Wednesdays - What Color is That??

Stacey Tannehill painted this adorable bedroom for her daughter Lauren. Stacey describes the process, "After looking at a room we liked with similar designs on the wall (the flyer was from home depot), we then hand drew all the designs onto transparency sheets (clear plastic sheets of paper). Then we used an overhead projector to transfer them to the walls. I also traced one of the butterflies off of her bedroom set and transferred it to the wall as well.
To get started we painted the walls with "Bed of Roses" by Behr. Then after tracing the designs onto the walls we painted the tallest light pink (looks almost white) ferns with "Rose Fantasy" by Behr. The really dark purple designs (some people think it looks brown in the pics) were painted with "Delicious Berry" by Behr. The butterflies were done with the same colors as well.
We then added trim base board which we stained to match her furniture and added her name which was painted with the same colors above, above the toddler bed.
We picked the colors to coordinate with her bedding and room accessories. Obviously this could be done in any variety of colors and still look great!"
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Wednesdays - What Color is That??

Deciding what color to paint a room is a daunting and confusing process. Isn't it much easier to choose a paint color based on what you have already seen painted in a room? So to help with this task - we are introducing "What Color is That??" We will be posting photos of kids rooms and providing the name and brand of the paint that was used to paint the room. Now this doesn't necessarily mean that painting your room the exact color as seen in the photo will make it look exactly like that room - but it will give you a starting point. There are so many factors that come into play with colors - lighting, room size, ceiling height, floor color, is the room facing north or south, etc? Also, on-screen color representations may vary from actual paint colors. Every computer monitor will display these colors differently - but remember it's a start in the right direction.

This surf shack room is painted with Benjamin Moore Swiss Blue 1B-815 paint. Check out more photos of this room here.