Molehill in Progress #4

This project seemed like such a good idea before we made it come to fruition. I will blame this one on Pinterest. I had pinned a couple of televisions with frames mounted around them, thinking we could do that in our bedroom. The t.v. by itself with cords hanging down the wall just wasn't doing it for me. So during Christmas break, we made the frame, hid the cords in the wall, and hung it up. 

As I lived with it, I couldn't help but admit that the gap between the frame and the t.v. was just too much. I was wrong. What I had estimated in my head as the perfect dimensions before making the frame was...wrong. Ken agreed and suggested that we paint the inside wall a different color. I was ecstatic and knew that a "mat" of color would solve the problem!

I grabbed multiple paint swatches in the blue/turquoise family, thinking that if I had to add a color to our otherwise neutral room, blue was one I could work with. In particular, I wanted robin's egg blue. The closest I came was Blue Jay Blue, and it was the color swatch we thought worked best after looking them all over, even though our eyes kept going to a really deep turquoise color (which at this point, would have been much better).

So, I give you the before:

And now, the hideous-brightest-blue-you-ever-laid-eyes-on after:

It's too much for me. I knew I hated it right away. I told Ken I will live with it for a bit and see if it grows on me but I don't have high hopes.  It doesn't fit in the room (everything is beige, cream, and dark brown) and reminds me of my bedroom wall color growing up. The color is too juvenile (it screams baby blue nursery) and gives me anxiety in a house full of no color.

Now, I am working on adding pops of color and being a bit more daring in my decorating choices but this was way past my comfort zone. It definitely isn't a non-color. Because it's just not me, or our house, I'm already planning on fixing it. I want to see if I can find a linen or grasscloth fabric and put that up for some texture instead of color (Madame Pinterest - do NOT fail me on this one). If I can't, I think I will paint over the blue with a slate or light gray color. 

We shall see if we can turn this molehill into a mansion...