Yay for Gray!

Long ago, beige paint was enjoying quite the heyday. I remember being super jealous of one of my first friends to graduate from apartment living into a brand new home back in 2002 or so.  Oh, to have beige walls and brushed nickle hardware! Beige was the standard, white walls were pshhhh, so boring.

But the pendulum has swung again, and beige has been bumped aside. Currently, gray is king of neutral hill, for now at least. What do you predict will be next? I’m guessing it will start back around again at white. There are only so many neutrals, right? Who knows?

But I’m still on team gray, especially since there are tons shades and variations to play with. You can have a blue-based gray, green-based gray, greige, light grays, dark and moody grays, all kinds of gray! Can beige do that? Not without veering into urine-colored territory it can’t. Ask me how I know.

So here is a rockin’ living room makeover featuring – you guessed it – gray.

Doesn’t it make the white trim pop? (I’m sorry, I really hate that phrase “make it pop!” but alas, there is none better).

Goodbye brown and yellow (colors that should never, no never be paired together), and hellooooo gorgeous.

Even the red tile around the fireplace got the gray treatment, and good thing, because that would have stuck out like a sore thumb literally. Red and pulsating and painful to behold. But now, its all a serene space awash in light. Fabulous update.

See more details from Brooke and her fab-ified living room at Re-Fabbed.