I am still looking for a few furniture pieces for the cottage and found a couple of little tables at two different yard sales over the summer. I bought a little side table at the annual Surfpines neighborhood yard sale just north of Gearhart on Fourth of July weekend. It was painted with a flat grey paint – it may have even been some kind of chalk paint – and I knew I would need to paint it some nice beachy color when I bought it for…
The kitchen is one of the really fun rooms in this cottage – as kitchens should be! It’s big and has lots of storage and the major updates have been done. There is a newer fridge, dishwasher, gas stove and best of all – a garbage disposal – which is a rare thing down at the coast for some reason. The original 1920’s cabinets have been painted a soft green. The little cutout cabinet doors with the white curtains under the sink are…
The very first room to get new paint was the living room. Those very white walls were calling out, “Please paint me a nice warm grey to go with the fireplace grout.” Finding a nice warm grey took a few tries. This room has west facing windows all across the front and a ton of light comes in. The first grey sample ended up looking brownish and so did the second. Trust me – it looked brown/grey. “Warm Grey” was not grey on these…
Now to the fun part – Paint colors! You knew that was coming up next – right? When the previous owner bought this cottage over twenty-five years ago, things were apparently a tad bit rough about the edges. It seems that all of the walls on the main floor, some of the woodwork, and who knows what-all-else had been painted a bright shade of yellow. That yellow was covering up a previous shade of robin’s egg blue – and not doing a great…