Painting Party

We finally painted the living room last weekend! It looks so great and after the painting was finished Tony installed some of the baseboard trim. The room is really starting to come together. Although you can see in some of these pictures one major project still to be completed is the fireplace. (More on that to come in a later post). You'll note that I'm carrying Iris around while painting. We were using our favorite paint brand, American Pride, which has very low VOCs and no detectable odor so it is really safe to be around.

Projects in Progress: Bedroom Part Ib

We found a color....and I've got just the guy to paint it :)

"The" color is called Brittany Blue and it is the one immediately to the left of Tony's head in this picture (your left not his).  Isn't he cute in his painter's hat? :)  I can't wait to share pictures of the finished product!

Paint Shopping...

...is hard!  After over an hour of reviewing paint swatches we bought a quart-sized sample of one color that we were liked for our bedroom.  It is the color "Petite Blue" at this link. We are looking for a soothing blueish, grayish, greenish color that will be subdued but not too gloomy considering that it is always raining here!

I think it might be too dark but I'm so eager to have the walls painted so we can move onto the floors and finish up our room (so we can finish up the next room, and so on).  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it works once its up on the walls.  It will be kind of hard to tell without a light fixture installed yet. Hmmm maybe that needs to happen before we decide on a color?  It sure would be nice to have the light on while we are painting too! :)