Recently premier paints from Canadian Tire paid me to make a video and I
thought it'd be the perfect time to do a little something with this blank white
canvas that is my living room so in today's video a little living room makeover
Hi guys my name's Shayda Campbell welcome to my living room so spring is
definitely trying to sprung here in Canada and lately I've been wanting to
sort of freshen things up a bit so I'm thinking a living room makeover
is the perfect thing now Chris and I just moved into this apartment on
December 1st of 2017 we were living on the road for two plus years so long
story very short we were basically moving from out of province or out of
country and we would find a job and then we would just rent like a tiny furnished
whatever for a couple months and then we move on so this is the first home that
we've had in over two years almost three years and so I'm really enjoying making
it a home and getting settled here a few months ago I did my studio makeover and
I did a full tour and video about that so I'll link that in the description and
now I'm ready to tackle this big blank canvas of a white room that is our
living room and what I want to do here is we have a pretty minimal style but
this one definitely needs some pieces it needs a rug a coffee table and some
accent pieces like pillows and plants but more than that I think it needs a
little pop of color and I'm thinking pink yes pink pink can be so cool and
fun and hip and unique and sophisticated and adult and that's what I want to show
in this video that pink doesn't have to be the color of a little girls
ballerina candyfloss themed room it really can be a sophisticated and adult
like I said and just cool and premiere paints from
Canadian Tire they have a bunch of really nice colors of paint nice shades that I
think can work for anybody any room any style so I'm going to show you my
favorite colors of pink and I'm also going to do a blog post about this so
you can read all about this over on shaydacampbellblog.com so there
will be extra photos over there and I'll also have a list of all my favorite pink
colors that way if you don't catch it in the video you can go over there and
check out extra photos and read about the Pink's anyway I'm going to show you
guys the full makeover of this room as well as the makeover of this pink accent
wall so it's all that and more in today's video so at the heart of this
makeover was really the pink accent wall and one of the nice things about doing
the accent wall is that it was really just a weekend project it took like all
of 24 hours I just started by clearing out the space getting rid of all the
dust bunnies and then I used some painters tape and I taped off the area
that I wanted to paint and this is really the key when you're painting a
wall or anything for that matter it's not about the act of painting it's
really all about the prep so you want to make sure that any dust is wiped away
and then you want to properly and carefully tape off the area so that you
have nice clean straight lines and I decided not to take my accent color
right up to the ceiling I stopped about a foot shy of the ceiling and left a
nice white line and I was able to tape this off just freehand using my blue
painters tape it worked out wonderfully I just eyeballed it you could also do
that with a chalk line or something but I just relied on my own eye and the tape
made a beautifully clean line from the pink to the white and speaking of pink
the color I chose is called light blush and I decided to go with a flat finish I
love a flat finish for an accent wall because it just has a beautifully soft
look and I didn't have to worry about a flat finish not being durable enough
because these Premiere paints are very durable so I'm able to actually wash
this accent wall if I do get some fingerprints or something on there and I
don't have to worry about the finish degrading I painted the wall just using
a brush and a little roller and I put two coats on it over the space of an
afternoon such a simple project just being careful not to slop a lot of paint
onto the tape then I let the accent wall dry overnight you always want to give
your paint lots of time to dry before you pull the tape off I did that on a
Friday afternoon and then on Saturday morning I just came in pulled off all
the tape I had these nice beautiful clean lines
between the pink and the white I was really happy with the way it turned out
and then anywhere there was a little smudge of paint or whatever I just took
a tiny brush and fixed it up and then once the wall was done it was time to
move all of our furniture back in and I picked up a few different pieces
including these poof's that make for a great footstool / coffee table new house
plants and linen pillows and a beautiful Vietnamese basket to hang on the wall
now I am gonna buy a larger area rug I'm sort of on the hunt for the perfect rug
I'll layer a nice 8 by 10 cream-colored rug underneath the Persian and then I'll
be totally done but for now this is what the room looks like and I'm so happy
with it it's a little bit boho still very simple and minimal and very very
cozy and I just love my pink wall and light blush from premier paints well
guys the living room makeover is pretty much complete and I'm super happy with
the way it turned out I just turned out the way that I had
envisioned and I love it when that happens my
favorite things in the room are one the pink wall duh I did this in a color
called light blush and that's from premier paints at Canadian Tire and in
the end I decided to do it in a flat finish now flat finishes I think people
are sort of scared off of them because they're often not durable but the
premier paints are exceptionally durable so I don't have to worry about if I need
to wash the wall I'm not going to deteriorate the finish of the paint and
the reason I love a flat finish is that it has a very soft subtle look there's
no glare it sort of absorbed the light really beautifully and almost has a
stucco look so I'm loving the way that it came out in the end also I didn't go
right up to the top of the ceiling and I feel that just helps to incorporate the
accent color into the rest of the room it carries the white of the rest of the
room right throughout now this accent wall only took me a day it was a pretty
much one day project or over the course of 24 hours so because it was so
simple I feel I can reproach this pink is great for spring and summer but come
next fall and Christmas and winter if I want to change it up it's not a big deal
and secondly the other things that I'm really loving are all the jute and linen
accents in this room I've got my linen pillows this beautifully patterned
alpaca blanket the jute poof's and my accent piece on our accent wall and I
love that that's sort of what's in this summer and jute is so huge this season
but these are all things I could switch out easily enough if I wanted to change
it up in a couple of years time but for now and loving this sort of pared down
boho style that's what I'm going for I hope I achieved it I'll be on the
hunt for a perfect area rug over the next month but tell me what you think
I'd love to hear what you think of the living room in the comments below and of
course you can head over to the blog I'm listing all of my favorite premier pink
shades over on shaydacampbellblog.com all right I'll see you Friday with
a new video thanks for watching today guys don't forget to subscribe and head
over to the blog to see all of my favorite shades of pink from premier