Sherwin Williams Stardew: A Home Interior Makeover

Transform your home with a Sherwin-Williams Stardew blue interior home makeover. See the stunning Before and After photos in this open home floor plan.

Sherwin Williams Stardew

SW Stardew is a beautiful and popular paint color with blue hues. Stardew is a soft, soothing blue-green shade that is reminiscent of a tranquil coastal retreat. It has a calming and serene quality that can bring a sense of relaxation to any space.

This versatile blue shade color can be used in various rooms, including bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms, and even kitchen cabinets. Whether used as an accent or the primary wall color, Sherwin Williams Stardew’s blue-gray undertones add a touch of freshness and tranquility to any interior design scheme.

Interior Home Makeover

Well, friend, this post is way overdue!

Back in November, we stripped our home of its contents and welcomed in a painter to set up shop.

Prepping for well over a week…

Then spray painting our walls and trim with Sherwin William’s Stardew Blue

and Benjamin Moore’s Chantilly Lace.

An entire interior home makeover.  And we couldn’t be more thrilled with how it all turned out!

Meet our local painter, Jay of Mud, Patch, and Paint LLC.

Where We Started

For a quick recap, we got a few local estimates and were thrilled to find Jay, who was both affordable and available! My overall goal for this painting project was to paint our home’s interior a light blue-gray color and to brighten up the ceilings and trim with a fresh, bright white.

Wow, has it been a long time since we’ve been able to find anyone available to do quality work?

How about you? Are you struggling to find workers where you are?

We were quoted an approximate 3-week time frame for completion, and we planned to stay at our home in Maine while the work was being done.

The kitchen, living room, dining room, sitting room (open floor plan), two guest bedrooms (trim and ceiling only), bathroom, and three hallways were to be painted.

We planned a second project for the bedrooms, which included wallpapering. See it in this 3 Wallpaper Bedroom Designs Emblematic of a Cozy Vermont Inn post.

How I Chose Sherwin-Williams Stardew

I went to work to find the perfect blue-gray paint color for our home.

Dreaming of having an interior light blue-gray color for years now,

I settled on Sherwin-Williams Stardew. A light blue, green, gray color that is both soothing and relaxing.

I must have tested over 12 different shades of blue before settling on SW Stardew.

I was able to get small tester paint jars to try out at home from our local hardware store for about $6.00 a jar.

It’s well worth this small investment of time and money to order samples in the actual paint colors.

Before making my final decision, I tested all the shades of blue in different parts of our home to determine their light reflective value.

All in different rooms and with various lighting.

At the store, Sherwin-Williams Stardew appeared to have a hint of a green undertone and looked a bit darker than what I was looking for. But when I got it home and put it on my walls, it was such a soft and warm blue, green-gray color that I just loved it; it was the perfect color for us.

There were so many color resources to choose from at our local hardware store that it was actually overwhelming.

Sherwin Williams Stardew Blue is a soothing and tranquil shade that evokes a sense of calm and serenity. It is reminiscent of clear blue skies and peaceful waters, making it a perfect choice for creating a relaxing and inviting atmosphere in any space.

Every home is different! What looks good in one home may not look the same in yours. Testing the colors out on your own walls is key.

Sherwin Williams Stardew Coordinating Colors

Next, I chose Benjamin Moore’s Chantilly Lace, a pure white that pairs well with blue paint colors.

I think my husband likes the Chantilly Lace even more than Sherwin William’s perfect shade of Stardew…

Our trim before Benjamin Moore’s Chantilly Lace was Alabaster, which was on the creamy and yellow side of white. You may see more in the post, White Paint Colors for Walls.

Another white that I like is Benjamin Moore’s Simply White. It’s just a smidge creamier than the Chantilly Lace. We painted our walls Simply White at our Home in Maine, as the home is older, and I wanted more of a vintage look on the plaster walls and ceilings. But again, it’s just a tad creamier, barely enough for you to even tell unless they are side by side.

Sherwin Williams Stardew Painting Preparations

Walls & Shelving Removal

We prepared our home as best we could by removing everything from the walls and shelves, including two shelves that hung over some windows and doors that I never cared much for. And boy, did that declutter and open up this kitchen space nicely.

We were then able to repurpose the shelving at The Vintage Soul, where my vintage window booth resides. You may see more in the post Vintage Booth Winter Window Display.

Painter Preparations

When our painter, a one-man show, first arrived, he went to work prepping the entire flooring of the home.

Did you know that only 20% of a painter’s labor is painting, and the other 80% is surface preparations?

He then prepped the interior of our home by wrapping and taping up all the furniture, filling in all the holes, and sanding.

All this prep work took about one week. Spray painting takes a great deal more preparation than a roller and brush painting requires. But the time it takes to paint is greatly diminished.

The painter then started the spray painting process by painting the ceilings and trim first.

Here’s a little video of the spray painting for you. Don’t get dizzy!

Wow hah?

Here’s a similar video of the ceiling being spray painted.

Third, from when he painted the kitchen island, the Sherwin Williams Stardew blue.

It then took about a day to spray paint the Sherwin Williams Stardew blue paint onto the walls, followed by two more days of touch-ups and clean-ups.

A big thank you to our painter, Jay Oullette of Mud, Patch, and Paint LLC, for filming and taking photos of it all while we stayed out of the way in Maine, well, mostly…

As I write this post in early February, we are once again back in Maine while Jay paints the trim and ceilings of our sunroom, master bathroom, and master bedroom. The sunroom will be Benjamin Moore’s Wedgewood Gray with Chantilly Lace walls and trim. The Chantilly white is part of the pure whites collection of paints.

You may see this sunroom paint makeover now in the post, 4 Season Sunroom Makeover with Grand Mountain Views.

See the before and painting preparations for this sunroom project here:

3 Bedroom Wallpaper Project

The wallpapering is now complete, and you may see it all in the post, 3 Wallpaper Bedroom Designs Emblematic of a Cozy Vermont Inn.

Sherwin Williams Stardew | After Interior Results

Here are the first pictures taken and sent to me, unfiltered by the painter, of the Sherwin-Williams Stardew walls in our home’s interior.

Lighting is always so tricky. I honestly feel like it looks much brighter and softer in person. But I wanted to share all these beautiful Stardew color shades in various lighting conditions so you can see the inherent differences.

Our painter described Stardew as a dependent color.

The Chantilly Lace white walls trim brings out the blue in the Sherwin Williams Stardew paint with a fresh look. It is much lighter during daylight than in the evenings. I love that it has different shades at different times of the day. These two shades have become some of my favorite colors.

Clean Up

Now, it’s time to pull everything back together. It’s been a slow yet steady pace. This is the fun part for me, and I’ve been taking my time and enjoying the process. Another reason this post has taken me so long to write.

Truthfully, interior spray painting is a messy job. If I had known ahead of time how messy it would be, I would have planned on hiring a home cleaner to come in before returning home. There’s a lot of dust from the sanding, our interior windows all needed a good cleaning, and professional cleaners have all the necessary supplies to tackle a job like this better than I did…

Here are the first of many projects and design changes I have been working on.

Sherwin Williams Stardew Home Entryway

The Chantilly Lace is a clean and bright white, a beautiful color for trim, built-in bookshelves, doors, wainscoting, hallways, and bathrooms.

Here is the Stardew SW matched with the Chantilly Lace on our wainscoting as you first enter the home.

This old Vermont Grocery sign is from a local country store that I found on Facebook Marketplace years back.

Built-in Bookshelves with Benjamin Moore’s Chantilly Lace

The first space I decorated once we returned home and cleaned up was our built-in bookshelves in the living room for the holidays. You may see more in the post, How to Decorate Bookshelves for a Vintage Christmas.

I couldn’t be happier with Benjamin Moore’s Chantilly Lace on the built-ins. They are so bright, clean, and fresh!

I love how it stands out next to the Sherwin Williams Stardew dreamy slate blue over our French doors leading into the guest bedrooms.

You may also enjoy this 12 Table Topics with Thrifted Tea and Toast Fanfare with this table decorated in blue and white.

This inspired me to decorate our built-in bookshelves for the holidays and beyond with musical instruments, highlighting this nostalgic old photo. You may see more in the post, How to Decorate with Old Musical Instruments.

A New Perspective with Sherwin Williams Stardew

It’s amazing how a new coat of paint and emptying your entire home can give you a brand-new perspective on things. With this new viewpoint, I decided to flip two rooms, moving our sitting room into the dining room and the dining room into what was our sitting room.

I found this vintage pine table at The Sage Farms Antique Christmas pop-up while I was back in Maine. You may see more in the post, A Vintage Christmas Haul and 3 Holiday Wreaths.

And the table displayed for the holidays in the post, Cozy Winter Dining Room with Ski Lodge Decor | Get the Look.

These new sheepskins arrived from Overland creating an even more cozy vibe to this new dining room space, and I think Ella has decided to move in.

Seriously, can you believe this?

She’s so funny. With the new sheepskins and decorating this room, Ella had to be right in the middle of it all.

Vintage Hutch

Another project was to decorate this vintage cupboard that was now in the sitting room. You may see more in the post, How to Style a Vintage Cabinet Hutch with Wedding China in 7 Simple Steps.

And just after I finished styling it, I decided to move it into our new dining room space. This is one of the reasons it’s taken me so long to get this post out. I’m taking my time and enjoying the process.

You may also enjoy the post, Romantic Antique Table Setting with Thoughtful Design in the dining room.

DIY Dishy Kitchen Hooks

And if you have made it this far, I know you are going to love these Dishy Kitchen Hooks You Can DIY in Minutes hanging in our kitchen today.

One of my favorite recent projects.

Blue and White Platter Wall

Do you love vintage dishes and platters?

Blue and white home decor?

How about this Blue and White Asymmetrical Vintage Platter Wall?

These vintage platters over our mantel showcase Sherwin Williams Stardew walls now in our sitting room.

I still have a lot of decorating to do in the kitchen, sitting room, and living room, which I’ll be sharing right here as we move along. It’s just not quite ready for prime time just yet…

I hope you’ll join me in following along!

See how our sunroom turned out in the Vintage Eclectic Decor Meets Craft Room Design post.