Painting our blues away, part 2

After we conquered the family room and kitchen, we moved on to the living room and front entry. We wanted to do green but had a hard time finding the right one. I think we bought 6 or 8 quarts of different greens by the time we were done (too bad they weren't making paint samples yet!). They were either too sage or too forest, so eventually we took a dark shade and toned it down with our ceiling white until we got a shade we liked.


It somehow took many months to actually complete this painting project. We have a special knack for getting a project 90% finished and then leaving it for months (or in one case, 3 years). We really think it just adds to the "charm" of our little contractor-grade house to have sloppily 1/2 finished projects everywhere.


So we lived with the living room done, but not the front entry. Mostly because of this...


Stairwells are not fun! We likely won't repaint the hall ever. Notice the ugly hallway light fixture... more on that later.