The studio’s actual progress has been a little behind lately. I’ve spent a lot of time doing things not related to home since last Friday, but I have three full days of uninterrupted work and want to get a good deal done. But I have a lot of things spinning around in my head about the studio. And I think I’m getting a little closer to narrowing down some of the decisions I’ve been struggling with.
First, let’s talk about paint colors for studio cabinets. I told you guys a few days ago that I went to the hardware store looking for paint colors and they didn’t even come close to what I was looking for. The colors ranged from too purple to too pink, but what I needed was something in between.
But a few days ago, when I went to Lowe’s (I don’t think I’ve ever bought paint from Lowe’s), there were two colors that just might be perfect. Both are HGTV Sherwin Williams colors. The darker one is called Tuberose and the lighter one on the right is called Jaipur Pink.
Here are some close-ups of them. It’s hard to tell when standing alone, but it’s a little purple. And it seems to be just the right amount of purple without actually reading it as purple.
Here are the colors from the HGTV Home by Sherwin Williams website. Jaipur Pink on the left and Tuberose on the right.
I really hope one of them works because I don’t want to custom cabinet colors.
Moving on to the floor, I finally marked all the painted checkerboard floor designs, taped off the white squares and was ready to paint. If everything goes according to plan, the floor should be finished by tomorrow morning.
And about yesterday’s post about perfectionism and how it’s affecting me, it numbed me for at least 30 minutes (maybe 45 or more) while I sat on the floor listening. I wanted to show you exactly what caused it. While avoiding the floor and scrolling through Instagram. It was this 3/8 inch difference. The distance from the wall to the first point of the floor design on this side of the case opening is 9 inches…
To the right of the case opening the distance is 8-5/8 inches…
Perhaps to some people, the anxiety, worry, and dread of a 3/8 inch measurement may seem very silly. This measurement will never be noticed by the overwhelming majority of people. (For the record, I didn’t know what the measurements would be at the time, but I knew it wasn’t perfect. In my head, it could have been 1 inch or 1.5 inch. No.) But as I explained yesterday, it is the effect of perfectionism. It’s not fun and it doesn’t give you peace of mind. But I finally got up and decided to keep working. I made it through and I got through it. Once over that hill my mind relaxed, the fear left me and I can now proceed to the painting phase of the project in peace.
Well, in the bathroom, I think I’ll try to devise a wall design. The more I look at it, the more I think it’s the yellow tiles that I need to go to. By replacing the accent tiles with white, I think the wall design will have a softer impression.
I’m still not sure if it works well because I need to change the vanity color. It’s also possible that the colors in your wall design are too bold.
But you’ll see below that there’s a big difference between the bolder colors, the original direction I was going in the studio, and the softer pink, which is the new direction I’m going. The color of the vanity looks a lot like the vanity in the hallway, but it looks very orange compared to the pink I’m considering for the cabinets in my studio. By comparison, the new paint sample has a distinct purple touch.
And finally, several people suggested using a flower mural on the back door ceiling because wallpapering the walls was too expensive for our budget.
I like the idea of a wallpapered ceiling, but I think the ceiling is too high for that. I think the ceiling is about 11 or 12 feet high, but you can’t see it unless you’re standing right next to the back door or cased opening. So, even though he’s not 100% on board with the idea, he loves the idea of wallpapering the ceiling.
Another reader suggestion that really appeals to me is to stuff these walls with my own art and craftsmanship.
(This is an old photo. The floor is now primed and painted, with the white areas taped and ready to be painted.)
I came up with the idea of making a number of resin petri dishes in colors that coordinated with the colors of my studio and using them on the walls in a loose ‘floating bubble’ design similar to how I hang pottery birds in the corners. That was it. on the living room wall…
…or when I hung the plates in Cassandra’s dining room many months ago. (Wow, that was 12 years ago!)
But you get the point. It’s that random floating/drifting design I’m talking about as opposed to my standard “everything symmetrical and square” design that I’m generally so drawn to.
So I’ve narrowed my back entry options down to these two. Either wallpaper the ceiling and paint the walls in a single color, or paint the walls in a single color and use something like Resin Petri’s “floating bubble” design all over the walls.
Things are going well and I hope to achieve a lot on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
In Addicted 2 Decorating, I share my DIY and decorating journey of modifying and decorating a 1948 Fixer upper that my husband Matt and I purchased in 2013. Matt does most of her work because she has MS and she cannot do physical labor. I do my own housework. You can learn more about me here.
