As you can tell from the title of this post, I’ve made my decision on the walls for the bathroom, and I chose one of the painted designs. It really came down to the wallpaper with the trim in the corners and the vertical striped design. Those two options were so close in my mind, not because I liked them equally, but because the wallpaper would have been so much easier. But I really liked the striped design better.
So in the end, I flipped a coin. I literally let a quarter decide the design of the bathroom walls for me. Heads, wallpaper with trim. Tails, stripes. And tails won. So I’m gearing up for a lot of taping and painting, and I’m aiming for something that looks like this…
It was very interesting reading through the comments on yesterday’s post. What really stuck out to me is how people perceive color differently based on the design. There were a few people who said something like, “I like the vertical striped design, but I would like them better if you use the colors of the squares. Those seem like softer colors.” That’s not anyone’s exact quote, but it’s the general thought that several people expressed.
Interestingly, these two design have the exact same colors. I used my photo editing software and copied the colors directly from the square wallpaper and dropped those colors into the stripes. But for some reason, when those exact colors are arranged into stripes, some people perceived them as being different colors.
Anyway, that’s just an aside, but I thought it was very interesting.
So after the coin made the decision for me that I was going to be painting the design on the wall, I almost grabbed the wallpaper and headed out the door to Sherwin Williams to buy all of the paint. But then I had a moment of clarity before I even got out the door. One repeat of this wallpaper has 35 different colors in it, and I want to use every single one of these colors. But at $11.99 each, those 35 paint samples plus tax would have come to just over $450. That’s way more than what I wanted to spend on paint.
I decided that the only way this would work is if I buy a few colors and mix the rest of them myself. I’ve had plenty of experience with mixing my own paint. If you’ll remember, that’s exactly what I did when I painted this cabinet in my studio.
I did NOT buy 72 paint samples for that cabinet. I bought the main colors, and then I did a whole lot of mixing, testing, re-mixing, and testing again to get the rest of the colors.
And now I need to do that again for the walls in the bathroom. So I took one repeat of the wallpaper and started grouping the colors together in color families. I ended up with 10 different groupings. And then for each group, I chose the single color that I’d actually need to purchase to use as the jumping off point for mixing the rest.
I know that picture is kind of hard to see since I couldn’t get the wallpaper curls at the top and bottom, so here’s a better view of how I grouped the colors.
And then here are the colors that I decided to purchase.
So that’s how I went about this whole process of deciding which colors to purchase, and which colors to mix myself. I ended up buying ten of the colors from the wallpaper, and then I also bought a white and a black to use for mixing. That saved me a lot of money going from 35 samples to 12. But before I can even get to painting my walls, I have a lot of measuring, marking, taping, and mixing to do! It’ll be a fun, color-filled weekend. I need to find a really good podcast to listen to. If y’all have suggestions, I’d love to hear them! I love true crime podcasts, but none of the gory stuff. 😀
Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.
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