Good bye mustard yellow dinning room

Color Selection Method

Here's what indecision looks like  :)

 

 

And then finally, we have a winner!

 

UPDATE:

Unfortunately, while a color decision has been made, no actual progress has been, so our house will look like a patchwork quilt for the foreseeable future!

House Paint

Well the summer is almost over, but we are finally getting around to painting the house. We had originally tried to sand the cedar shingles (the house is cedar shakes on the second floor and stucco on the first), but discovered that was just not going to work. The new plan is to paint the first floor, and then pull all the old shingles off (saving any that are still in good condition) and install new shingles pre-painted.

We've decided to use Behr paint (they were having a pretty decent sale over Labor Day) - Shady Willow for the main color, and then Red Bluff and a cream for the trim and accents. Hopefully will look something like this:




This is obviously not our house, but it has some of the same type of elements. Keep your fingers crossed - we're still hoping to get (most of it) done before snow!

Living Room Progress Report

Well, there are still some finishing touches to be done, but the living room is pretty much done. Before it was a very dark green. Now, it's a very light gold green - here's the current . . .


We love the paint color and we're very happy now that we've taken out the fireplace insert. Still working on trying to figure out the best placement for the furniture - might have to eventually swap it out for something new, but that's not currently in the budget.




Insert was still there . .


And without the insert!

Very Slow Progress

So I have been very bad about updating, I know, but the truth is we've been moving at a pace at which even snails would scoff and I really wanted to wait until the living room was completely finished to "reveal" it.

Amazingly, although in the past we've managed to do most of a house in a few weeks, we have yet to complete the painting part of the project. I'm going to blame it on the dreaded dark green paint, though it may also have to do with the fact that we are complete procrastinators who only work quickly if given an unmovable deadline. We are probably 95% done - we just have some touch ups to do on the trim and the doors. Dishearteningly, however, we've just read that we should give the paint on our bookshelves a month to "cure." (Anyone have some hard data on this?) Ugh, I so want to unpack the many boxes of books we have littering the living room, kitchen, hallway, but on the other hand, I have experienced peeling paint on book shelves, or items "stuck" to shelves where the paint pulls away when you go to move them. So I am going to do my best to wait the recommended month, but I am not sure I am going to make it. We are also waiting on the delivery of our rug from the cleaners - who knew that would take over two weeks?

We are very happy with the color we chose - Behr "Oat Straw," which is sort of a greenish gold beige? That description might not sound great, but I think it looks very nice up on the wall. Will definitely take a few pictures soon, even if only very small glimpse shots.