Since we moved into this 1970s house, I have been battling the neverending brown and darkness. You may recall my first attempts adding color with curtains,
here. I also completed a little painting project which I never got around to blogging about--painting the long-dark-road-stripe-yellow-hallway-white.
Here is the before pic. I should've turned on the light in that hallway so the yellow could be better seen, but essentially the previous owners painted that hallway to try and match the wood in the kitchen and living room. Unfortunately, they did a pretty good job of that and the hallway just continues the monochromatic feel of the entire living room and kitchen, given that the walls, floors, blinds, and kitchen cabinets are nearly the same color! To break up that feel, I just gave the hallway a new coat of off-white, kind of tan paint. I'm still not quite sure I like the color completely, but I do like it a whole lot more than the yellow.
I adore the differentiation between the wood and the painted wall afterward, and I never, ever thought that I would find a white wall a relief, as usually I can't wait to apply some color to white walls! One of the next de-browning and de-1970ing projects I'm wanting to complete is to make the hallway doors appear to be panelled and painted white. Once those doors are white I may decide that the hallway needs a nice blue or green! I want to get these things done before I get too pregnant to climb up ladders, bend and such.
Here are a couple more pictures of the living room to remind you exactly what I am wrestling with. Ignore the ghost orb and evil cat. You can see several future projects in this first pic: painting that closet door next to the ghost orb white, and possibly painting the front door a fun color. Green maybe? We'll see what I can convince the hubs to do, as he is leery about painted front doors.
My project for today will hopefully involve getting some white faux wood blinds for the front living room window, the side window, and the kitchen window. Let's have some more white to break up that brown! A plus to this project is that these "semi-private" (what's the use of that?!?!) brown bamboo blinds are going to be replaced by real PRIVATE blinds. Once the new blinds are up I will make a curtain to top the side window there.
You can see yet another future project in this second pic: replace that cheapo folding tray that we use as a side table.
As for my outdoor projects that I mentioned before....it's still too hot for them in my opinion!
