Much better

We finished the last bits of the painting today. I love the colors - so much better than beige!

Z did a great job with our little alcove.


We still have some cleaning up to do and some pictures to hang, but here's a taste of what it will look like:






My three goofballs have such a hard time all smiling together, so I thought I'd just give you all our attempts and let you enjoy the silliness.

Paint Redo

After waking up in the middle of the night and still hating the beige, I offered my remaining two gallons to a friend and The Artist and I made a trip to Home Depot for new paint. He really has an eye for color! We settled on an olive for the dining room, a rust for the living room and a color I can't describe for the entry room. The company calls it Cork, but that just doesn't do it for me.


So much better!!!!





Gracie isn't sure what to think of all the upheaval.

The painting is going really fast, mostly because Drama Queen really wants money for the Renaissance Faire this weekend. She's working hard!

Paint

For the last 5 years we have been blessed to have a beautiful faux-finish paint on the walls of the three big joined rooms on our main floor. It looked like parchment, and we all loved it. But I found out the hard way that you can't patch faux-finish and have it look decent, and after five years there was some serious patching needed.

So we have taken on the project of repainting three large rooms with many odd angles and surfaces.




Drama Queen has decided that this is her project, and spent hours today painting and sanding the spackle that I put on.



Z-Man very much wants to help, so we let him handle the paint brush for a while.

Painting sure takes over the whole house. It's a mess getting everything away from the walls. And I'm afraid that I'm going to hate the biegeness of the rooms, but I'm afraid of making the house dark if I put up the colors I would really like.



I told Drama Queen we can always go back and add color after the beige is done. Maybe just putting the paintings back on the walls will help?