Glidden Home Makeover: Our Living Room

Glidden Home Makeover: Our Living Room

Glidden Home Makeover: Our Living Room

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Glidden are providing us with the supplies for this project in order for us to share this makeover experience with you. For more on Glidden Paint and where to buy, click here to view the full line of paints.

As we mentioned at the end of last month, we’ve been working on our living room makeover. We knew that this room was going to be complicated, and from start to finish it took a little over one month. This was part due to the bold color choices and ambitious choice of painting the extensive crown molding and batten trim a contrasting color from the walls; not to mention, we’ve been working overtime and dealing with things like taxes in between. It was tough having my couch stored in the middle of the kitchen and having no entertainment center or seats all month; however, the results were worth the inconvenience.

Finished living room

For the walls, we chose Red Delicious and for the trim we chose Onyx Black. It’s a very bold, Gothic color scheme, which is exactly what I was going for! I wanted to paint the room’s elaborate crown molding a contrasting color, which I knew would be a big job and a bit of a risk. We put a lot of time into very carefully taping off the trim so that the paint would look as straight and even as possible, and I give all credit to Jai for doing an amazing job! I wrote a separate tutorial explaining how we did this, so if you’re curious, click here to read it.

Front door - before

Front door - after

Living room window - before

Both living room windows - before

Living room windows - after

Living room doorway - before

Scuffed up paint - before

Scuffed up baseboards - before

Living room walls - before

Living room walls - after

Door from the living room to bedroom - before

Door from the living room to the bedroom - after

Crown molding on the ceiling - before

Crown molding on the ceiling - after

Chandelier

One of the reasons this project took a while is because the red paint required a lot of coats to cover completely – about 6. We started with 2 gallons of the Red Delicious, and we ended up buying another gallon on our own while Glidden sent us an additional three gallons simultaneously, so we went from not enough paint to a bit of a surplus. A friend that was helping us paint had also painted one of her rooms red using a different brand of dark red paint and had the same problem, so I think it’s just the nature of deep red paint. If you’re planning to do a room this color, be prepared for more coats than with most other colors.

So, what do you think of my goth living room? 😀

20 thoughts on “Glidden Home Makeover: Our Living Room

  1. What do I think of your goth living room? I think it is awesome! The best thing about paint is that you can really show your personality through your color choices.

    Great job.

  2. I am amazed at how you were able to paint all that trim without getting it everywhere. My three color experiment tried my patience. lol It looks great.

  3. I did my kitchen in cherry red and it took 4 coats and that was with colored primer so I understand completely. It’s a very dramatic transformation!

  4. it looks fantastic! The color is so pretty! I love how you gave an oder house such a dramtic new look. I can’t wait until we own our home and can paint the way I would like.

  5. That is very dramatic and came out great. We are going to be painting soon. We did something similar last time we painted, though, with the black trim. It’s actually a great contrast and works great when you have kids and dogs.

  6. Love Make overs, they always make me want to do mine. I am actually doing my living room too. Yours looks awesome. You did a great job with the living room. Job well done. Thanks for sharing.

  7. I love the gothic colour scheme you went with! Reminds me of my bedroom as a teenager. It’s beautiful and you guys did such a great job.

    P.S. That chandelier is to DIE for!

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