Becca of Adventures in Decorating shares her ranch-style home just outside Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Paint, slipcovers, and a softer palette changed rooms once filled with dark-stained furniture and red, gold, and green. The photographs and first-person account below are Becca’s.
A dining room with a lighter spring palette
When we moved here almost six years before this tour, I loved red, gold, and green, and most of our furniture had cherry or walnut stain. The year before these photographs, I began moving toward lighter colors.
The dining room once had metallic chocolate walls, cherry-stained furniture, and striped red, gold, and green chair cushions. This is its softer spring look.
A painted bookcase in the sitting room
Across from the dining room, the sitting room received the same treatment. The bookcase had a walnut stain before I painted it with Annie Sloan chalk paint.
Slipcovers and a custom-built mantel
Slipcovers changed the great room without replacing the furniture. My cotton duck covers from Bed Bath & Beyond had held up well with our six-year-old playing on the seating.
The fireplace mantel began as a shallow shelf and an arched cutout. I designed a new mantel and had it custom-built a few years before the tour. Here it is decorated for Easter.
This entry piece also received Annie Sloan Old White paint.
Two-tone kitchen cabinets and homemade shelves
I painted the upper maple cabinets Benjamin Moore White Dove, then added one coat of Annie Sloan Old White. I kept the lower cabinets in their warm maple finish for the time being. At the time of this tour, I was considering painting them Old White or Chateau Grey, like the island.
I also built three shelves where a single cabinet had been. They give me a place to change the accessories with the seasons.
A sunny breakfast room
Morning light streams into the breakfast room. I painted the dry-bar cabinets Annie Sloan Chateau Grey.
A refreshed bedroom and beadboard in the mudroom
Off the kitchen is our bedroom, which I had recently painted. We replaced the ceiling fan with a drum-shade chandelier.
The mudroom had received a makeover a few years earlier with beadboard. More painting was on my list, while the bathroom was still being worked on and is not shown here.
A sports-themed bedroom and a separate playroom
Our son’s bedroom has a sports theme.
His playroom used to be a guest room. This photograph shows its earlier arrangement; when I shared the tour, we were updating it as he grew. My husband’s office also occupies a former bedroom.
A screened porch and a patio for grilling
These porch photographs were taken the previous year. I painted the fireplace Old White here, too, and looked forward to using the room again once the spring pollen eased.
The patio gives us another place to sit while my husband cooks at the grill.
Visit Becca at Adventures in Decorating for more of her decorating projects.
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