By admin 
Well, I didn’t get a single thing done in my walk-in closet this weekend. It’s a holiday weekend here in the U.S., and for a change, I put absolutely no pressure on myself to get things done, and I did so with zero guilt. I spent my weekend sitting at my desk in the studio (my favorite place in our house) updating the house tour page on my blog. So if you want see all of the befores and afters of every room in our house in one place, or get paint color info, you can check out that page.
And I hadn’t even planned on being here this morning. Since it’s a holiday, I had planned on spending this holiday sleeping in, followed by a nice breakfast and maybe watching a movie with Matt. But I was awakened just before 6:00am by loud thunder, bright lightening, and loads of rain pounding on the windows as a thunderstorm rolled through. So I got up and went back to my happy place.
I’ve officially become a morning person, which is so strange. All of my adult life, I’ve been a night owl. I could stay up until 2:00am or later and had a hard time making myself to go to bed. Then morning would come, and I’d struggle so much to get my day started. But over this last year, I’ve learned that my favorite time of day is actually early morning, before the sun comes up, when the house is dark, the neighborhood is quiet and still, Matt is still sleeping, and I get an hour or two at my desk, with Cooper curled up at my feet, while I sit under the soft glowing light of the pendant light above my desk. I actually look forward to it every single night when I go to bed. Who have I become? 😀
Anyway, this morning during those dark, quiet hours at my desk, I played around with some different colors for my closet island. I had planned on painting it the same color as the cabinets — Sherwin Williams Billowy Blue. I even bought the paint for it since I had run out of paint while painting the cabinets. But several people have suggested painting it an accent color.
At first, I kind of recoiled at the idea because I thought an accent color would compete with the wallpaper. But this morning, I started considering it more seriously simply because I think it might actually highlight the wallpaper rather than compete with it. So using my photo editor, I picked out some colors from the main large flowers in the wallpaper and tested them out on a very rough mockup of the island.
First, here’s what Billowy Breeze would look like. Ignore the gray outlines. I literally used a line drawing of the island for the mockup. The actual island won’t have any gray on it.
But here’s a sampling of the colors that I picked out from those large pink flowers. First up is a pink that looks like it has just a touch of purple in it…
I don’t know, y’all. I may love an accent color after all! And since this is a walk-in closet, it doesn’t have to be too serious, right? I can have a little fun with it. And of course, it’s just paint. If I don’t like it, I can always go back to Billowy Breeze. Should I try out one of these accent colors? And keep in mind that the countertop will be a faux marble, so it will be mostly white. And then I’ll have the white flowery chandelier above the island. I think I’m leaning towards an accent color now!
Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.