Living Room Painted

When we moved into our house most of the main living areas were painted a light grey-blue. I felt like I was living on a naval vessel with all that grey around. Where it wasn't grey it was white patching - even better! These pictures were taken when we had just moved in before Christmas, hence the Christmas tree.

On Friday we painted the living room. We were fortunate to have two missionaries from our church come to help out. They arrived at our home in time for some lunch and then the painting began. I had washed the walls that morning to get rid of all the cobwebs and dirt. As I mentioned a previous post, we took inspiration from our puppies for the paint colours. I'm so pleased with how it turned out. We still have accents to do but the overall feeling is so much warmer. I wish we hadn't put the dark brown as high as we did. We had stopped at 3'4" but I think 3' might have been better. We'll be putting a border between the two colours though so I think it will all work out. I thought that I had taken some more pictures of the finished product but I guess I didn't. At the point in this picture the bottom needed one more coat of paint. I finished that on Saturday, as well as a few minor touch-ups.

Now I know that I'll be showing just how much of an amateur I am but I decided that I'd use a paint edger that I had in my tool box. I had used it a few years ago and figured I'd give it a try here. I really like it. Maybe my problem is that I don't use good enough quality paintbrushes but I find that the coverage with the brushes is never quite as even as I would like. The coverage with the edger is great.