This is how the orange wall looked for the last two years. We really enjoyed the deep, burnt orange especially during the fall and around halloween. I decided to try a melon orange to lighten it up and had planned on using all of my water colors, sketches, a couple of white candle sconces (they were black but I spray painted them for this wall), and hang a couple of white platters (thrift store and clarence sale finds) to create a more casual look.
This is what the light orange looked like. After I spent hours laying out and hanging all of the my art work, I hated it. In a drastic move to save some of the orange I painted a gray stripe, from gray paint I had from a previous room, and created a sort of modern racing stripe which looked like it should belong on a corvette not on my dinning room wall. Luckily, I scraped the bottom of my paint can and used every last drop to paint the rest of the orange gray. Finally, a color that ALWAYS makes since.
Next, I patiently waited for the third chandelier I had ordered to arrive. Yes, third! The original one I wanted was a simple wrought iron, colonial style from Ikea but I did not want to make the 3 hour drive so I ordered a similar one from Lowes. It was going to take a month longer than it had first said so i cancelled it found a pretty silver one on a online store. It ended up going out of stock so my last attempt was to order a country antique white one from yet another store. Funny thing was, before the second one went out of stock I did make a trip up to Ikea with my friend. Well, all things happen for a reason but I was trying to keep my chandy project under a $100. So here is a picture of a piece of the one that decided to make it's way into my house BEFORE I painted it a nice crisp white.
And finally, An AFTER shot! Isn't it FABULOUS with my little $3 lamp shades from Garden Ridge.
