The Power of a Accent Feature Wall

Here are just a few pic's of some of our Paint and Wallpaper before and afters. The top picture is of our kitchen, we painted one of the largest walls in kitchen in Benjamin Moore Brown Sugar.

The Brown really makes Chalkboard Wall Art Pop.

In case you missed yesterday's post on the Master Bedroom transformation.  We did the headboard wall in a pretty graphic trellis patterned wallpaper. The taupe, white and brown wallpaper really made the linen headboard pop. The wallpaper is Brewster's Amir Brown Ironwork #283-62944.

This picture doesn't give this wallpaper justice. It is absolutely beautiful in person! I originally saw this in a bridal store when I was shopping for my wedding dress. It is by Blue Mountain Wallpaper called Silk Aqua Damask.

Here we painted our fireplace wall as the feature wall to make our newly added bookshelves stand out. It was a subtle taupey / olive green colour. See more about our bookcases here.

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Tweaks on how to Personalize a Builder Home on a budget!

This was my First home. It was ALL ABOUT tweaking what I had and hitting up every possible Thrift store to make my new house a HOME! I have Always been the type of person who wanted things done yesterday and this adventure was going to be no different. The first thing I tackled was Paint! Never under estimate the power of a little paint... 

I painted the tiny dining room Brown Sugar by Benjamin Moore.The vintage buffet and dining table were painted BM Ferret Brown and sprayed handles Chrome For a more modern look. 

For the Master bedroom I spray painted my childhood bedroom furniture 'Antique White' and painted white stripes over the builder beige painted walls. 

For the bathroom first I splurged on neutral wallpaper....I just did the 1 main accent wall in white and beige Damask.. One because it was quite graphic and I didn't want it to be too overwhelming, and secondly because it was too expensive to buy more walls. ( It was my first time wallpaper.. and an hour after wallpapering.. I went upstairs to find my wallpaper on the FLOOR!!!) Note to self and everyone reading... PRIME newly drywalled walls BEFORE adding wallpaper. So back to Benjamin Moore store I went. I took off the bathroom vanity/Cabinet Doors and sanded, primed and painted them in a off white paint. (Originally they were a light natural oak.) When I originally picked out my options at building design centre I went tooooo neutral.. and all you ended up seeing in my bathroom was BEIGE! beige walls, beige cabinets, beige counters..yikes! so I felt it needed to be lightened up a bit.) And it worked in my opinion. Lastly I tackled the builder mirror.. I was going to remove it but I had heard so many horror stories of the drywall being destroyed. So I decided to just add moulding and trim around what I had... The result is above.

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