A New Look

It's been almost a year since I last posted on this blog.  It's been a busy year with lots of ups and downs.  It's appropriate that this post is titled "A New Look" since blogger has also been updated.

Tim and I moved into our first house September 2011 and immediately added Pepper to the mix.  A year later, we added Rolo and life has been busy!!  Two dogs is a lot of work and a lot of fun!  I'm amazed at how opposite these dogs are: big/little, light/dark, smart/not-so-smart.  It's interesting to see the characteristics of their breed showing more.  Pepper is a digger, Rolo is a barker and a total bird dog!  Anytime he sees a bird, he gets so focused on the bird.

The main reason for the post is to share the transformation of our living room.  When we first moved in, the living room was painted terribly.   Paint was on the ceiling, baseboards, and door trim.  It looked atrocious!  As an interior design teacher, I was mortified having my house look like that, but we had little time and resources to do anything about it at the time.

This picture was taken a month after we moved in for our Halloween house warming party.  This shows the ugly poop brown color of the wall.

Well, all that changed this week!  We finally decided on paint colors and a style and got to work.  I started taping in the afternoon and was planning on painting the next day.  Tim is a total night owl, so we started painted at 7pm that night and ended at 11:30pm.

The color options.

Tim spackling and Rolo relaxing under the scaffolding.

I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't sure if I liked the color when we finished, thinking it was too close to white but went to bed and it's grown on me.  Same story with the stripes.  They looked great in a picture and then I wasn't sure if I liked them after they were painted.  It takes a couple of days to get used to any change and now I LOVE my stripes.  They are so fresh and bright.  They are the colors of waves and it makes me miss the ocean.

              

The inspiration room.                                              Goober, my little helper!                .  

After the tape came off!

  

The room isn't finished yet.  The previous curtains don't match and were just blah, so I went to the Interwebs to look for something better.  I love shopping online, but it's really hard to buy textiles online.  I couldn't decide which ones would look best and Tim wasn't opinionated, only supportive.  "Those look good.  Do you like them?  Get the ones you like."  So, I got three!  In the meantime, I've loved having the window open and letting light in.  Tim and I are in a constant battle about curtains and blinds being open vs closed.  Think of the fairies in Sleeping Beauty changing Aurora's dress from pink to blue and that's what it's like here, minus the magic.   I also have plans for a photo gallery wall.  Maybe I should have called this post "If you give a mouse a cookie!"  I'm excited to see how everything will look as it evolves.