Okay, as you all know, my super sweet brother came down to the Triangle a couple of weekends ago to help paint. We (and by "we", I mean mostly him) painted all the walls and ceilings in the master bedroom, kitchen, and living room...which is definitely the vast majority of our house. I am still amazed that all of that got done in one weekend. Nonetheless, almost 2 weeks later, the house is still not completely back in order. We (Andrew & me) got kind of sloppy when painting the living room and didn't make as much of an effort to have the dropcloths down in all the right places before we started painting. We learned in the kitchen that the paint drops came up easily with a fingernail...but that would be the bigger ones. The fine mist produced by slopping a heavy roller on the wall produced MANY of those little drops that are all over the place. It would take me a week crawling around the perimeter of the room with my fingernail to try to get it all up. We've tried mopping, using the abrasive side of the mop to scrub, those scratchy little squares, you name it. To say the least, we are deeply regretting our laziness in not securing all the dropcloths before we went to town painting. We still need to get some furniture for the bedroom and living room and re-hang all the artwork/decor/photos. Lastly, we plan to put up some trim/crown molding in all these rooms too. We know that will really complete the room and make all the lines look so much cleaner. No matter how careful you are, with textured walls & ceilings, there is NO way to make a perfect paint line at the seams. So, that's why the title of the post is the "Pre" After Pictures. It probably also doesn't come as a surprise to say that the colors don't look exactly as they do in person. They also don't do the rooms justice in terms of showing how much brighter they are now than they were before with the flat, tan paint everywhere.
Bedroom - Before (well, not really...I had already taken everything down & there are samples on the wall)
Bedroom - After
This is the only room we're not totally sure about yet. The color looked gorgeous on the swatch and when I had painted it on one wall, but when we put it on all 4 and then painted the ceilings, it turned out a little more sky-like than we would have liked. Andrew thinks there should be clouds on the wall and feels like it looks like a 17 year old girl's room. We plan on dark, more masculine furniture and maybe a little darker curtains. I think that will tone it down a bunch.
Living Room (i.e. "The Dungeon") - Before
Living Room - After (and NO, that is not burnt orange)
Believe it or not, the new accent wall was from the same swatch as the previous color, it's just the lightest of the three that were on there. The walls are now a warm, cream color. That room definitely is much brighter, although some recessed lighting would still be nice.
Kitchen - Before
Kitchen - After (to show the color, the whole room was not photo-ready)
We LOVE this green. There's good chance it will go in the nursery too. We still would love to paint the cabinets, but that will be a huge undertaking. I think a simple change in hardware could tide us over for a while. They already look better against the green walls than they did on the tan.
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