Baby's Like Popcorn, Right?

After several weeks of pondering about just the perfect color for Little Y's room, we decided (after some compromise) to go with the Benjamin Moore Popcorn Kernel. It's a few shades lighter than the yellow pictured below (that one is Morning Sunshine). M was afraid the baby would be too energized and that the color was too close to our dining room color...I wasn't aware of a rule for that but perhaps M is a design dynamo and I'm in the dark.

I'm not normally a purple person but I have been obsessed with the idea of a gray/purple, almost totally gray but with purple undertones. Clearly, this purple (Dusk till Dawn) is not that. I was also worried that my gray/purple would be too dreary for the little one, I'm going to get it into this house somehow. I'm thinking bathroom.

M really liked the blue but it was too boring basic blue for my taste. We compromised and are going to repaint the office a shade of blue; in fact we picked up some samples today to try out.





















This is the line of Benjamin Moore that we went with. It's Natura, the zero VOC option. Pregnant ladies shouldn't be painting or around paint fumes at all so we decided we should get this one...I don't want to think about how much more we probably paid for it but it's for the health of Little Y so I can't complain.














The plan for the week is for M to remove the baseboards in the room and begin painting. Aside from being pregnant, I have homework to do so he's most likely going to have to take care of painting related things.

We are excited because we're on the cusp of our first major home improvement. We are painting the baby's room followed by the office which entails removing a wall paper border and then we are putting in hardwood flooring in the upstairs hallway and the office and baby's room. We don't plan to replace the carpet in our room, the room is huge and aside from the cheddar it would cost to redo that room, I think it would be very echo-y in there because the room has cathedral ceilings.

I'll be sure to post pics of our progress!