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Sherwin Williams Perfect Palette Room ReDo and Giveaway-Part 2

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Okay, so remember when I shared my horribly ugly guest bedroom with you here?  The one we decided we are going to make over into my oldest son’s room?  Well, today I wanted to let you know that we finally decided on a color palette. Hooray!

So first, a review! Here were my two color palette choices…

Palette #1:

(Palette #1 using the awesome Chip It! software)


And Palette #2 :
In the picture above you can see how I used Sherwin-Williams’s new Chip It! button, which lets you use any picture you find online to create a perfect palette for inspiration.  It is awesome!

You can get the Chip It! button just like the Pin It button for Pinterest.  First you drag the Chip It! button below to your toolbar:
Chip It!

Whenever you spot a photo you like online, just click the Chip It! button and then click the photo itself. And voila–you get the picture’s paint colors.  So easy!  It rocks my socks.
Did you put your vote in for which palette I should use? 
Which do you think we picked?

All right, enough with the suspense. We chose color palette #2!!!
I just loved the mix of colors in this photograph.  I think it will suit Noah just fine too, as he loves the color orange. This color palette definitely appealed to all of us: me, for my love of the neutral gray color as a base for decorating; my husband, for the infusion of blues and oranges so it is not a ‘Debbie Downer’ sort of room where you feel depressed walking into it on a daily basis (his thoughts, not mine, people!); and Noah, for the ORANGE. This kid loves orange and he is so happy that he will have a room with orange decor.  Don’t you love it when it’s the little things that can make a kid happy?  🙂

So…now back to the ugly room we need to make over.  Let’s just take a look-see at it one more time and let me share with you some thoughts I have about the redecorating that is about to take place.

Yeah, there’s a lot of crazy going on in this room!

Just to share a few redecorating ideas with you…
1. The wallpaper has got to go!  This is definitely priority #1 right now. †In its place will be a nice light grey paint color. Ahhhh, goodness!
2. The queen-size bed will be replaced by a twin bed with a frame, quite possibly the one my husband used as a child. 🙂
3. The makeshift nightstand will go bye-bye and we’ll replace it with something more “Noah.”
4. The window will get its molding back, and then on top of that some nice curtains or drapes, quite possibly in orange for the little man!
5. Two words: WALL ART!!!  This room has been such a catchall for junk since we moved into our house that I am uber-excited to finally get some nice wall art up in here.  And after using the Chip It! program, I know just the colors to bring into the room, hip hip hooray!

Now, for some eye candy!  Here are some inspiring images that might be nice for our makeover. I found them based off of the Chip It! palette:
{Cute Robo-Bedding via Land of Nod}

{Funky lampshade via Rosenberry Rooms}
{Inspiration wall art via Wall Fry}
You likey?  Man, how I love looking for inspirational images. Maybe that’s why I love Pinterest so much?  You too, right?  
If so, I have to tell you again that you really, truly do need to check Chip It! out.  It is one of the neatest things out there.   Go see  the Chip It! video and add the Chip It! button to your bookmarks bar now.  You will fall completely in love with what this new program does for your inspirational image color palettes. 
Okay, so ya ready for the giveaway?
For a chance to win a $1,000 Visa gift card and a $200 Sherwin-Williams gift card, tell me about an image you’d like to ìchipî (feel free to include a link to the image).
Rules:
No duplicate comments.
You may receive (2) total entries by selecting from the following entry methods:
a) Leave a comment in response to the sweepstakes prompt on this post
b) Tweet about this promotion and leave the URL to that tweet in a comment on this post
c) Blog about this promotion and leave the URL to that post in a comment on this post
d) For those with no Twitter or blog, read the official rules to learn about an alternate form of entry.
Entries from all participating blogs will be pooled for winner selection; only two entries per household.
This giveaway is open to US Residents age 18 or older. Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail. You have 72 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
The Official Rules are available†here.
This sweepstakes runs from 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012.
Be sure to visit the Sherwin-Williams brand page†on†BlogHer.com, where you can read other bloggers’ posts!

XOXO,

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Comments

  1. Ashley W. says

    I have a picture of my daughter playing in the sprinklers with her aqua umbrella and a rainbow striped dress. It has always been one of my favorite pictures of her. I think I would use the colors as inspiration for her new bedroom [yay for buying our first house!].

  3. Bethany Morrill says

    My daughter loves the Carl books, and we have a print of Carl and the baby in the park with the balloon man. I would love to repaint her room and include some of the balloon colors in the decorating!

  5. Kelly Ramos says

    I like grey tones, natural brown tones, and white combined with an occasional “pop” of color. Feels very soothing to me 🙂

  7. becky says

    Currently every wall in our living room has multiple grey stripes. We have it down to two colors but they are different as can be. Light/dark, blue tint/brown tint, one we like more in natural light and the other more in artificial light. If only we had a picture of our finished living room to ichip. How easy that would be to pick the ‘right’ color now!

  8. lej619 says

    wow What a great giveaway!! i could use it to paint the inside of the house.
    we are renting and it still has the builders colors on the wall. all a green-gray color. thanks for the chance to win!

  9. Kara Lane says

    I am not exactly sure which one I would choose, there is so much great stuff out there! But I know the benefit would be for my boring white non decorated living room!

  11. Anonymous says

    Chip It! is awesome! I’ll use it to find the perfect shade of grey for my bedroom – it’s so hard to find a warm tone – and the perfect shade of pink for my daughter’s room that’s not too frilly for my addicted-to-pink, thinks-she’s-a-teen tween.

    melissa-power at hotmail dot com

  15. Melissa says

    I would use chipit to find the perfect sage green color. I see it in nature all the time, but it never looks the same once I get it up on my walls.

    Thanks!
    Melissa
    bmbunner at hotmail dot com

  16. BRT says

    Wow! What an amazing giveaway! We will be welcoming our first baby this December and would use chipit to select the paint for the nursery! We won’t find out if it is a boy or girl until next month so my Pinterst inspiration board is all over the place!

  19. Little Ella Lu says

    Several years ago when we were going to paint our daughter’s room I saw a picture in a magazine with the most perfect delicate pink or purple (I can’t remember which), I would have loved to get the paint numbers for it.

  20. Anonymous says

    I love the chip it tool! Not a blank piece of paper person but give me the right tools and I can make it happen.

  21. Abbie Johnson says

    We need to do our master bedroom. After 14 yrs of marriage we finally bought real furniture but can’t decide on how to decorate around it. My husband is anti-anything to girly/flowery so we have a hard time coming to an agreement.
    abbiejohnsoncm at yahoo dot com

  26. Emily says

    Great choice! I’m excited to see the end result! I’d pick a tropical scene or maybe I’ll chip one of the hot air balloons we saw last week. emmillee(AT)Gmail(dot)com

  27. Anna says

    I would use a photograph of my late summer hydrangeas. There are some great earthy colors , blues, greens, browns in them. I’m wanting to repaint my whole house and two of the four bedrooms so this would be an incredible win for me! (I couldn’t sleep last night because I was thinking through color swatches. ) I can’t wait to get the chip it and get started!

  29. Anonymous says

    I’m thinking about repainting my living room in a “beachy shades of blue-green with sandy tan” theme. I think chipit would be very helpful in translating my favorite photos into paint color!
    denisedoez(at)hotmail(dot)com

  30. Cozye says

    First, I have to say I absolutely LOVE Sherman-Williams paint. I’ve been using them exclusively for a couple years now and find that the slight increase in price is beyond worth the quality of products. And the guys at our S-W are so awesome & knowledgable.

    I have a couple pictures from our trip to Cancun I would use on ChipIt to pick the perfect colors for a bathroom oasis. Thanks for the chance to win! This is such a great giveaway!

    kcozart05@gmail.com

  37. Kayla Santana says

    I would chip a picture from Pottery Barn. They have adorable whale bedding with blue, grey and white. It would be perfect for my boys new nursery.

  45. barneyn says

    I would like to have a picture of my son in a dark blue sweater with his big brown eyes popping out!

    nelly dot barney at yahoo dot com

  51. Anonymous says

    I’ll be chipping items choosen by my son. We never got around to painting his room a fun color and now we’re moving so he will be the first to get a makeover. He loves all things orange so I’ve been thinking orange and greys, like you choose!

    Janelle

  52. Sandy says

    I need to redo our “master” bedroom! It has been the same mis-matchy mix since we moved in almost 10 years ago!! I don’t have a picture in mind. I need to get onto pinterest to look for some ideas!

  53. Michelle Evans says

    http://modern-homes-interior-design.blogspot.com/2009/12/children-bedroom-furniture-sets.html

    i like the green. i’m pretty sure i couldn’t pick it without help though. 🙂 i want to re-do both kid rooms in our house. currently our older boy and girl are sharing a blue and yellow room with pink and green bedding (kinda a mishmash of stuff) and our baby boy is in a room with pink and white striped walls (his gets the first makeover) 🙂 thanks for the cool tool. 🙂

  54. Paula says

    My master bedroom is the same as when we moved in. I really need to take down the “old lady” wallpaper & curtains & take up the carpet & refinish the old wood floor. Cool tool this chipit!

  55. Leela the Kid says

    My kitchen cabinets were painted white years ago and it’s wearing off – so I’d really like to do a neutral color on the walls and do a few different bright colors on the cabinets. It would be great to use chipit to figure out the right colors.

  56. Tammigirl says

    I took this picture on the way home one afternoon. Ever since then, it’s been rolling around in my head as inspiration for my bathroom. But I had no idea what to do or how to do it. I’m so grateful for this little browser bar button. It has already changed my life!

    Oh, here’s the picture: ifyoucouldseewhatisee.blogspot.com/2012/04/scattered-showers-tuesday-i-was-driving.html

  58. Chris says

    We recently stayed at a beautiful beach house. I would use the program to get the same color palette for my home!

    chris98730 at gmail dot com

  59. Allison C says

    I would use this image http://www.flor.com/all-square-orange.html to chip as I’m in love with this rug and I think it would be interesting to see what other colors can play with that color rug and not look like a rainbow exploded in the room. Chip it is so cool! I can never picture what everything will look like so this is super helpful. We just bought our first house and I am painting and decorating every room so Chip it will come in handy! Thanks for the chance.

  60. mom to LaLu says

    My boys wanted their whole room green, but by Chip”ing” some images for them we found other colors that worked with the green so we could compromise on the color palate. LOVE Chipit!

  61. simplydre says

    I would use it for my whole house! Our living room and both bathrooms are white. The kitchen is an awful cream color and, well, I’m ashamed to go on! I could definitely use the gift cards!!! Thanks for the giveaway!

  64. Anonymous says

    I would use the chip it to redo my boys room. I am not really good at putting colors together and that would be the perfect tool for me. Then I would also use it to redo my dining room with some earth tone colors. I have a few pictures from a magazine I would work with.
    Jessica
    cloveracresfarm@yahoo.com

  65. Anonymous says

    I would love to use the chip it to redo our master bedroom. As it has taken a backseat to the kids rooms and living areas since we moved in over 8years ago.
    Love your blog, thanks for sharing all you awesome ideas.
    Lori

    lori@lorioldham.com

  67. Norah Pfingsten says

    Our master bedroom needs help and chip it sound like a great tool to use. I grew up in the desert and miss it. I would use a photo of a red cactus flower, with golden notes from the pollen and the sandy desert back ground for inspriation. The more neutral tan color for the walls and the brigher colors to pop.

  68. Anash says

    I want to chip some photos of Ireland and the rolling hills that I captured! Thanks for a super giveaway!
    My email: anashct1 [at] yahoo [dot] com

  71. nobimbo says

    I would use “chipit” to find the perfect color scheme for our living room, which is pretty boring (all beige) now!

  81. LauraJJ says

    In my bathroom upstairs, I have a couple fish prints that I would love to use chip it to repaint the room and buy some new matching towels. I would love to see what colors I could pull out of them! Love Chip it!
    landfjacobson @ charter.net

  97. Stephanie says

    Need to chip away at my 80’s family room – remnant 80’s border, chipping paint – needs some renovation love pronto! possibly using a sunet twilight blue photo
    tvollowitz at aol dot com

  104. sarah says

    i’d like to chip a picture of my son’s eyes – they are the best color i’ve ever seen!
    stigay at comcast.net

  107. Jessica says

    I just went on vacation, and it would be awesome to chip it some of my pictures of the beach!

    jessicarwarfield at gmail dot com

  112. Betty C says

    I’m looking the the photo I have of a quilt I made that I’d like to use to create a new palette for my bedroom. I may have to take another picture.

    willitara [at] gmail [dot] com

  113. Tiffany says

    I can’t wait to use that “Chip It!” tool. I have been wanting to change the color of my dining room but have been dreading going through my paint chip deck to find the color I’m looking for. I already have a couple of inspirational pictures on pinterest and this tool is going to help me get the color I’m looking for. I’m sooooo exciting about this tool, thanks for sharing Maggie and I can’t wait to see Noah’s room.

  114. Amy Z says

    I’m an avid photographer, so there are many choices…I took a particularly stunning photo of a Seattle sunset several years ago that would look fantastic “chipped.” The resultant colors would include a lot of deep, rich blues and grays that I would love to have in my home.

    amyzak11 (at) gmail (dot) com

  118. Jamie says

    There are too many inspiration ideas to choose from. But I have been wanting to paint and would love to use the chip it tool.

  119. Tamar says

    I’d chip the image of my new house, which we just put an offer in for today! Thanks!
    tamarsweeps-at-gmail-dot-com

  156. Emmy Coffee says

    I LOVE the color of light blue hydrangeas–I would love to have my bedroom painted in that color. It would be so calming and refreshing.

  158. Tansy Dolls says

    I’d chip this photo of me wearing my daughter when she was a baby. Its super close up so all you can see is her creamy baby skin, big brown eyes, and the sage green of the silk lining on the carrier. ~Robin