BRIGHT LIGHT!

We still think it's super bright but it's green... and it's not easy being green :)  I love it but it doesn't really match the "calmness" of the living room.  Does that matter?  Is it okay to have different emotions in rooms that are connected by a doorway?  What do you think?  I'm still trying to figure out what to do as far as window treatments.  I'll be putting up the blue curtains that we had up for the time being just so that there is some privacy... even if it isn't "pretty".

From the door.

Isn't that blanket door attractive?  Ugh.  Some day a real door!

From the fridge corner.

From the living room door.

A little project...

Painted white and green knob tops.

Should have painted this a LONG time ago.  I love it.

Now mind you... I'm not done...  I need window treatments.  I'm thinking of painting the table, the sideboard, and maybe even the cupboards and cabinets.  I'd love new flooring, counter tops and appliances too but that's not in the budget right now.

Don't forget to look at the before pictures to see what we've been living in for the past five years and it only took three days to flip it into this :)

Day 2

Today I spackled, primed, and even managed to get the first coat on all the trim and the bead board.  Yes, I painted the bead board.  Originally I wasn't going to... but then, after some late night searching online it looks better to me!

Tomorrow... I'm thinking a 2nd layer on the trim and bead board and crossing my fingers on getting into the COLOR :)

I HATE WALLPAPER!

Ugh.  Thankfully this is the last room that has this stupid wallpaper in it from the previous owners of the house.  Well there is some in the basement but we like it :)


Before pictures:

What this really means is that this is the 2nd to last room that hasn't had "our touch" put on it yet.  When we moved in just over 5 years ago we worked immediately on our living room since that was the world's biggest eye sore!  Then we worked on the master bedroom, the upstairs bathroom, the down stairs bathroom and the guest bedroom (hmmm guess I didn't blog that!?!?!).  This left only our kitchen and the third bedroom.

I was able to get a bunch of free samples of paint from Glidden that added up to be a gallon of paint.  Thankfully a few of my friends live in apartments and can't or won't paint so I was able to use their addresses to send my sample to them.

I'll post more... but I hate wallpaper as of now.