Studio Updates: Flooring Upgrades, Bathroom Designs, Cabinet Paint Colors, and Entryway Remodeling Options From Reader Suggestions

First, let’s talk about paint color for studio cabinets. I told you a few days ago that I went to Home Depot to look for paint colors, and they didn’t have anything close to what I was looking for. Their colors jump from very purple to very pink, but what I need is somewhere in between.

But a few days ago, I went to Lowe’s (I don’t think I’ve ever bought paint at Lowe’s), and they had two colors that were probably perfect! They are both HGTV Sherwin Williams colors. The darker one is called Tuberose, and the lighter one on the right is called Jaipur Pink.

Here is a close up of them. It’s hard to tell if they stand alone, but they have a touch of purple. And it seems to be the right amount of purple without actually reading as purple.

Moving on to the floor, I finally got all the design for painted checkerboard floor marked, and I’m ready to tape the white squares and paint them. If all goes as planned, I should have the floor finished by the end of the day tomorrow.

And about yesterday’s post about perfectionism and how it affects me, I want to show you exactly what caused me to be paralyzed for at least 30 minutes (maybe more than 45 minutes) while I sat on the floor and watched “real life” while I dodged the floor and scrolled through Instagram. This is a 3/8-inch difference. The distance from the wall to the first point of the floor design on this side of the cased opening is nine inches…

While to the right of the cased opening, the distance is 8 5/8 inches…

Now about the bathroom, I can try to do the wall design. The more I looked at it, the more I thought it was the yellow tile that needed to go. I think going with the accent tile by replacing it with white really makes the wall design look softer.

I’m still not sure if I can do this because the vanity needs to be recolored. and the colors of the wall design can still be very bold.

But you can see below the big difference between the original direction I went in the studio, with bolder colors, and the new direction I’m going, with softer pinks. The vanity color, like the hallway bathroom vanity, looks too orange compared to the pinks I’m considering for the studio cabinets. And in comparison, you can really see the touch of purple in the new paint samples.

And finally, many people suggested that I use the flower mural on the ceiling of the back entry because wallpapering the walls is too expensive for my budget.

I like the idea of ​​a wallpapered ceiling, but I wonder if the ceiling is too high for that. I think the ceiling was about 11 or 12 feet high, and unless you were standing in the back passage or very close to the cased opening, the ceiling wasn’t even visible. So I’m not 100% sold on the idea, but I like the idea of ​​a wallpapered ceiling.

Another reader suggestion that really resonated with me was loading the walls with my own art and crafty creations.

(That’s an old photo. The floor is now primed and painted, and ready for the white areas to be patched and painted.)

One thing I’m thinking about is making several resin petri dishes in colors that match the colors of the studio, and using them on the walls in a loose “floating bubbles” design, similar to the way I hanging ceramic birds in the corner. living room wall…

…or how I hung the plates in Cassandra’s dining room MANY moons ago. (Wow, 12 years ago!)

But you get the point. That random floating/drifting design I was talking about, as opposed to my standard “all symmetrical and square” design that I usually gravitate towards.

So I narrowed down the options for the back entry to two – wallpapered the ceiling with a solid color on the walls, or painted the walls a solid color and used something like a “floating bubbles” design in resin petries throughout the walls.

Things are moving along, and I hope to do a lot on Thursday, Friday and Saturday!