for the love of colors

so, i am still debating (months later) what color to put on the living room walls...its really at this point becoming beyond urgent for me, considering i still have these big splothes of color on the wall...

not to mention some new ones that i added recently because the colors green and orange have been calling out to me...

but now i realize that i really want to go back to my original inspiration, which was this Alexander Henry fabric that i purchased over two+ years ago...

it's so colorful and crazy...i love it...

the browns and creams and the cutenesss...

so, i am just going back to the drawing board and keeping it simple and going with white...the whitest white i can find...

why?

because i think it will be the great backdrop for all the other hues that i want to bring into the room like in these pics....

the white is such a great stage for the other tones to come to life...so i am just going to go for it...

the windows...

months ago i posted what i thought would end up being the solution to my window issue.

i lived with the window film just taped up for months because from the moment i put it up i realized that i hated it.

it was just too opaque and too dang white...

my goal was to have light not turn the windows into big white blobs

here they are with the window film up.

so fast forward to a few weeks ago and the idea of frosting came to me, but there was no way that i could actually use glass frosting on the windows

low and behold a simple web search delivered my solution via lifehacker

glaze!

plain ol faux paint glaze, sans the paint...

you can see what a great difference it makes as far as privacy goes when you compare the bottom treated window to the top untreated...

Same here. Left side treated, right side not.

brilliant!

now i can have light without having to expose my everything.. and trust me sometimes it's truly my everything!

thank you lifehacker!!!

quick update

the window film has been purchased and taped to the windows..

while i like the privacy that it will represent, i am not all that thrilled with the blank white color..

i may cut it into some kind of design..

still thinking about that.

i have also been looking at paint colors..

these are the three that i put on the wall a week or so ago....

intially i loved them...

now..not so sure..

the room will be "grounded" around this piece of Alexander Henry fabric, which i am hanging..

so, i don't know about the colors...

i may have to go back to square one on that..