Design Indulgence
Design Manifest
Christine Dovey
The English Room
Vanessa Francis
Hi Sugarplum
Honey We’re Home
Jojotastic
The Pink Clutch
The Pink Pagoda
Simplified Bee
Style Your Senses
A Thoughtful Place
Thanks again for all of your support, I’m so glad you’re following along on this new Challenge!!!
xo-
water was clear, crys
#cutetex
Have you tried SW Comfort Gray? Doesn’t really look like it on the chip, but it reads as a pretty soft blue. So in love with those mirrors!
Try painting your sample on a white posterboard, too, leaving some white around the edges. Sampling new, light colors is SO hard on top of tan paint (lesson learned)!
I just voted for you. Next time I’m in your neighborhood you need to give me a tour of your home. I’m dying to see it!
Try Benjamin Moore Alaskan Husky – not too blue, not too grey, just right.
Agreed with Jen…the tan isn’t giving you a true read. Look at the SW strip with Halycon Green…that was the color of my last master bedroom. It was a great powdery gray/blue. You could lighten that quite a bit maybe. Enjoy your family time!!
Your room is coming along! I hope you work the paint color out … that is hard… I agree with Jennifer who recommended putting the paint samples on white poster board to get a better idea of how the paint will actually look on the walls. The mirrors and chests are beautiful! I see you are stumped for art work.. How about framing a piece of vintage wallpaper that has Asian pattern? I’ve seen that and it looks great.
Any whooo… Can’t wait to see the transformation!
Heading to vote for you now!
xo,
Ivy
my living room is matched to pale powder by farrow and ball…it might be just what you need! It has a slight green undertone at different times of the day and is beautiful!
What does it mean that you cut your paint color to 50%?
She means that she asked the paint store to put in only 50% of the pigment amount that the recipe calls for. It’s the same color, just 50% more white, if that makes sense. People who are very picky about color request this because the color one lighter on the chip is NOT precisely-the-same-color-but-lighter, even if it seems that way. Each color on a chip has a slightly different proportion of colored pigments, as well as being tinted lighter or shaded darker.
i love the selection you have for this room! so pretty and serene
Try BM Palladian Blue? I have used that in our master in our last two houses and it’s similar to the colors you are trying! The room is looking great!
I actually really love the F&B colour. Did you try FB Borrowed Light? Your moodboard is so pretty and those nightstands are amazing!!!!!
I second FB Borrowed Light! Can’t wait to see the room!
Love your mood board! This room is going to look amazing!!
Enjoy your time with your family. I think you are making great strides, and I love those mirrors. BTW, the vote link said it was closed?
The plans you have for this room are stunning, I am loving all of the gold accents! I am also taking part in the challenge as a guest and am redoing my boys’ bedroom. So excited to be doing it but nervous of the timeline, 6 weeks is not a lot of time!
I know this room is going to be fab!!! I agree with Christine too, try F&B Borrowed Light.
xoxo
cristin
Getting the right paint is so hard! But now that you have the dresser look at your paints against those, and maybe pull out the bedding you want to use to see how it all goes in the space.
Totally in love with this whole room! Great work!
Oh I just love those mirrors and the sneak peak of your dressers. No doubt it will be beautiful!
I haven’t read all the other comments, so at the risk of being redundant –
Your existing wall color appears to have a strong yellow undertone. I wonder whether that is making the SW color look as though it has more of a red undertone (by contrast) than it actually has. From others’ interiors that I have seen, I think Sea Salt has almost a green undertone – but, of course, you can never judge really accurately by pictures you see on the internet.
As far as what I have seen in person – I wanted a pale ice blue for my bathroom. For reference, the color I was picturing in my head was basically Behr’s Arctic Shadow, but that’s not what I bought; at the last minute, I read a post in which someone raved about Behr’s Fresh Day, and I bought that instead. When it went up I realized it wasn’t where I was aiming, but I realized I really loved it so I kept it (and bought more and painted my closet and my staircase that color, too). It is VERY pale, and has no noticeable red undertone, without being noticeably green either. I would call it a very pale powder blue, so it sounds like what you are describing, but I can’t be certain that the picture in your brain that goes with those words is the same as the one in mine :). It looks to me like daylight – just as the name suggests. It probably would appear less ghostly-pale painted in a whole large bedroom; my bathroom is quite small.
How AWESOME are those dressers! And I LOVE the paint – I think I need Sea Salt in my life. Lol Enjoy your trip!
I have used Alaskan Husky….it’s very pretty! Love those dressers. I saw them in the store a while back and thought what a great piece…..especially with those fabulous mirrors!
I had a little extra black added to Sea Salt which cut the ice-y feel. I think the black element was 50 and I had it increased to 55.
It’s coming along beautifully- I love the mirror details!! Good luck on the paint…perfect blues are so tricky!
Benjamin Moore Sea Haze