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During the whole design-the-apartment, and move-in-together-with-Patrick, and maintain-the-business part of my life I lost track of blogging. Now that we're all settled in though, I'll be telling the story from the past tense. :) Better late than never they always say, amiright!? 

 OK, so we left off on the #TTPATSHomeMakeover story with the last article, Pats Gets a Style Analysis where I realized my boyfriend who was becoming live-in, has nothing in common with me as far as living rooms.. Yikes.. So while trying to blend his modern, neutral, clean aesthetic, and my funky, bold, eclectic style I had a couple different color palettes to work with.



We both really liked the look of clean white walls. The thought being that white walls will modernize the older architecture of the apartment. Great starting point! I also really like black and white, and knew he gravitated towards that as well. Now, the trick would be bringing in the main accent colors. It was between a deep faded- almost gray- army green with touches of gray and raspberry. Imagine it! Another option as the main accent color was raspberry, adding natural woods... (like a deep manly raspberry though.) ;) And the last option was navy and leather. Classic, masculine, yet unique with it’s mix with black and white. Guess what we chose…

The army green! We thought it would be great for us because it’s still neutral-ish, and it hasn’t really been done a lot. We picked out Behr Gladiator Gray N370-6 and slapped it up on our small accent wall, keeping the rest of the walls that nice crisp white! With the raspberry accents in the living room, we decided we would have the main color in the master bedroom be that raspberry color, Benjamin Moore Crushed Velvet 2076-10 and the guest room we would leave white. Now that the hard part is over (Ha!) we could get on to layout. ;) To be continued…..

Every Monday and Friday, you can follow this story right here on the blog until the big reveal on July 15th!!

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NAFASI

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