PAINTING FOOLS!

 This is our greatroom when it was staged for sale in 2011...days before we bought it. The wall color is somewhere between a peachy beige and calamine lotion! With the southwestern sun rays coming in the windows, it's TOO PINK FOR ME! But it took me 2 & 1/2 long years to "gut it up" and paint it. Wouldn't have been such a daunting task except that ALL THE ROOMS AND ALL THE CEILINGS WERE PAINTED THIS COLOR! Yikes!

So here is the "after"...a color called "Crème Brulee." No pink is sight. Throughout this 2 week painting ordeal, we managed to paint the hallway & closet, the master bedroom, closet and en suite bath,  the main bath & laundry area, the kitchen and the dining area. All with 2 gallons plus one quart of Miller Evolution paint!

Then being overcome by paint fumes, I guess (tho' this paint does very little off gassing), Mr. A got the great idea to paint a stipe on the ceiling to define the kitchen area and mimic a slightly dropped ceiling. In person it does work nicely. It fools your eyes. I guess that's why it's called "faux painting." So ignoring the guest bedroom and office bedroom, we have put away our paint rollers for awhile and are trying to "uncrick" our necks. Those ceilings are murder, not to mention marking and taping the double set of stripes!