Pops of Green in My Home

I've been wanting to create a gallery/focal wall in our playroom for months. My desire was to create a space where I could artfully display Evelyn (and Will's) artwork or other child-themed prints (like the white one in the above picture that I created after being inspired by an identical one on Etsy).

After I finished making these curtains for the kitchen sink window, I decided I wanted to use the pea green flecks as the color for my gallery wall since the kitchen and playroom at open to each other - only "separated" by a peninsula).

But deciding I wanted to paint this wall a bold color was met with some resistance. In fact the night I bought paint and sent this picture to my good friend Megan she told me, "I honestly could not hate that color more." To her credit though... this is no where close to what the actual color is!

Luckily that's what makes each persons house unique -- it's styled for them and not others :) The color is Behr's "Retro Avocado". It's probably the most difficult color to truly capture so if you're skeptical come see it in person before buying it for yourself!

This is after the first coat. Very yellow-y and brown - yikes! (I also painted the window and baseboard white - you can see the window to the left hasn't been painted yet.) Also you can see to the right is where the kitchen peninsula is.

Here she is all done with some artwork up! It's much greener in person. We also replaced both outlets/cover to white ones to give it a fresh look since the existing plugs where a cream/black combo.

All of the frames were from my mom except for two that I bought for $1 from Salvation Army. My original plan was to paint them all the same color but part of me loves the eclectic look of them mismatched. I still haven't decided. I'll probably paint them all to match later when I want to mix it up!

Tommy is framing out an old white board I have which I then plan to paint yellow and hang on the lower part of the wall for the babes to color on. Because of the bar stools, we can't really put any furniture there.

I'll also be adding a roman shade in some type of neutral/patterned fabric. Eventually :)

This was the Valentine's Evelyn made this year framed and put on top of some scrapbook paper.

The second place I painted is the door that goes into the side hallway/entry. On my computer this is the most true representation of the color. Very pea green :) I love having this pop of color in our very white/light gray kitchen.

I still need to touch up the trim here and strip the hardware and spray paint it in a bronzed finish. All in good time :)

Now I just need to find somewhere else to use up the other half gallon of paint...