progress.

so, i ended up falling in love with

"providence blue 1636"

i loved it on the walls in my room, and really

fell in love when i saw the above image which i found here.

i knew i wanted something blue and

moody and a little "washed out" looking,

and dark...but not TOO dark.

i had a few requests for "before" pictures of this 

bedroom turned office and now on it's way to

a relaxing den...

 are you madly in love with the mauve wallpaper??

yeah, i thought so.

 i was totally prepared for HOURS of scraping and peeling, 

but the wallpaper 

LITERALLY came off in sheets! i could hardly believe my luck.

it was actually FUN to rip off.

 the kiddos thought it was almost

as much fun as i did...

 and here is the wall on it's way to being finished.

so, i wouldn't say that i am a BIG fan of "faux" finishes,

but i knew that this room needed it.

why?

ummm....

because maybe although the wallpaper came off really easily 

there might have possibly been a lot 

of wallpaper paste left behind that possibly

 maybe i didn't really kinda feel like probably spending

the next 5 days of my life scraping off from the walls. 

maybe.

so maybe i kinda came up with this

faux finish to possibly maybe disguise the

texture of the wallpaper paste and

save myself from like 200 hours of scraping.

maybe.

don't judge.

  i used a technique that i have used before...

it is the easiest thing in the world.

you just take a wallpaper paste brush,

and make a cross-hatch pattern across the wall. 

 since i already had a quart of

"knoxville gray" and "blue spruce",

i just mixed them together with a small

amount of glazing medium and got  to work,

applying several coats on top of the "providence" blue.

 i LOVE the way the finished wall looks!

it has this kind of dark denim look

which will look great with the

other items that will go in the room.

one of those items is this woven bamboo

blind that i bought at kmart for $10.

i have been lugging it around with me 

for several years, and it just happens to

fit the one window in this room.

yay!

this lamp is also one of those items.

 i have big plans for this $3 thrift store lamp

 which i will share soon....

the plan involves some gold leaf,

a trip to the lamp repair store to cut down the

throat and an anthopologie inspired lampshade makeover.

i hope it turns out as fabulous as i want it to!