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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Wasteless Wednesday-Accent Walls

Remember that FREE PAINT offer a couple weeks ago from Glidden? My chocolate leather brown was delivered UPS right to my door. I was sooo excited!
You know when you get free paint you have to get started immediately! So let me show you what I did.

An accent wall! I've been admiring this on blogs, decorating shows and magazines. I did it I painted my first accent wall. It adds depth to the room. I love it and the best part it was FREE!!!
Would you join me in the journey of my living room..... noticed I changed the black frame to dark cherry stained frame. I think I am over my paint everything black stage.

No drapes and no balance. This room had me so frustrated!
See my old fan, and a hodge podge of decor. In it's yellow glory when we first purchased the house!

Whew, I am almost done. Any ideas what I can put on my chocolate walls?

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11 comments:

Amber Dupree said...

It looks beautiful.

I need to package you up and bring you to my house.

I'm not kidding.

Alicia {Murry Mayhem} said...

Love it! I got my free paint yesterday too! I already started my project with it! I figured I would never get the paint, but was SO shocked when it arrived!

Heidi said...

love the chocolate walls! I just painted an accent wall in my house too and LOVE the impact it made. It's crazy how just a little pop of color changes everything. Can't wait for my paint to get here!

Emily said...

I can't believe you did the entire wall with the sample. I can't wait for mine to come!

Anonymous said...

LOVE those chocolate walls!! I'm like you, I have all black accents in my house, mainly black picture frames. All frames HAVE to be black! And my ceiling fans and curtain rods are dark cherry. How do I get out of the BLACK????? Ha Ha. You do so good at this re=decorating!! I love seeing it all.

Jenny said...

It looks so good! I need some decorating stuff ideas...i really like the 'stuff' on your walls etc...i seem to have an ode' to Bella and need to replace the pictures with more 'stuff'!

Aimee said...

That looks really good, Jen. I got my paint, but I haven't painted anything yet!

Karyn said...

I love the large star in one of the older pictures-do you still have it? Could you paint it to match your lamp shades or maybe white to match your shutters? A mirror could also go...
Blessings!

Milk & Cookie Party said...

Got our sample today. Have no idea what we will paint as I need lots of paint!

Black paint success story- bought a second hand table for $3, painted it black and sold it for $25 on craigslist. Black still sells.

Your room looks very lovely. You have great ideas.

American Homemaker said...

I love the brown! I did a dark brown accent wall in my last house and LOVED it!

Free paint rocks :)

dustyperle said...

I found you through thrifty decor chicks before and after party and just kept scrolling. I love the look of your blog and the name and subtitle is awesome. Thanks for sharing your great ideas tips!