New Living Room!

It’s been a while, and I know Sara has been waiting patiently for a new blog post.  So here it is.

A little bit ago (October or so) I decided to paint my living room.  I haven’t done any major projects inside since I moved in, and thought it was about time to pretend that I’ve lived here for over a year.  I had decided on a color scheme, and I would go to Home Depot and get about 40 paint sample paper things and then leave them in a pile on the kitchen counter to look at later when I wasn’t busy watching Millionaire Matchmaker.  I was always so busy watching the millionaires that I never quite got around to deciding exactly which hues I wanted to slather on my walls.

Sometime in early October, I decided that I needed to just go to Home Depot and pick out some paint colors.  So I did.  And of course, I decided based partially on actual paint color and partially on the name of the color.

This is where I tell the story about how I got Mimi to call the MMO wall paint color Golden Shower for 6 months before she found out what a Golden Shower actually is.  And if you don’t know what it is, I’m not going to be the one to tell you.  The paint color is actually called Golden Mushroom, but she has an aversion to mushrooms.

Back to my living room.  The wall facing the window would be Embellished Blue.  Not very clever, but I’ll let it slide.  The other three walls would be <drum roll> Peanut Butter!  Unfortunately, they did not offer the scented paint in this color.  That would have been awesome, but might have clashed with some of my Scentsy scents.

Here are some pictures of the process, which, of course, lasted about a month and a half.

Before:

If you look closely in the lower left-hand corner, you can see my little bucket of nail hole filler.  I did such a professional job that I used a cut up cereal box as a spackle knife to make sure my walls looked smooth.  Go ahead.  Be impressed.

During:

You’ll have to wait for an after.  I’m very busy watching 30 Rock on Netflix right now.  I’ll get up and take a picture tomorrow maybe.  I think you can all use your imaginations right now and envision about how it turned out.  It’s like a peanut butter and light blueberry jelly sandwich.

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