Lundby Renovation Planning: The Color Scheme

I can be a little slapdash about projects. Going in hung-ho, with a somewhat-formed plan, and then losing steam when either I burn out on an idea or my lack of a fully-formed plan bites me in on the tuchas. 

This tendency of mine had resulted in said bites to my behind many a time, but I decided that I wasn't going to let my flair for the slapdash 'get me' when it came to the Lundby renovation. No, siree, this time I was going to have a plan. A Plan with a Capital 'P'. 

First on my agenda was deciding on a color scheme. I never had any intention of refurbishing this house to its original condition. Despite the fact that this will no doubt horrify many a Lundby Purist, my Plan never involved an orange carpeted, plaid kitchen'd four storey home in my daughter's lovely coral, yellow and soft sage nursery. My Plan involves a complete overhaul and modernizing of the house with homage paid to Mid Century Modern and Hollywood Renaissance design. 

With that in mind, I sat down and started looking through Etsy for a digital paper set that piqued my fancy and would fit with the schemes I was envisioning. I knew that I wanted to paint the exterior robin's egg blue, do a mid grey stone finish on the roof, and white on the trim, windows and doors. 

After a few attempts perusing etsy, I found a set that struck my fancy. It's got florals, big blowsy blooms, a few 'atomic' mid century patterns and gold. And it incorporated yellow, shades of coral, shades of real and robins egg blue. Perfecto! My mother happens to be in town from Australia and she liked it too. 

I spent my $4.80 to get then I go to work in Photoshop, mocking up some ideas. After playing around a bit, and seeing what Mum thought of my plans, I ended up with a scheme that I think will look fabulous:

Basement: 

Family Room - Gold and white stripe feature wall, wide plank white flooring

Garage - white painted brick using the egg carton technique

First Floor: 

Living Room - Floral feature wall, wide plank white flooring 

Kitchen - Floral feature wall, pale aqua glazed subway tiling, white wide glazed tile floor (tiles to be made using craft sticks, paint and tripe weight glaze) 

Second Floor:

Kids Room - Sunny Yellow feature wall, white carpeting 

Study/Hall - Gold stripe feature wall and white wide plank flooring 

Bathroom - rose pink feature wall, petal pink subway tile, white wide glazed told flooring 

Third Floor: 

Nursery - Blue feature wall with gold dots and white carpeting 

Master - Floral feature wall with wide whiff plank wood flooring 

That's it! I am so excited about this color scheme. Cannot wait to see it slowly come together! 

Here's to having a Plan.