Monday, June 8, 2009

NEW Home Makeover - part 1

Ok, this may come as a shock to most of you, so brace yourselves. We loved our red wall in our last house. But we couldn't decide to do it again here in our new home or not. We wanted to do an accent wall in the living room again, so we toyed around with reds, greens, and greys. But we couldn't decide on a color for our living room. Then Kyle said, "Why don't we just paint an accent wall black! All of the light fixtures in the house are black, the kitchen, the stair-railing, etc... are all black" I said, "Are you serious?" So, needless to say... we now have a black wall.
Our first house, the first wall we paint here, is BLACK! I think we have lost our minds. What do you think?
Below is the prep-work for the paint. I taped the bottom and Kyle taped the ceiling. (9ft. ceilings)
Here is the first few strokes of paint on the wall.... wow. What did we get ourselves into?Here is the finished wall.... Ta Da....
Now the plan is to do bright RED accents in the room. We are going to put small tables on both sides of the fireplace, then put bright red lamps on the tables, with some shiny red vases on the mantle. Two matching pieces of artwork on either side of the tv too. What do you think? Any good ideas of home decor? Stores? art? Help!

9 comments:

Julie said...

Wow! Black? OMG! I totally love it! I know where you can get some great tall lamps, and they have a red lamp shade on it with a black tall base. I want one so bad. They are at Target. Those would look awesome. Now I want a black wall

CaradonandtheBoys! said...

I think it looks really good! Can't wait to see pictures of the completed room!

Wendy said...

That looks awesome! I love it.

sachiko said...

I think it looks really good with the fireplace. You brave, brave guys!

Party of Five said...

I am in aggreement with the others- it looks great! You guys are so creative.

HaYn Mama said...

looks great and i like your ideas, stick with your gut feelings

Wendy said...

I am totally surprised by how fantastic it looks. I love it!!

Roberts Family said...

I have to say when you were talking a black wall I was thinking "What?" But it turned out great! Looks really nice!

AmbertheGreat said...

I love it!