Painting Stripes In Our Foyer

 

I never know if I should call this space the foyer (that seems so formal), the entryway, or maybe now it’s the “piano room".  Either way, it got striped.

 

 

 

Sherwin-Williams offered to send me paint for one of  my projects around the same time that we bought our piano (from Craigslist).  So, I decided that it was a great time to give this whole wall a little facelift. 

 

 

 

 

Since I was working with a pretty traditional piano and front door, I thought bold stripes would be a good contrast. 

 

 

 

 

 

I used the same colors I’ve been using around the rest of our house:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve been using their HGTV line but decided to try the Emerald paint this time around.  It was seriously the most odorless paint I’ve used, which was good because I was painting over the course of a couple of days right in the middle of the house with the kids running around*.   (My husband even commented several times that he couldn’t smell it.)  It also seemed to go on a little thicker.  In fact, I only painted one coat of the white. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also changed out the bird prints for botanicals (taken from an old book I found at the flea market last year) and sprayed the frames gold so they would stand out against the stripes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(For help with the striping process, I referred to my old post from when we painted stripes in the last house.)

 

*Although Sherwin-Williams supplied the paint, the opinions in this post are 100% mine.

 

 

Do you have any painting projects planned?