Paintin'

The living room us now adorned in the hue of "Bag of Gold", which is not really gold at all but rather a nice mellow, Earthy brown color. It is spot on the color we imagined it while looking at a billion and ten paint swatches. Much better than the color they had on before, which was something along the lines of "beige-almond-rosy-blandification" (not sure who made that color but it wasn't for us).


The bedroom, however, is at this point a shockingly in your face green! We wanted a natural, organic, mellow green and ended up with a color that might be called "mint chocolate chip" if we decide to splatter brown dots all over. It is a very nice color, but will take a little getting used to. Hopefully once the floors are stained and furniture moved in it will be less "wow".


Kids, if you ever thought you liked the look or texture or whatever about wallpaper - Don't. Stop immediately and make a mental note to self that wallpaper is extremely evil. This innocent little strip around the perimeter of the smallest room in the house was more excruciating than having teeth pulled (or whatever other "worse than..." analogy you can come up with). We bought the whole kit - scraper, piranha scouring tool, Dif and still ended up resorting to using our iron against a kitchen towel steaming and scraping this monstrosity inch by inch. The room looked like vagrants lived there after we were done scraping.


Next session we hope to finish all the trim around the doors/windows and stain the floors. Move-in will soon follow...


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