As you all know, the beautiful and I painted the great room this past weekend, which means this is the last time you will ever have butterscotch pudding in your face on this blog. Unless of course I make some butterscotch pudding and feature it. To be honest, I have never made butterscotch pudding, so the chances that will happen are super slim.
Here are some before shots to refresh your memory.
As for the new colour? Well, you saw it on Monday’s Weekend Warrior post, but for the sake of conversation, if I had to compare it to food, it’s more like that gruel Neo is given in The Matrix, but that is a terrible thing to compare our new walls to.
To make up for it, I’m going to compare it to an animal. Specifically, the little guy on the left at the top.
See what I did there? I opened with that picture so you were presented with adorableness, talked about something less than appealing, and then made you look back at that adorable picture again to clean your mental palette.
Go ahead, look again.
I don’t mind.
Aside: who wants to smother me in baby otters? Anyone? I would die a very happy man.
What? Oh. Right! We painted!
It actually didn’t take us as long as we expected due to the fact that it didn’t need to go all the way to the ceiling and that there are a lot of open areas on the walls because of doors, windows, a fireplace, cabinets, etc. We did stretch it over two days though because we got started late on Saturday and wanted to let it completely dry to see where we stood.
Then we got back to it a little later on Sunday because at the time, waking up and painting felt akin to waking up and having someone punch you in the face. Especially since we could wake up and relax with a couple mugfulls of coffee instead.
Once we’d finished, we moved pretty quick to get all of the furniture back in place. Like I said on Monday, we’d covered every surface the fluffy one normally slumbered upon and we were just super excited to see how it all came together.
The verdict?
The walls are amazing.
The decor is fantastic.
The furniture is eh.
The floors could be darker.
As a whole though,we’re getting there! It’s really strating to feel like our house and I can’t really complain about the furniture and floors because they just are what they are for now. It’s just that as far as cohesion and our style goes, they could be better and eventually, they will be, and all of you will bear witness to it!
What colour is your living space? Do you like it or wish it were different?
That looks great, it really opens up the room and that looks better already. All of the walls in my flat are white! I rent and that’s what they were when I moved in, my landlord would be fine with me painting them whatever colour I wanted but I prefer them white anyway. My living space is not huge and I need illusion of space that white walls give me!
White can be really great for opening up a space, for sure! We were torn between painting bright colours, white or something close to white, but not quite. We decided on the third, figuring the decor could do all the work, but giving the walls a little attention as well.
Our living room walls are just a boring white, however, my bedroom walls: Thick, bright red on one side and pepto bismol pink on the other, a white stripe going right down the middle and a purple and yellow door…. Are you wondering WTHeck???? Me too. I would love to paint it, but we are in one of those houses we bought at an extreme deal and are in the middle of deciding to tear it down or renovate with add-ons. At this point, it looks like tear down. We jumped on it as we pretty much just got it at land value ($28,000), there is also an extreme house shortage here due to the “Oil Boom” so its either extremely high rent or living in campers…. Its just crazy… I always have a need to explain those God Awful colors
The color on your walls is beautiful. Its absolutely perfect. As for the baby otters, they just melted my heart – sweet touch!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Wow, that sounds like a crazy situation to be in. Also sounds like something that would be great to write about. Sounds like quite the adventure!
Also, would love to see all of those colours together. Sounds like it’s a mess!
where to start…we have about 6 different colors in our house, ranging from a rich red (guest room – with cowprint and plaid!) in our guest room to a soft yellow in our master, a rich espresso brown in our master bath, a bright turquoise in our half bath and a light caffe latte in most of our downstairs.
(can you tell I’m not afraid of color? designer by trade and my soon-to-be husband just goes with it now – i’m a designer)
…up next though, we’re painting the kitchen..you guessed it..gray! love the color so much and i think it looks lovely in your home
LOVE the blog, by the way! i think you two are both amazing, and i feel certain that, if we all were to cross paths, we would get along instantaneously and chat for hours over delicious food and tasty microbrews!
Thanks so much for the love! It makes us so happy every time we hear someone is enjoying our journey.
Your colour scheme you have going on sounds awesome! Would love to see some pictures for a better idea!
Also, I am always game for food and microbrews. It’s hard not to get along with someone who’s up for that!
I would be happy to send y’all some pictures
…we bought our house 2 years ago and one of my favorite/best parts about decorating and revamping (other than making it your own) is sharing concepts and bouncing ideas off others!
..and a big ole AMEN to foodies and beer lovers!
Looks great guys! Question – has your kitchen/front room always been open like in the photos? We have a half wall between our rooms and want to rip it out to open the space. I imagine it would probably look like your place if we did.
Thank you, Stephanie!
To answer your question, it has always been open, yup! We both absolutely suggest taking that half wall out. The open concept is super awesome and makes the space that much brighter.
Hello. I was just wondering what paint color you used?
Thanks!
Hi Lauren! The paint colour used was Whiskers by Porter/Pittsburgh Paints. I guess the name is totally fitting when it comes to that picture of the otters!
In MY first ever home I painted the living room walls an amazing deep, dark, matte grape purple with white trim. It was looooovely. I loooved it. Next house I went with a light mint color (hardly noticeable mint) in the main living area, and deep greens and yellows (think Tuscany) in the kitchen. My current house is the epitome of neutral with a creamy cream/tan on the walls, which makes for lots of FUN with accent colors and pieces. My bathroom is rust orange. Crazy, but I love it!
Question: do you have plans to paint/stain the interior wood door?
First, we absolutely plan to paint the inside of the doors. Now that the walls are all grey/white, it’s a total eyesore. You can look forward to seeing that very soon!
Second, that purple/white combination sounds amazing. Would love to see pictures of all of your current rooms to get a better idea of the colours!