Sunday, November 13, 2011

M.I.A. for a reason

OK so I know I have failed miserably at blogging lately, but I have good reason, I promise! I have been busy doing stuff around the house. The most major undertaking involved some paint.....more like 3 gallons of it (!!) My mom helped me transform the first floor of our house from this:


To this:

Once I finally decided on a paint color, the rest was cake!

#2 (baguette by Sherwin Williams) was the winner by the way.

3 full days of work later, our lower level was no longer just one boring flat color.

I had read that in larger combined areas (kitchen, dining room, living room) you want to avoid too many different wall colors because it will interrupt the flow of the rooms. But I did decide to add a little punch of color on two of the kitchen walls that are pretty isolated from the other walls.


I pulled the greening/blueish/grayish (this paint is seriously like a chameleon....it changes colors all day) from our dining room rug and accent chair (again, going for the 'flowing' effect between the different 'rooms').



And just 2 weeks after I thought I could not pick up a paint brush or roller for at least a couple months, I did it! I just had to paint the last room on the first floor that mom and I did not get to a couple weeks ago (I guess the kitchen, living room, dining room and entryway was enough for one weekend.)

I went one step lighter on the paint chip for the living room/dining room to a color called Camelback (also Sherwin Williams). This took the half-bathroom from this:


To this.


I'm only about 99% done though, those little purple sticky notes are to mark spots that need touch up later this week :)

What a relief to have all the painting done! There have been several other small detail updates that I will post about soon. Have a great week!