It's been a long week...

My life this week has been immersed in paint. As some of you know, we are going to get new carpet in the whole house sometime this summer. Yikes! So what better time to take on other projects as well?? I've been wanting to paint the walls since we moved in and saw how dingy they looked but neither one of us were very motivated to do it. Well, if we repainted now, there's no need to worry about spills on the current carpet since we're ripping it up. So that's what we did. Jason convinced me that the spare bedroom should get a coat because it had some of the yuckiest walls. I started in there so that I could practice my painting techniques.

Here's a before picture...yellow walls but I had already started to trim in the new color...
...and here's an after. There's probably a lighting difference because the room looks darker in person than in the picture.
So after I finished painting the bedroom, I wasn't all that keen on the color. Like I said, it looks much darker and shinier in person, but I kept going and started painting the upstairs hallway. Got it painted and hated it! When the lights were on the walls looked orange and it was just way too shiny and dark for my liking. Here's the bad part: we bought 5 gallons of paint from Lowe's in this awful color and only used one in the bedroom and half in the hallway. Jason being the supportive husband called Lowe's and asked what our options were since the label on the cans say non-refundable. Someone was definitely on our side because the guy told us we could bring it back and he'd mix a new color. We were shocked, and Jason definitely got the name of this guy. We go into Lowe's the next day and lucky for us, that same guy was working. We returned 3 gallons of non-refundable paint. We were counting our lucky stars. I got a different color that I love so much better.

Here's a before of the hallway (it was just white)...
And here's the after...again, the color is not very representative...
After the hallway, I tackled the upstairs living room. Here's a before...again just white...
And here's an after...same color as the hallway but looks totally different...
This is probably the best representation of the color...
Only one more room to go...the down stairs living room/office. I'm really not looking forward to that. It will have to wait until next week because in a few hours we're off to Olney for Mason's birthday party. Can't wait!