More Mellow Yellow

Wow we could not be happier about how this room turned out ... we flipped the furniture ... David ran a cable outlet to the big wall so we are able to put our entertainment center and TV on that wall and then we moved our couch to the small wall ... the room is much more ballanced and there seems to be a lot more room ... and with all of our furniture back in place the color looks even better ...

but the best part of the whole room is David's half wall ... the wood shelf he put on there is true craftsmanship ... it came out so very beautiful ... it really does something for the whole room ... ripping out that wall was one of the best decisions we made about the house so far and that shelf is really one of David's most beautiful pieces of work ...

Even more this weekend ...

It was a busy weekend in this household ... not only did we do the fireplace room yesterday ... today we moved all the boxes out of the guestroom ... painted the trim at the front door (finally, we have had blue painters tape on the windows and walls for months now) and all the trim in the guest room ... we also hung our new Nantucket Window Coverings by Hunter Douglas (shameless plug) ... they are even blackout shades so our guests can sleep in ... :)

Now we just need to get furniture set up in the guest room ... which since we bought a new King size bed for us we have a wonderful Queen size bed for in there ...

it is amazing but things are finally coming together ... I can hardly believe it ...

The Fireplace Room

There was supposed to be some huge snow storm today that was supposed to start at 6 AM ... so our plan was to spend the day painting the fireplace room ... above the chair rail is a beautiful cream color called Pot Of Cream ... below the chair rail is a deep red called Chianti ...

Well the snow didn't happen till we were finished painting the room ... but on the upside once we got started we didn't stop till we were finished ...

to be honest I hated the Chianti when it first went on the wall ... but David was encouraging so I kept cutting the color in ... but even once he went over it with the roller I still hated it ... turns out it because a beautiful color on the second coat and now I just love the room ...

It will be a long time till that room is finished the way we want it (club chairs, built in bookcase) but for now it is looking beautiful ...

They Call Me Mellow Yellow

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE how the great room has turned out ... it is just spectacular ... even if I spent 9 hours and David spent a record 12 hours painting this room ... in the end it was totally worth it ...

in one of the pictures you can see the samples we put on the wall ... they were a lot darker than what we wound up buying and I am so glad ... because this color is gorgeous ... it would have been great if it hadn't taken so long but in the end I think we won ... mostly because we have decided after we paint this house we are never going to do this again ... I know there was talk of that when we were working on the condo but this time we mean it ...

at least we have a beautiful soothing room to relax in now while we paint the rest of the place ...

Delicious Guestroom

Well tonight when I got home from work we broke out the first can of paint for one of the rooms ... Milk Chocolate for the guestroom ... and let me tell you the pictures don't do it justice ... it came out just dreamy ... I don't think either one of us could be happier with the color ... I think be cause we loved the color so much it motivated us to get it done ... but at this point I am exhausted ... here are the "in progress" pictures ... I'll put more up after we move all the boxes out of the room and actually set it up as a bedroom

Painting the Guestroom