Chantilly Lace Paint Benjamin Moore: A Sunroom Makeover

Transforming our sunroom with Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace paint gave the space a fresh look and a touch of pure white elegance. This color’s crisp brightness and vitality, alongside Benjamin Moore’s Wedgewood Gray, instantly revitalized the room, creating an inviting atmosphere filled with light and warmth.

Join me as I share the stunning details of this sunroom makeover!

Does Chantilly Lace have a blue undertone?

Chantilly Lace paint is also the ideal white paint color to pair with blue tones due to its crisp, clean undertones that complement and enhance the depth of blues without clashing. This pure white provides a fresh, balanced contrast, allowing blue hues to stand out beautifully in any interior space.

Cozy Sunroom Retreat

Our sunroom was being highly underutilized. It’s a room between our main living area and a gateway to our master bedroom.

Its main feature is the one wall of window frames that overlooks the Mountains from our Vermont home. Underneath the windows is a single seating bench with storage.

Another wall is adorned with built-in bookshelving and corner units on each side of the windows.

There is one flat wall and two French doors that open up into this sunroom.

This is my favorite room in the home.

But over time, it’s become a mishmash of decor, coats of paint, and in need of a complete makeover.

My Project Goals

I aimed to bring the glorious outdoor scenic colors into our four-season sunroom, creating a cozy, bright, and inviting space with color vitality.

By choosing a color from the paint store that adds a new dimension of beauty, I aimed to reflect the ever-changing hues of the mountain views, making this four-season sunroom a serene spot to enjoy blogging, reading, and crafting while enjoying nature’s splendor.

Choosing Benjamin Moore’s Chantilly Lace Paint & Wedgewood Gray

The Green Mountain views are forever altering with each day’s weather pattern. However, the overall consistent colors are greens and blues. That is why I chose Benjamin Moore’s Chantilly Lace paint and Wedgewood Gray to accent the built-in shelving and Chantilly Lace paint for the white walls and trim.

This will contrast with our open-floor plan model, in which the built-ins are Chantilly Lace paint, and the walls are Stardew Blue. See more in this Sherwin Williams Stardew: A Home Interior Makeover post.

The sunroom’s white Chantilly Lace walls will create a bright, open space, and the Wedgewood Gray will add color and depth. The Wedgewood gray will create a frame around the windows, drawing the eye outside to the views.

We also chose the most popular finish, eggshell, which is slightly more reflective than matte. The slight sheen of eggshell makes it easy to clean, making it a popular choice for living rooms and hallways.

Sunroom Before Chantilly Lace Paint

Before its transformation, this four-season sunroom featured walls painted in Bunny Gray, a color with noticeable blue undertones. It was paired with trim in Acadia White, which had yellow undertones and had grown dingy over time.

While it might have been a great choice initially, the space needed a fresh interior paint job to bring it back to life—channeling a more classic appeal with richer hues.

Chantilly Lace Paint Preparations

Chantilly Lace painting preparations began with extensive repairs to the sunroom’s ceiling, which had poorly split at its peak, and the support beam, which desperately needed attention.

Using cutting-edge technology, our painter used US Gypsum 90 Ez Sand and a blow dryer to patch all the imperfections, applying four coats over the course of nine hours.

This method effectively addressed common ceiling problems and ensured a smooth surface.

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After the repairs, both the ceiling and walls were carefully sanded to prepare for the application of Benjamin Moore paint.

To achieve beautiful results and maintain consistency with our home’s open floor plan painting project, the entire sunroom was spray painted, avoiding the use of a roller or brush and showcasing the latest technology in paint application.

The ceiling and walls were then sanded down in preparation for the sunroom’s painting.

Here’s a video of the overall preparations.

Don’t get too dizzy…

And here is how all the windows and doors were prepped for the trim’s spray painting.

With Masking Liquid H20, which is a great product!

In this sunroom makeover space, we had almost 150 window pains to mask off for the Chantilly Lace paint trim between all the doors and windows.

Painting is Under Way

After all the preparations were finished on day four, it was time to paint the ceiling first.

Did you know a painter’s labor is 80% surface preparation and 20% painting?

Chantilly Lace Paint Room Makeover

After weeks of preparation and careful attention to detail, the big day had arrived.

Our talented painter, Jay, had put in the final touches, and we were ready to head back to Vermont for the highly anticipated reveal of our sunroom’s transformation.

The room had been completely reimagined with Benjamin Moore’s Wedgwood Gray and Chantilly Lace paint, and we couldn’t wait to see the stunning results come to life.

Major Accents in this Four-Season Sunroom:

Window Mountain Views

The first standout feature of our sunroom is the breathtaking mountain views framed perfectly through a wall of windows.

To highlight this natural beauty, I used Benjamin Moore’s Chantilly Lace paint to frame the windows, drawing your eyes outward toward the stunning vistas. Chantilly Lace proved to be the perfect color to create a crisp contrast, allowing the view to take center stage.

To complete the look, the sitting bench beneath the windows was also painted in Chantilly Lace, tying the entire window frame together for a cohesive and serene effect.

Built-In Bookshelves

The second prominent feature in this four-season sunroom is the beautifully updated built-in bookshelves. Previously painted in Acadia White, they now showcase the rich, warm tones of Benjamin Moore’s Wedgwood Gray, a color that captures both blue and green hues inspired by the outdoor scenery.

This marks a complete reversal from the before space, where both the walls and built-ins were light in color.

Wedgwood Gray, much like the Stardew Blue used in our open floor plan, is a dynamic, dependent color that shifts from blue to green depending on the natural light flowing through the room.

It mirrors the changing nature of our mountain views, which transition daily with the weather and seasons. The softwood pine flooring further enhances the warmth of the space, adding a natural glow to this cozy sunroom retreat.

White Sectional

This small IKEA Ektorp white sectional perfectly complements the Chantilly Lace paint on the walls and the rich Wedgwood Gray of the built-ins, creating a crisp, clean, fresh accent in the sunroom.

Its bright, neutral tones enhance the natural light and elevate the serene atmosphere, making it the ideal piece for relaxing while enjoying the stunning views of the Green Mountains of Vermont.

Slipcovers for a Fresh Look

One of the easiest ways to keep your space feeling fresh and clean is by using slipcovers. Not only are they simple to remove and wash, but they also provide a quick way to refresh your furniture and match any new updates in your room.

For our white sectional with soft linen white slipcovers, freshly washed white slipcovers complement the Chantilly Lace trim color on the walls and the Wedgwood Gray accents, creating a crisp, polished look that ties the room together.

Whether you’re updating your space with a new paint color or just want a clean, fresh appearance, slipcovers make it easy to maintain a timeless, welcoming feel in your rooms.

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Spray Painting Interior Tip

One thing about spray painting your home’s interior is that it’s oh-so dusty! Even though everything is wrapped and protected, it does require a pretty major cleanup at the end.

I recommend asking your painter if a complete cleanup is included in the estimate. If not, plan on doing it yourself or hiring someone to come in.

The windows all needed cleaning, the wood floors needed mopping, and there was lots and lots of dusting. It can be a good day’s work.

Once the slipcovers were fresh and clean, I positioned the sectional sofa facing outward and towards the window’s view.

Sunroom Rug Choice

Next, this four-season sunroom needed a new rug.

I’m leaning towards a vintage pink rug. The challenge will be finding one large enough to fit this space. In my experience, vintage rugs can be small or extra large. And I want it to be something that will not clash with the new wallpaper in the adjacent master bedroom.

I love the vintage rugs offered at Revival and their room tool, which shows you how a particular rug will look in your space. For example, this red and blue rug is something I never would have thought of for this sunroom space.

Today, this room is complete and all decorated.

See it in this Vintage Eclectic Decor Meets Craft Room Design post.

We couldn’t be more pleased with the time-honored tradition of Benjamin Moore.

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