The English Maximalista

As is often the case in my life, things don’t always go to plan. Take, for instance, my grand idea to colour-match paint with the dove grey Toto toilet in our water closet. 

I kinda-sorta had a vague idea of choosing the perfect shade of “greige” which wouldn’t clash with our towels and the curtain valance, as well as bring out the colours in the wallpaper I had purchased for the vanity / dressing area in our primary suite. Then I was going to finish the room off with a collage of family photos on one wall.

Except, when the greige paint was dry, I decided it didn’t look right. At all. It looked like a shade of lavender. Which was very pretty, but it was just wrong, as you can see in my little YouTube video here. Not the right colour for this room. Was I going to have to fall back on my old standby and simply paint the damn room black?!

(Don’t get me wrong: I would not have a problem with painting the entire house black, except I’d get a bit bored with it.)

Since I only had two rolls of the wallpaper for the dressing area, there most likely wouldn’t be enough to use it in the WC… but what if I did one small section of wall in there, and paint the other walls black? That might work. I decided to take a chance.

And thank goodness I gave it a go, because the result is absolutely smashing. WE LOVE IT.

I shall reveal the dressing area to you in my next blog post.

Lots of love,

M xo