June 14, 2004
Inside Painting
It turns out there's an even easier way to paint a room. Hire somebody and have them do it for you!
We're glad we finally did for the living and family rooms and main entryway. It took professionals about 2.5 days to finish, probably 5 workdays total, with some biggggg ladders (we've got 20 foot ceilings).
Here's the result in the family room. We're going to totally redecorate the living room and will show you when we're done.
We repainted in a soft, sandy sort of color called French Sonnet. Really nice, warm stuff, but not slap-you-in-the-face like some of our other rooms.
We also reunited some of the furniture Stroh built for me, so now the entertainment center, the coffee table and the side table are together again, and we brought in two lamps to warm things up. Success!
Max helps to show off the warmer color better in this picture, as well as the extra polish to the room that the side table and lamp add. Not to mention a place to hold my drink. We also moved a large framed photograph of Vaduz Castle (found this online, diff. angle than my picture in the room) in Liechtenstein, transferred from the staircase wall to the family room. The composition of this picture is great, it's one of my faves!
We used a second color to accent the insets in the tall fireplace wall, the color was called, uhhh, West Warwick. It's kind of a soft caramel peach, a bit like a brown version of a candy Circus Peanut, and similar but less orange than our kitchen, so there's nice continuity when looking from the kitchen to the family room.