orange paint! by orange

If you've been reading the blog you know that violet and I love decorating and re-decorating. Whether it be a new pillow, a new throw rug, a chalkboard wall or a new duvet. Well this weekend with the upcoming Seattle stay-cation the husband and I decided to purchase a new duvet (yay!!!) and some paint. Here are the grand purchases!

For the bedroom:

1. Marimekko Tamburiini Duvet
2. Patrice Sheets

1. Behr "startling orange" paint
2. Inspirational photo

With the paint kick, the husband and I talked up many ideas for using chalkboard paint. Here is what we decided on: a chalkboard large frame in our "family/hang out" room. Kind of like this photo:

Basically, we will paint part of our large wall with tinted green chalkboard paint, then buy or make a white frame to fit around the painted area. We are thinking about a 4x6 ft chalkboard area...




So we of course bought some of this:













Today we are working on putting all of this together! I'll show pictures once it is complete - cross your fingers!

school teacher. by orange

I think along with many other little girls, I grew up wanting to be a school teacher. Really because I loved chalkboards and chalk. I loved the sound that the chalk makes when writing on the board, I loved the cool chalk-holder my 2nd grade teacher had. The only part of chalk I didn't like was the feeling of chalk dust on my hands.

Recently, there is a craze going on with chalkboard paint. Oh how I want to get on this band wagon and paint a chalkboard somewhere in my house...unfortunately I haven't picked out where yet.

My chalkboard inspiration photos: