Newly Painted Rooms!

Here is Briana's new room! I think it turned out amazing! If you click here, you will see the drastic difference between her room before and now. It really looks like a big girl room. I have to say, I was really nervous about all the bold colors at first. But, I think it turned out really well. Briana said she wanted to feel like she was in the ocean, and I think this is a great blue to do so.

About a month and a half ago, we had our exterminator Tim, who also a contractor on the side, fix a bunch of cracks that had occurred around the house from the house settling and also had him add some crown molding to our family room, guest bedroom, guest bath and master bath. Our master bath has a huge vaulted ceiling. The builder of our house decided not to put any sort of molding on the vaulted ceiling and with time and moisture, the tape and painted started to crack and peel. It was looking awful. Tim did an amazing job putting up all the molding.

He isn't a painter though.

And the unfinished molding sat there for about a month.

My friend Lisa had a bunch of work done in her house lately and highly recommended the contractor she had been using. So, we had him come out last Tuesday for a quote for painting for the inside and outside of the house. What I didn't expect was for him to say that he was available to start the next day. Ack!!!! But we went ahead and agreed to start the painting the next day.

(Unfortunately, Lisa still had a couple more small projects she needed done and I ended up stealing him away from her for a couple of days. Now I owe her a lunch. With dessert. Heh.)

We only had paint ready for the crack touch ups and the molding. We had no colored paint for the two rooms that we wanted to have painted. I wanted Briana to pick out a comforter before we chose a paint color. Over the next two evenings, we had a comforter (chosen by Briana) and eight gallons of paint (3 for Bri's room and 5 for mine and Doug's) purchased. And I had to clear a bunch out of stuff out of the rooms in order for them to start painting. It was a bit overwhelming.

I had known for a very long time what color I wanted for my bedroom. And I already had the comforter that I wanted to keep and matched the color to that. That was pretty simple.

But for Briana - I had nothing. When Bri picked the comforter, it only had to two shams in with it. I had no curtains, no bed skirt, no lamp. I had to start picking stuff off Amazon and prayed it would work. I ran to Target and managed to find the lamp and rug - getting the small cool blue chair was a bonus. 

Again, I was a bit worried about it being too bright. But it really came together. I absolutely love it and so does Briana...

And she said she wanted to feel like she was in the ocean...

Huge night time smiles!!!!

And here is the master finished product...

It feels very serene and relaxing now. It is exactly how I imagined it. It only took us 8 years to get the master bed and bath painted. That's not bad, right?

This is the beige color it was before...

I'm so happy we did it. And I am so happy it is over! It was a looooong few days of having it done.

And in a few weeks we will freshen up the paint outside and we plan to do some major landscaping in our backyard. The backyard has huge runoff gullies from the way our house is sloped. When it rains, half our yard gets washed away. Makes me want to cry sometimes! But we will get it all done. Eventually!