How to Create Blue Suede Painted Walls
As the designer of Prairieside Suites Luxury Bed & Breakfast, our Guests often ask me about the beautiful blue “Faux Finish” walls in our Southern Mansion. These regal blue walls have stood the test of time. I painted them this color in 2001, making them older than some of your children! Even though we have made significant changes to this room three times. These walls still make a bold design statement as well as providing a lovely soft textured feel.
This texture has made the walls easy to touch up over the years.
Not everyone is an interior designer or perfect colorist. So I’ll share the exact colors that I used to create these walls. I used Duron Galaxy Blue AC075N & Duron Paradox #7025D. You can get a better look at these and order on a site called My Perfect Color.
It’s much harder to find a pattern that will reflect the style you want to portray in your room. Such as;
One that will nurture you in the new space your creating. With thousands of colors to choose paint is easy to choose from. In our Southern Mansion Spa room [with whirlpool for two] at our bed and breakfast in Grandville, MI our faux finish allowed me to create a “one of a kind” color. For bedrooms I look for what I want to use for my bed comforter and curtains. In a living room I would choose furniture upholstery, area rug, curtains and passementaries [like rope, braiding, fringe- basically elaborate trimmings or edgings]. After all this chosen; then it’s time pick the main color that I’ll use on the walls. In this case the vibrant blue and an accent color. In this room I chose Duron Sweet Olive #7683M as the accent color.
See how we used this green on the couch pillows, chairs, curtains, bathroom paint and you may have guessed. It’s our favorite color sheets too. This room is surely a charmer with the large oversized whirlpool tub for two.
The lavish crystal chandelier, over the whirlpool, once hung in the window of the Herpolsheimer’s Department store. It was awesome, when this lovely store was mentioned in the movie “The Polar Express”. It actually made reference to one of it’s characters living in Grand Rapids.