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I have been dying to makeover our dining room for like 50
years.
Ok slight exaggeration, but the red wall had well and truly
done it’s time and needed to be retired. We have had it for at least 7 years
which was probably at least 3 years too long in my opinion. Once upon a time I loved it, a time when I
was infatuated with burnt rustic colours. However these days I have been having
an affair with bright colours and I have been desperately itching to attack that
red wall with a bucket of paint.
Problem was I couldn’t decide on a colour.
Every time we went to the hardware store I would come home
with numerous paint swatches, most of which ended up being used as gift tags or
made into confetti. I just couldn't find THE colour, the colour that would
sweep me off my feet and make me fall madly in love.
Shaynna Blaze the Taubmans Brand Ambassador and Colour Creative Decorater came to the rescue with this advice for me;
"In my experience, I’ve
found that the secret to using colour successfully in the home is to make it
personal. Take the time to re-engage with
colour and find the hues that connect with you personally. It’s important to find colours that excite and
engage you as it’s you and your family that has to live with them. Start off by seeking inspiration for the
colour palette you want to create. This
inspiration could come from nature, your favourite colours, travel, animals,
your artworks and furniture and even the characteristics of your home. "
And so doing as I was told, I headed straight over to Pinterest for some inspiration. When I stumbled upon this picture I saw
stars.
THIS was it!
I had found the colour, my dream colour, but now what?
How does one even begin to figure out what that colour is or
how to match it from a picture on Pinterest?
It’s pretty easy when you know about one of the most awesome tools a home decorator
can ever have in their bag of tricks – the Taubmans
Paint your own Room app on their website.
First of all you upload your inspiration picture and the app
will match the various colours from your picture to a colour from the Taubmans range.
Then you can use the app to virtually paint your room in
your colour choices, so effectively you get to try before you buy and be
confident about your colour choice and how it is going to look right in your
room.
Here’s my room experiment.
After I shared this on Facebook, the vote was a unanimous "yes" to the jade colour I had fallen for
and so the decision was made – Jericho Jade it was.
Now anyone who knows me in person knows that I am not the
most patient person in this world *cough
cough understatement*. When I want to do something, like rearrange the furniture
in the house, I usually want to do it like Right
Now! The fact that it is frequently after midnight when I decide to do it is
just a mere detail.
This project was no different in its urgency and so the
paint was ordered and the next available weekend was locked away to carry out the
transformation.
I should mention about now that I am a MASSIVE The Block
fan, and the whole weekend I was painting I was also pretending I was on actually a contestant on The Block.
Hey whatever floats your boat right?
I was worried about the red paint showing through so I gave
the wall two coats of Taubmans primer before taking to the wall with another
two coats of the Jericho Jade.
Add in the accidental chairs and a
couple of new DIY neon artworks to compliment the wall colour and Wham Bam
thank you Dan – the makeover was il-finito.
Umm yes in case you are wondering – those dining chairs are
the ones I accidentally clicked buy now on and then also just happened to accidentally
enter my credit card details to confirm my purchase… oops, my bad!
Are you feeling all inspired now to tackle your own
makeover?
I hope so, because now would be the perfect time to tell you
about this…
As an added incentive to get you to pick up a paintbrush and
treat your home to a makeover, Taubmans are offering over a $150,000 in prizes
including $500 Bunnings vouchers for the first 100 entries. And if that’s still
not enough to get you moving – how about $12,500 Major cash prizes and a grand
prize of a photo shoot and magazine spread of the winning interior and exterior
makeovers.
All you need to do to enter is;
- · Register at www.taubmans.com.au
- · Buy a can of Taubmans Endure from Bunnings and keep your receipt
- · Paint either an interior or exterior wall of your home, at least two square meters in size, using Taubmans Endure
- · Upload a before and after photo of your painting project to complete your entry, by 26 April 2014
So come on my
fellow block heads, find your colour and start painting! As for me I’m off to
admire my new wall for 759th time and figure out which is the next
room to makeover.
Let’s have one more
look at the before and after shall we? Yep we shall!
*Taubmans Endure is
the only interior paint with a lifetime guarantee. On top of that it has the
Nanoguard technology to provide maximum protection and superior washability. Now
that’s clever paint!
Do you have a room needs a little makeover in your house?
Are you brave with colour?