Our Sunroom: From SUNNY yellow to coastal cool

We've arrived and I am so happy to have arrived in a nice freshly painted home!  Selecting colors from hundreds of miles away was no easy feat, but I was so pleased to arrive and be so happy with how the colors turned out.  Rich did a great job with the help of his dad and uncle in taking this house from dark green to coastal chic in a matter of days.  We have a few more rooms to do still but I wanted to share a bit of what he did while I was away to our sun room.


From our very first walk through in this house I knew the sun room was a really fantastic bonus to this house.  It had beautiful french doors, lots of open windows, but it also had one major issue.  It was very YELLOW.  Not peaceful calm yellow, more like sunflowers exploding everywhere yellow.  The previous owner had a very different style than us (as you can see with the sunflower curtains), but we knew at the time it was nothing a coat of paint couldn't fix.

To begin with, we knew we wanted a really cool and neutral color scheme with this house.  The previous owner was very fond of green and deep earth tones, so every room in the house was going to need fresh paint.  Being loyal to sea salt, I knew we'd be using Sherwin Williams Sea Salt in at least one room. We chose to use it in the sun room and bring it into the main living area off the sun room, since it was the focal point of our house's living area.  

Here are a few colors we tested for the sun room (notice the yellow underneath..yikes!)  The top left is Sea Salt, to the right is Jogging Path, and bottom right is Healing Aloe (Benjamin Moore).  We knew the darker Jogging Path didn't fit but we were having a hard time with the other two.  Sea Salt had a bit more green blue as a base, and Healing Aloe was more blue based. Since we have had success with Sea Salt in past, we decided that was the best bet.

So here was the before of the sun room window (with the previous owners "stuff"):

After: I think it opened up the room so much!