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Choosing a paint color is my least favorite DIY job. I LOVE repainting a space and watching it transform, but the process to choosing that perfect color is not fun. I am picky about colors and undertones, the way they change throughout the day and play off the furnishings. For example this is my son’s room now with a (what I thought was neutral) gray that turned out to look pretty much blue. I don’t mind blue, but I didn’t really want that blue and looking through all the color choices at once was a bit overwhelming.
When we moved in, we kind of just threw all his stuff in his room and it’s been that way ever since. I told him that his room would be the first one I “worked” on when we had time.
When Glidden paint asked us to try out their color choosing tools, we jumped on board! We chose My Image Inspiration, which uses images you choose to present you with a simplified Glidden paint color palette. We loved this idea because my 10-year-old could choose his inspiration images to completely customize his room.
For a peek at how it works, here’s the first image we uploaded
and here’s a screenshot of the My Image Inspiration page after I uploaded the photo
I love that it chooses and suggests colors that will actually look good on a wall in your room and not just a random color from the photo. You can choose to email or print yourself a shopping list based on the simplified color palette you chose.
Here are some images he picked out for inspiration in addition to the one above:
and this image from The Inspired Room that we saw on Glidden Paint’s Color Inspiration Pin Board.
and this image found on the Colortopia blog:
Right now we are leaning towards using Onyx Black with Smoky Charcoal.
We’ve loved browsing the color palettes and choosing some of our own inspiration, and can’t wait to make a final decision! Before we do though, we’d love some feedback from you – which photo do you think we should go with for this tween boy room re-do?
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I got huge surge of inspiration from Coastal Living magazine recently.
HilLesha(at)twc(dot)com
Sadly, it was a long time ago before my daughter was born. I went from yellow/floral to muted pastels for her.
I love Pinterest as well for inspiration. My last project was redecorating my daughters room and I found a lot of ideas on pinterest.
https://twitter.com/susan1215/status/355472521962856448
I actually love all of them! We have similar taste. 🙂 And my last project was painting a pair of nightstands.
chambanachik at gmail dot com
twitted this today, 11/07
My last project was inspired by some funky wall art I found at a local knick knack shop 🙂
Tweeted 🙂 – https://twitter.com/Enter_Now/status/355605886053531649
I get inspired just by walking in the store and seeing what's available that I like.
twitted this today, 13/07
Pinterest has really inspired me
Moving from a large home to a small cottage had me getting creative with paint color.
Tweeted.
https://twitter.com/Jayne_Martin/status/356507133040263169
twitted this today, 14/07
We recently painted my daughters room a light pink, a girly color for her. It's a color she can still grow old with but looks cute for too. She had outgrown the baby color theme we had going on in there.
I like the beach photo!
twitted this today, 16/07
Dwell magazine article
I am painting three rooms and replacing floors now and I got my idea from The Young and the Restless.
dolniaks at consolidated dot net
https://twitter.com/smilekisses/status/357389828444262400
trying to find the right compromise between basement and play room style
A family vacation to the beach inspired my last home decor project 🙂
twitted this today, 17/07
Ugh I'm terrible at anything DYI. Our last home decoration project was painting the kitchen. Not really interesting, oh well.
I was inspired by one of my old issues of Domino magazine. I have every.single.issue. Obsessed with that magazine! I painted my bathroom a gorgeous shimmery champagne color!
Tweet!
https://twitter.com/KaizenFashion/status/358675001425149952
A photograph of a pumpkin covered with lace that I saw on Pinterest. I used lace to cover the front of dresser drawers on a dresser I bought at a resale shop.
Kimberley Meier
momof3chaos at gmail dot com
Tweeted: https://twitter.com/MRSMEIER5627/status/358837191054606336
Kimberley Meier
momof3chaos at gmail dot com
I wanted my walls to be more happier so that is why I did an accent wall!
Our last home decor project was inspired by the decor of Restoration Hardware store. We got an antique console table and a coffee table for the living room.
-https://twitter.com/tcarolinep/status/359888382731624450
Tweet: https://twitter.com/OneFrugalGirl/status/360196234071384070
the colors of my wedding bouquet
https://twitter.com/DesMoinesDealin/status/360940733370335232
I was inspired to makeover my dining room china cabinet based on a picture I saw in Better Homes & Gardens
We will be painting a nursery over the weekend, and the color scheme and arrangement were first seen in a Pinterest posting.
My last project was organizing my 7 yr olds room…I painted it and got decorative cubes for storage. My insrirations came from my friends daughters room
tiffany lane
mckenziesmom1@hotmail.com
I get inspired by colors from nature!
I tweeted https://twitter.com/FloydSara/status/363310091442720769
I re-did a TV room for the 'boys' (as in grown men around here) in earth tones, very much in the style of such a room from my own childhood. What's that about I wonder!
I posted a tweet as well: https://twitter.com/AnnaZed/status/363337461423816706
My last project was inspired by a red and brown wreath my grandmother had.
tweet https://twitter.com/prizepuzzle/status/363787816880181249
my last project was inspired by a laundry-room makeover i saw in a magazine
What inspired by last project was that I began subscribing to some DIY blogs and couldn't help but notice how bland and unwelcoming our kitchen was so I got straight to work reorganizing and repainting! 🙂
tweeted https://twitter.com/DeeGee13/status/363943324584914944
A beach vacation was my last inspiration for redecorating my bathroom. Accessories and shower curtain etc were easy to find. The paint? Shell pink, of course! I used aqua for accent, along with just a little seafoam green. The results were spectacular if I do say so myself. 🙂
https://twitter.com/tnshadylady/status/364136913793335297
I always get design ideas from design on a dime HGTV show….my latest was modernizing my kitchen cabinets with paint and new knobs
We just finished a major remodel. My inspiration was the countertop that I chose very early in the process.