Recently we renovated our door. In both the homes we've owned, we've had a red door. I liked red in our first home, but I've been ready for a change since moving into our current home.
It took a lot of convincing. Eliza does not like change, so naturally when we began to discuss color options, she begged us not to paint it. After lots of conversations and allowing her to be a part of the process she finally settled for a before photo for the mems.
It also didn't hurt that we let her be a part of the process.
Sidenote: growing up my Dad always hired painters to paint our home, when I was really young our Uncle Marty who was a painter by profession, then later companies when he passed away. I always remember wanting to paint the walls myself and imagining how fun it would be. So even though it does make things a bit messier and more stressful, I wanted to Eliza to enjoy being a part of the painting process-- for memory sake and for sake of learning a skill.
We sampled three different colors and finally settled on Sherwin Williams Beach Bag after sanding the door.
We also opted to upgrade our door knocker (since our previous one had the onwers name engraved). We settled on this bee door knocker from Wayfair.
I'm really happy with how it all turned out. Total cost was under $100 too, which is always nice!
Although I love decorating and home renovation projects, it has been SO LONG since Chris and I have worked on a project together. It felt nice to do something fairly quick and painless and I think it's given us the confidence to continue.
Next, we're planning to tackle painting all our interior walls from current gray to a shade of white.
Stay tuned!
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