In a few months' time, we would have reached our MOP (Minimum Occupation Period). *OMG* Next year would be the 5th year since we've got our place. Time really flies, doesn't it?
So, after our vacation in Boracay at 'The Lind' hotel, I was very inspired to paint our room. I liked the color palate and design of the new hotel and this darker blue-grey color along their corridors. I liked it enough to persuade the husband to paint our place together.
The main colors were greys, turquoise and blue-grey, I really liked the style of the hotel.
So, we went to buy paint and brushes and spent a few weekends on painting our home. The husband made some not-very-functional newspaper hats. To small for me, we didn't use them.
Initially, we only wanted to paint the master bedroom and one wall in the guest room. I wanted to paint a stripped wall, that would also look great when the room is converted into a nursery *someday*. Alas, the husband suggested chevron stripes instead, knowing that I liked them more - BIG MISTAKE. Let's just say that chevron stripes are extremely tiring and time-consuming to paint. We spent at least 2 days on that wall alone.
First, you had paint a base coat, the lighter color of the chevron strips. Then, you need to measure the walls and decide on the dimensions of your chevon stripes to make it fit nicely to your wall. Then, we used cardboard to make a few of these shapes as stencils to mark the walls with pencil and tape.
We took hours to finish and align this wall, and we drew arrows to remind us which area needed paint.
Here's the completed guest room with our pull-out bed:
By the time we painted our master bedroom, it was a breeze. We finished in a few hours with all that taping, moving furniture and 3 coats of paint. We used Dulux Connecticut Blue for our master bedroom, a lot darker but I quite like it though it did not exactly turned out as what I envisioned (and there's quite a few other shades of blue and greys that I liked too).
Here's the 'before' photo:
And here's the new color:
Oh, and I received a set of bedside tables as my birthday present this year too! We got rid of the wobbly Taobao ones we got when we moved in and upgraded to these beautiful solid teak wood ones from Second Charm. The husband said 'May our marriage be as solid as our bedside tables!'.
So, after our vacation in Boracay at 'The Lind' hotel, I was very inspired to paint our room. I liked the color palate and design of the new hotel and this darker blue-grey color along their corridors. I liked it enough to persuade the husband to paint our place together.
The main colors were greys, turquoise and blue-grey, I really liked the style of the hotel.
So, we went to buy paint and brushes and spent a few weekends on painting our home. The husband made some not-very-functional newspaper hats. To small for me, we didn't use them.
Initially, we only wanted to paint the master bedroom and one wall in the guest room. I wanted to paint a stripped wall, that would also look great when the room is converted into a nursery *someday*. Alas, the husband suggested chevron stripes instead, knowing that I liked them more - BIG MISTAKE. Let's just say that chevron stripes are extremely tiring and time-consuming to paint. We spent at least 2 days on that wall alone.
First, you had paint a base coat, the lighter color of the chevron strips. Then, you need to measure the walls and decide on the dimensions of your chevon stripes to make it fit nicely to your wall. Then, we used cardboard to make a few of these shapes as stencils to mark the walls with pencil and tape.
We took hours to finish and align this wall, and we drew arrows to remind us which area needed paint.
Tadah! After taping, paint the areas that should be painted, remove the tape and touch-up.
Here's the completed guest room with our pull-out bed:
By the time we painted our master bedroom, it was a breeze. We finished in a few hours with all that taping, moving furniture and 3 coats of paint. We used Dulux Connecticut Blue for our master bedroom, a lot darker but I quite like it though it did not exactly turned out as what I envisioned (and there's quite a few other shades of blue and greys that I liked too).
Here's the 'before' photo:
And here's the new color:
Oh, and I received a set of bedside tables as my birthday present this year too! We got rid of the wobbly Taobao ones we got when we moved in and upgraded to these beautiful solid teak wood ones from Second Charm. The husband said 'May our marriage be as solid as our bedside tables!'.
