The Makeover of the Awful Green Playroom Commences #gliddengallons

Albeit a pleasant surprise, my daughter was a surprise.  Luckily, when we found out we were expecting I had just finished prepping one of our smaller bedrooms for paint.  (Getting to that point is the hard part in my house, since it came with nasty old wallpaper over horsehair plaster walls).  The plan was to use the room as a large walk-in closet, so I had picked out a fun grassy green, assuming there would be a lot of white storage/closet  pieces going into it.  Our daughter was one of those kids that was shy about letting the ultrasound techs see her “goodies”, so we had no idea what her gender was until a few weeks before she was born.  The green I already had on hand was painted on the now-a-nursery walls, with plans to make it more gender appropriate once we knew.  Pink went well with the green, so it worked out, at the time.

Fast-forward to the present.  The room currently serves as a playroom, I have come to loathe the green walls, with carpet in the same green.  Now that the room is not filled with furniture & pink toile frillies, the green seems to let off a sort of alien glow.  The carpet did not hold up well to the past 4 years either, and despite my best efforts refuses to come clean.  Yuck!

Thanks to the #GliddenGallons campaign through Collective Bias, M’s playroom is getting a makeover.  I’ve picked a pretty purple shade from the color palette on the Glidden website.  I love that you can change out trims, and the color of the adjacent room in the easy to use software.  It really gives you an idea if the color will work for you.  The color is called Lavender Phlox, and here is an idea what it should look like in the room.

This is the planned color palette, for the playroom makeover

M already has a soft pink retro kitchen, so I will be integrating accents of both soft & hot pink into the room.  I will also be keeping a sky blue in mind too, since she has a T-shirt and shoes the same color as the purple chosen for the walls & all these colors are in them… they are faves of ours, so I already know it can work.

Update: I’ve already painted the walls and must say the Glidden Brilliance paint did an excellent job of coverage (just one coat with touch-ups).  The service from the Walmart employee who mixed the paint for me was very good, and the color match was perfect. Ordered flooring for pick up today or tomorrow, then I will be back to Walmart to pick up a few accessories for the room… they have a lot of things in the hot pink I have in my palette.

Check out the completed Playroom Makeover!

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