It's not easy being green

So, a couple months ago I decided on a general color scheme for the main floor of my house.  This is it:

I mean, I'm obviously not going to follow this verbatim, but this is more or less what I'm going for.  I love all of these colors and think it'll just make the room feel really warm.  Bonus: most of the colors are already there, so it's not like I have to spend a bunch of money to totally overhaul everything.  I decided I needed to bring a little more green into my color scheme to lighten things up, which was previously mostly in the red, orange, and brown areas of the spectrum.  The addition of green - at least so far - has taken the form of little accents here and there: a vase, spice rack, and some throw pillows.

First up: vase.  In a sort of random burst of energy, I went to Value Village initially to drop some purged items off as a donation, and ended up walking out with a ceramic vase and a wooden spice rack for approximately $6 total.  I wish I had thought to take pictures of them in their original state, but alas, I did not, so I'll just have to describe them to you.

The vase was (poorly) painted this cream color as a background, with pale pink and light green flowers carved on top of it.  I had seen an idea on Pinterest (shoutout!) about painting vases like this with carved flowers, so I thought I'd try my hand at it, using colors that I liked from my color scheme.  I thought it would look sort of vintage-y, plus add a little kick to the room.  Here's a couple shots of it after being primed, and then with the background color:

I'm not totally crazy about the color spray paint I got for the background color.  Next time I think I'll try harder to go to an actual art store to find a larger selection of spray paint than the ones that are kept under lock and key at the Har Mar Michael's.  I literally think the saleswoman sized me up and decided I was *not* likely to go tag some buildings before opening up the cage and selling me the spray paint.

And then, the finished product:

Not perfect, but good enough for me.  So, then it was spice rack time.  Again, no shot of the original (sorry), but here it's being primed:

And then here's the finished product, in its mise en scene.

And as with the vase, I wish I had had the patience to seek out some other paint alternatives or been smart enough to think of mixing my paint color to get exactly what I wanted, but...I wasn't.  Meh.

My last little splash of green that I added were a few throw pillows on the couch and chair in the living room.  I had had these sort of ugly and boring, monochrome throw pillows that came with the couch, but I figured replacing those was one really easy way of changing up the look a bit, so I donated those and bought several cheap and brightly-colored pillows at Pier One.

Once the much-anticipated window seat is built, I'll have to buy some more pillows - hopefully they still have some that kind of match.  Project Green = Mission Accomplished.