I love how the painting came out. Although I'm still catching up on all the other things I didn't get to this weekend because I was painting. Mainly laundry.

The trim color is called "Aged Fossil" and the wall color is "Frosted Glass". It's a real light grey with a tiny tint of aqua - which I didn't notice on the paint chip, but on the walls that's how it looks). Now I think I want to carry this color into my kitchen and dining room (one big room, really). I'm thinking of doing the same color on the walls and trim, and then doing an accent wall in a teal/peacock blueish green. That same wall is now orange.

I got the fever....

Painting fever, that is.
I love how the dining chairs came out....I chose a great color, and since the paint is semi-gloss, I've decided to do my downstairs bathroom, and hallway trim that color. But, of course it doesn't match the paint colors in there, so I have to repaint the walls too.
The trim is the greige color, so I'm painting the walls a very light silvery grey. (by the way, how do you spell grey? G R E Y or G R A Y? I've always liked grey)
So, I'll be spending my three day weekend painting. I woke up early again this morning to get started.

I have book group tonight, and the chosen book is Devil in the White City. Not liking it. In fact, I'm only about half way through. I should spend the day finishing it, but I'd rather paint. Too many architectural details for me. I like the chapters about the serial killer, but the World's Fair chapters put me right to sleep! Any of you read it?

early morning painting

I've been wanting to paint my dining room furniture for a while now. It's black. Table, six chairs and a hutch. The floors in my dining room are cherry hardwood. It makes it look too dark in there. So, since a new set isn't in the budget....even though I have a thing for buying tables...I'm going to paint it. I went to the hardware store last night and bought primer and paint. A nice greige color (my new favorite). For now I'm just going to paint the chairs and the back of the shelves in the hutch. I might do the table too....but I'll see how it looks with the chairs lighter first. I'm so excited to do this, that I woke up at 5:45 this morning. I'm crazy.

Also, there were these upholstered, tufted dining chairs I loved at Pier One. I wanted to buy two...one for each end of the table, but they were $200 each. Not in the budget. I stopped in there last night, just to look at them again. I thought I'd do an online search to see if I could find something similar for a lot less money. Well, the display chair didn't have a tag on it, so I asked the salesclerk how much it was. She looked it up and it's on clearance for $58.00. Holy shit! The only problem is, they only have one. They checked all the other semi-local stores and no one else had one. So, I bought the one, and I'll use it as an arm chair in my kitchen, until I find something else for the other end of the table. It's a print chair, so I can find something else to make a pair, even if it's not exactly the same....it will give my dining room an eclectic look, right?

Here's what the chair looks like:

Braden diving

Pre dive: Mid dive:

Snow Day!!

Finally, I get a snow day. The kids have had six so far, but I don't get off in the office...until today that is!!
I don't have much to report here. I have the winter feeling I always get....must make changes in the house. I have the itch to paint, rearrange, organize and dejunk. It's always dangerous when I get that way. Just ask Keith! It's a good thing I don't have any paint here today, or who knows what I'd do!?