Home improvement gone right!
When we moved in I think that the hardest decision we had to make was wall color. Everything else was an easy choice or was made easy for us. But we had to pick one color, and only one color. Anything else would have added a few mortgage payments on. Not interested. So we agonized for weeks with ideas. We did have a few days of lavender walls with yellow trim. Our saleslady very diplomatically talked us out of that. So we ended up with the beige the design center was painted. I'm pretty confident that we aren't the only ones who did this. Perhaps that's why it was that color. Either way we went with it. Now, almost 8 years later, I'm coming to really hate the beige. It's not an entirely bad color but it is a light sucking color. And ultimately it's just brown. Boring, boring brown. That nothing else in my house really coordinates with. We seem to be more of a silver family here in Hawkstone.
We have made some interesting headway in the house in getting rid of the beige. The only catch is that it seems like the same few rooms in the house keep getting painted. The living room has gone through three incarnations. We had the purple wall, then the yellow and chocolate brown theme and now blue and cream. You can't forget the disaster of the retro institutional in the bathroom, or the painters tape green. I have a bucket of paint for my bathroom that I still haven't used. And Tracy's blue intended for her room was repurposed for the living room. And now I've successfully removed the beige from my room. I still have to paint my closet but I'm thinking that it will be an after vacation project. My rooms so much happier and brighter with a nice light color. I'm glad that I finally got around to painting it. My mom did seem sad that I got rid of the red. Like the beige, I tired of it.
The only annoying thing was getting the paint. Now that I can get samples I randomly chose some colors. The guy at the paint counter was afraid to touch the paint. I get wanting to stay clean, but when you work in the paint department you need to expect a little mess. A different guy who mixed the real paint was a little strange. He had a little bit of a meltdown when I didn't want to buy the fancy paint with the primer in it. He asked if I had primer at home and took it as a personal attack when I told him I wasn't priming. I wasn't entirely impressed. This mostly makes me sad because they work at the nice quiet location that I don't have to wait too long for. I'm not entirely sure if the speed is worth it anymore.
Now the challenge is putting my room back together. I was going to hang up some pictures but the hangers are in a super safe location. That I don't know of. I put them somewhere that I wouldn't lose them, and then lost them. It feels like the story of my life! But either way I'm happy with how it all turned out and almost feel like tackling another room to change up now! Or maybe I'll just get around to painting my closet.
We have made some interesting headway in the house in getting rid of the beige. The only catch is that it seems like the same few rooms in the house keep getting painted. The living room has gone through three incarnations. We had the purple wall, then the yellow and chocolate brown theme and now blue and cream. You can't forget the disaster of the retro institutional in the bathroom, or the painters tape green. I have a bucket of paint for my bathroom that I still haven't used. And Tracy's blue intended for her room was repurposed for the living room. And now I've successfully removed the beige from my room. I still have to paint my closet but I'm thinking that it will be an after vacation project. My rooms so much happier and brighter with a nice light color. I'm glad that I finally got around to painting it. My mom did seem sad that I got rid of the red. Like the beige, I tired of it.
The only annoying thing was getting the paint. Now that I can get samples I randomly chose some colors. The guy at the paint counter was afraid to touch the paint. I get wanting to stay clean, but when you work in the paint department you need to expect a little mess. A different guy who mixed the real paint was a little strange. He had a little bit of a meltdown when I didn't want to buy the fancy paint with the primer in it. He asked if I had primer at home and took it as a personal attack when I told him I wasn't priming. I wasn't entirely impressed. This mostly makes me sad because they work at the nice quiet location that I don't have to wait too long for. I'm not entirely sure if the speed is worth it anymore.
Now the challenge is putting my room back together. I was going to hang up some pictures but the hangers are in a super safe location. That I don't know of. I put them somewhere that I wouldn't lose them, and then lost them. It feels like the story of my life! But either way I'm happy with how it all turned out and almost feel like tackling another room to change up now! Or maybe I'll just get around to painting my closet.