I was scrolling through Pinterest and Facebook for table refinishing ideas in December when I came across these Christmas cookies. The color scheme was perfect! We’ve been doing some upgrades to paint and furniture here and there recently, and I knew when I saw the cookies that I’d found the basic colors and inspiration colors that I’d been seeking.
Imagine that! Finding a color scheme in cookies.
The past couple of Colors of the Year include Evergreen Fog and Blank Canvas – both of which are variations in this collective scheme. We’d used a green and white in our master bedroom, and the nightstands needed a makeover from the 1980s whitewashed pine look. Everything has been everywhere as we have been cleaning up, cleaning out, and recovering pieces, but here is the before picture of one of our two matching nightstands, below.
A quick few coats of chalk paint in Swiss Coffee (Behr) for the base and Evergreen Fog (Sherwin Williams) for the knobs and feet turned out just like I’d envisioned these pieces for a room-brightening change.
I’ve applied the sealing wax, which won’t be completely cured for 2 weeks but enough for initial use after 24 hours. We can’t wait to have a place for our bedside lamps once again!
Next on the list is a chest of drawers in our guest bedroom, where the color scheme includes gray and black. That will be for another day – – meanwhile, I’ll be looking for some new paint colors on the cookie pages.
Common Threads 
Swiss coffee and Evergreen Fog. I love this! And the nightstand is beautiful. I once had a class of 4th grade girls invent nail polish colors based on a novel we were reading. They came up with such great ideas! It would be fantastic to have designer crayons like this – Swiss coffee mountains veiled in an evergreen fog sky!
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Thank you so much! Paint chip poetry is one of my favorite kinds, and your comment makes me think of how much I enjoy taking paint sample cards and using the color in a poem. Nail polish colors based on a novel sounds like SO much fun! I’d have read much more closely in school if I knew someone would let me name nail polish colors. Fun, fun, fun!
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Hi Kim! The novel is Honey by Sarah Weeks. We did have such fun mixing and naming colors. My favorite was called Unicorn Kisses. I definitely think children should be hired to come up with inventive color names. They often are much more creative than their adult counterparts!
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