*This is a sponsored post on behalf of Glidden® brand paint. All opinions and statements are mine.
We recently remodeled our Family Room 12 years after we moved into our 35 year old home. This room had never been my favorite because it had a bricked hearthstone with a wood burning stove. We loved using the wood burning stove in the winter, but the room was hard to arrange because of the windows and the corner stove.
I had debated about painting the brick white or tearing the brick out for a long…LONG…time. But because we couldn’t really make a decision and it was a big job, the project just sat at the bottom of our “want to do” list. Over Memorial Day of this year we suddenly had an entire free weekend. We just decided to finally get rid of the fireplace and make the room exactly how we wanted it. Because we already have 3 other fireplaces (2 gas and 1 more wood fireplace) we decided to take this one out.
We put those kids of ours to work! They actually loved it because it involved hammers, crowbars and destruction! Who doesn’t love that?!
After tearing it out, we had to repair the walls by shutting off the fireplace flue, adding sheet rock, replacing the plywood on the floor. We put ship lap on the walls (I will share how we did that in an upcoming tutorial), and added a barn door!
I have been in love with Barn Doors forever and have always wanted to incorporate them into our home. But because of the windows in our home there weren’t any places where we could put one other than this Barn Door we put in our Master Bedroom. By removing the fireplace, we freed up a wall that was perfect for a barn door.
We painted this barn door a pretty blue to add some color and interest to the room. We used Glidden Diamond in Key Largo Bay in a Semi-Gloss finish. I just love the color. It is a soft gray blue and looks so fresh next to the white ship lap!
Glidden Diamond is Glidden’s brand new interior paint. It is 100% acrylic paint and primer. Glidden Diamond provides exceptional durability and outstanding stain resistance that protects and beautifies any room in your home.
Product attributes are as follows:
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Glidden Diamond comes in the following sheens: Flat, Eggshell, Satin, and Semi-Gloss. It is also tintable to any color on the Glidden Color Palette.
I really liked using this paint. I have had a lot of experience painting and Glidden Diamond went on the wood surface so smoothly and covered the unfinished wood very evenly in just two coats. Painting unfinished wood takes some time to get it right because you need to apply a primer first. Glidden Diamond Paint contains a primer so that cuts out that extra step which saves a lot of time and work. The finished product is a smooth and beautifully finished wood door.
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Katie says
Looks amazing! So much better. I have an ugly fireplace that I want to do something about too. You’ve given me some inspiration.
The Idea Room Assistant says
Thanks so much! Good luck with your project!