Painting our French home's shutters and bedroom

[Music] Bonjour. I hope you are all doing well. It is end of August and to me like mentally I always feel like it is the end of summer and I secretly start longing for evenings by the fire. I don't know. It's like the heat at some point is just enough and I want to cuddle up and get cozy and enjoy slow fall and winter evenings. But I'm going to the store to pick up the paint that we need for our bedroom. I am really excited to be sharing that with you in this video. I honestly feel like building and renovating this house is an endless painting job. We have done so much of it, but it is also the most exciting part of renovating. My youngest finished painting all the metal shutters around the house. We still need to do the woodwork, but we will have to wait until the heat breaks because it is really way too warm for that. And then we can have full focus on finishing our bedroom. I am so excited for this. 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I had so many other things to do that Olaf had to do it alone this time. But when we opened the can of paint, the color wasn't right. I always use either far and ball or rour. For this project, I had a fair ball color mixed on a really good quality Dutch paint that I like to use. But as you can see here, the first can we opened was not at all the right color. Fortunately, the second one was, so we could definitely start this project. And thank you to my aunt and uncle who brought the cans from us from the Netherlands when they came to visit. And here is the color. You can't really see it yet because we need to paint the walls of course, but we really like this soft beige color and it has a nice green undertone to it. Yeah, I could. And then Olaf accidentally started painting the wardrobe with the same color as well. And I said, "No, no, no. I have chosen a different color for this. I want it to have a light blue gray silvery maybe with a little hint of green. I had this color in my head and I couldn't really find it. I have Faramal and Rousour is the two brands that I work with and I ended up picking one from Rousour only to find out that with the sample that I made with the Fer and Ball one, it was actually very similar if not completely similar. So, we decided to go with the far rumble light blue that I originally picked, but Olaf was saying, "Oh, no. It's so baby blue. It's so blue." But I said, "Wait, we've got this huge light here now for the painting, but you need to always look with the natural light and the actual light that you have in your space because depending on how you hold a sample and where in the space you hold it, the color can be completely different. So, I decided when he was gone to turn off his lights and just use either the natural light coming from the window or the light that we'll have from the from the light fixtures. And then it was actually the exact color that I had in mind. So, I am sticking with this one. I'm going back to the Netherlands for family reasons. And that will be my opportunity to get this same really good quality paint in the Netherlands, but then mixed on this feron ball color. So we can finish that project in another video. Come on. I cannot wait to see what this window will look like once it is finished. I am still so happy that we stumbled upon this. We were going to custom build something, but this is so much more charming, I feel. So, I can't wait to see what this will look like once Olaf has finished painting it. spect. >> I know. Hey baby. on the side. While Olaf is doing all the painting, I am continuing to cook recipes for my new cookbook and photograph them. And today, I'm getting help from my youngest son. So, we are going to enjoy this meal together and then I can show you the painted window at the end of this video. And as a small reminder, if you want to see a preview of my new cookbook, you can become a Patreon. The link to become a Patreon is in the description below this video. I recently shared a video on my Patreon page with a preview of the new book. from other local field. Voila. There's more yet. That noise. Ola finished painting until late at night and the next day when it was daylight we could admire how beautiful it had turned out. I absolutely love this color. Let me know what you think in a comment. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you again next week.