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A Pantry Makeover Part 3: Glidden Paint

When we built our house just over five years ago, I was so overwhelmed with decisions that I just took the easy road when it came to our paint colors.…

By Lemon Sugar
A Pantry Makeover Part 3: Glidden Paint

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When we built our house just over five years ago, I was so overwhelmed with decisions that I just took the easy road when it came to our paint colors. With the exception of my daughter’s room, I went all-out subdivision beige. I just couldn’t make another decision. Floors, appliances, windows, furniture, lighting, faucets…I couldn’t do it. So, subdivision beige it was.

Over the years, we’ve slowly been updating rooms to fit our taste and decor style. It’s been a slow, arduous process and I really wish I knew then what I know now. Cue Glidden paint. They have made my life so much easier this time around. They have an awesome set of design tools that really help you narrow down and choose the paint color that will work best with your design. I used the My Image Inspiration Tool and it couldn’t have been easier!

As you know, our most recent house project was a fairly major pantry remodel. We have a lovely walk-in pantry, with dark wood floors, white trim and a dark wood doorway. The old shelving was perfectly adequate, but our new shelving and organization system is a beautiful clean, bright white, and needed a wonderful “greige” (gray with beige undertones…it’s the new “it” hue!) backdrop to keep it clean and simple.

If you’re like me, when you’re planning a remodel or redesign project, you start with a collection of inspirational images and ideas. I tend to tuck these photos away, Pin them on my Pinterest boards and save them to my computer. Not all of my inspirational photos are wall colors, pantry designs or decor ideas – sometimes I’m inspired by patterns, by a painting, or by a photograph. But when you put them all together, it’s very clear that I’m drawn to a certain color palette and that’s exactly where Glidden paint will step in and help you make a decision. By simply visiting this page and uploading your inspiration photo, the tool will walk you through a quick and easy process to narrow down your choices and present you with a color palette that is created based entirely off your inspiration photos.

Amazing, and the process worked perfectly for us. I am in LOVE with our new paint color. The inspiration photos I submitted are below.

Inspiration #1 Inspiration #2

As you can see, I am definitely drawn to a certain shade of gray. The My Image Inspiration tool immediately narrowed things down for me, and I really believe I ended up with the color I’ve been dreaming about. Just to give you an idea of what I’m working with, here are a few before photographs of my pantry. As you can see, it’s very beige, so this will definitely be a nice change of pace.

Glidden Pantry Remodel - Before | www.lemon-sugar.com

So, tell me what you think? Do you think the gray will add something to my dreary, boring-beige pantry? Do you have an “inspiration file?” What images inspire you? Head over to Glidden’s site, and give their My Image Inspiration tool a try. Come back here and leave a comment telling me what color you get, and be sure to weigh in on my color choice:

Glidden Granite Gray

Glidden Paint’s Granite Gray

Be sure to visit the Glidden Pinterest Page as well for a great collection of inspirational images, and stay tuned for another post soon showcasing our finished project. Thanks for stopping by today, and thanks to Glidden paint for getting me going on this long-overdue pantry remodel!

 

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This post is sponsored by Glidden paint, but all thoughts and opinions are my own.

 

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  2. I’m not crazy about grays but maybe if you added in some True Turquoise it might perk it up. We just did a DIY on our small bathroom: paint, floor, and toilet. I love the results!

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  5. I walked through an open house and found the most beautiful paint color. I used it for my next project.
    onefrugalgirl AT gmail DOT com

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  6. I just made the decision to stick with re-painting my outdoor rocker the same colonial red. Love it!

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  7. Living in the Pacific Northwest we shy away from the color grey for obvious reasons. I think more on the lines of neon yellow!

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  14. We painted a chocolate accent wall that was inspired by a home design magazine.

    mami2jcn at gmail dot com

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  16. Our last home décor project was inspired by a message board I read in which people recommended paint colors that would go with our kitchen cabinets.
    kellywcu8888ATgmailDOTcom

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  20. The sense of peace, inspired my latest home decor project. The paint in the bathroom was too loud, it needed toning down.
    jslbrown_03 at yahoo dot com

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  30. Our last project was inspired by a master bath wall hook not coming out gracefully. As it pulled the paint, texture and some of the drywall paper off with it we decided to pain the entire space.

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  35. I got inspired when I saw a color of paint on Pinterest that I fell in love with and I knew it was time to finally paint my white walls.
    s2s2 at comcast dot net

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  43. I was inspired just by walking around in the store and see what was available that I liked.

    lazybones344 at gmail dot com

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  48. We recently painted my daughters room a light pink, a girly color for her. It’s a color she can still grow old with but looks cute for too. She had outgrown the baby color theme we had going on in there.

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  49. i saw a toy chest that i wanted in target and didn;t want to pay 200 dollars for it so we did one for around 75 with same colors and everything

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  51. I was inspired by staying at a boutique hotel…and am now in the middle of a complete bathroom reno

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  54. I am painting three rooms and replacing floors now and I got my idea from The Young and the Restless.
    dolniaks at consolidated dot net

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  58. I was inspired by one of my old issues of Domino magazine. I have every.single.issue. Obsessed with that magazine! I painted my bathroom a gorgeous shimmery champagne color!

    heatheranne99 at gmail dot com

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  59. A photograph of a pumpkin covered with lace that I saw on Pinterest. I used lace to cover the front of dresser drawers on a dresser I bought at a resale shop.

    Kimberley Meier
    momof3chaos at gmail dot com

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  61. I wanted my walls to be more happier so that is why I did an accent wall!

    motioncitycutie(at)aol(dot)com

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  62. Our last home decor project was inspired by the decor of Restoration Hardware store. We got an antique console table and a coffee table for our living room.

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  66. a elegant bedroom comforter inspired our last bedroom makeover, I have ideas for the bathroom next

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  67. My most recent inspiration was the countertop I chose for our kitchen remodel. Once I had it, other choices just fell into place.

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  68. I was inspired to makeover my dining room china cabinet based on a picture I saw in Better Homes & Gardens

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  69. We are going to be painting a nursery over the weekend, and the color scheme and arrangement was found on a Pinterest site.

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  74. Our last home décor project was inspired by a message board I read in which people recommended paint colors that would go with our kitchen cabinets.
    kellywcu8888ATgmailDOTcom

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  75. What inspired by last project was that I began subscribing to some DIY blogs and couldn’t help but notice how bland and unwelcoming our kitchen was so I got straight to work reorganizing and repainting! 🙂 deeg131 at gmail dot com

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  78. I always get design ideas from design on a dime HGTV show….my latest was modernizing my kitchen cabinets with paint and new knobs

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  88. I needed to update the bathroom to a satin or semigloss for easier cleaning and to update the boring yellow. I have been inspired by a beautiful sage green sweater that I get compliments on constantly. It is perfect! Calming and pretty.

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  91. What inspired my last project was an all-over scroll stencil I saw online that looked so classy. I bought it and created a wallpaper look with paint in our bathroom.

    madelinebrubaker {at} gmail [dot] com

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  93. My latest project was inspired by other bloggers who did built in bookshelves. Because of them I had the confidence to tackle the project.

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  102. I like to check out decorating blogs to get inspiration I do not have very good creativity skills so I need all the help I can get

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  108. My last home decor project was inspired by what two little (6 and 4) boys would find fun and spark their creativity- I redid their bedroom and wanted it to be special. We painted two walls with neon glow in the dark paint and two with chalkboard paint and they chose a lot of the other decorating themselves. It was a lot of fun 🙂

    crystalmethod54751@gmail.com

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  111. Ours is easier because we have a Victorian. We saw a similar house with warmer less ‘museum-esque’ colors and copied accordingly.

    ky2here at msn dot com

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  116. I’m not wild about the gray, sorry! Our most recent project is in progress, out master bedroom, and it was inspired by the soft teal of some 2nd hand curtains that I really like.

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  122. For me it was a ratting chair I found at a garage sale. I painted it blue and found a great piece of material to redo the seat. Then I had to finish the dining area to match my awesome chair!

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  135. Our last home improvement project was due to necessity. When we bought our home 7 years ago, it was a hot mess, a total fixer-upper. So we had to paint the whole house, including all the doors and wood trim, as well as re do all the hardwood floors!

    Angie
    14earth at gmail dot com

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  136. the last home decor project i did was our dining room and I was inspired by the house we visited at the beach on our summer vacation, i love it!

    susansmoaks at gmail dot com

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  146. My girlfriend decided to change the color of our walls. That got us to change things up! Lexbaylor17 at gmail com

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  148. Our last home project was to completely redo our kitchen cabinets as well as paint all the walls. Our kitchen really took a hit from Hurricane Katrina and we waited for a few years till we saved enough to start and finish the project. It is the kitchen of my dreams and is bright lemony yellow and blue.
    lauraemerson17 at yahoo dot com

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  150. We bought a new house and I hated all of the interior paint colors. I wanted to pick a neutral to paint the entire house with just to get everything painted quickly so we could get moved in. I was so tired of living with white and beige apartment walls though. My living room couches are grey and I really love them, so I started looking at different greys that would look good in the whole house. We decided on a gorgeous light grey for the walls and a bright white for the trim and I couldn’t be happier.

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