Popcorn's Project

I always have projects going on around here. This summer's project is to transform the "music" room (the room with the piano in it) into a room that I actually like. I've taken some pictures of the first steps: We removed the carpet. Rented a floor sander to sand the dripped paint, spackle, and whatever else the construction guys left on the floor 23 years ago when the house was built because they knew carpet was going down. We wrapped the piano thoroughly, draped and taped plastic over the doorways, opened the window and set up a fan to blow out the residual dust...and he sanded for four hours. I'm happy to say it worked! The floor is now a paintable surface. Pophub now has to fill in the holes where the tack board that was holding down the carpet. Soon as that's done, we'll paint the walls a new color. For the previous 9 years the room was the red color you see in the Christmas pic above *also note carpet that's now gone

The new color will be Ben Moore's Woodlawn blue, isn't it nice? The room will look so much larger and brighter than that dark red. I'm so ready for the change!The floor will be painted this color Ben Moore's Brown Sugar then topped with a darker glaze to give some blackish tints. Here's Brown Sugar: (it's really darker than this swatch)

I am trying to decide whether I should paint the bookshelves brown sugar, a lighter color on the same color strip called "stone", or just leave them white. What do you think?? Please cast your expert vote on poll taker at top of page right. Thanks!