Banishing Builder's Beige 2: Revenge of the Paint Cans

As you saw in the previous post we have been painting our little cans off lately.  The most ambitious project, I'm sure, was the upstairs hallway.  The walls just...kept...going.  It felt like I would always be cutting in around the trim and baseboards until I grew old and died, paintbrush in hand, falling down carefully so I didn't splatter the carpet.  Fortunately, and obviously, death did not overtake me and we made the transformation from scuffed up beige to a warm neutral very close to the kitchen color.

You saw this picture in the previous post, but now it has a little context.  In person it's a warm, olive-y brown.  Jeremy actually picked the color, and it just happened to be an incredibly close match to the kitchen (love that guy!).  I think it looks great with the black of the gallery frames, as well as with the blues and grays of the rooms connected to it.

This is a shot from the guest room doorway looking back toward the gallery wall.  This was the largest chunk of wall, and I think it shows that the color stands up by itself, without too many things layered on top of it.  I plan to make it a gallery of the UF championship newspapers we have, but framing them is a project to handle over time (have you ever custom framed something?  Yowch!!!  Even with a 60% off coupon and the cheapest options, this one was a bit pricey!  End of aside.)  

Anyway, with a big project comes a big sense of accomplishment when it's done.  I definitely have been rocking a holy-smokes-we-did-it buzz since we finished this in early November, in preparation for Thanksgiving.  It's actually been long enough that we are playing with the idea of adding another coat, but all in good time!