one project down

and about a gazillion left to go. that's home-ownership for you. we are not complaining, but are so thankful for the house we can call our shelter for now. remember our quandry? we finally decided to paint the living room thunderstorm which ended up being a neutral grayish, greenish color that we are very pleased with. we have A LOT of colors in our house (red, green, yellow, orange, blue) so a neutral works in there.
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i went to lowes 4 times in one weekend as we kept running out of primer and paint. my very generous husband sacrificed 12ish hours of his precious time to carefully paint our 12ft walls. BIG PROJECT. we were going to paint the wall around the window sweet annie green, but it seemed too armyish when we got down to it. nicole helped us decide to do it dutch blue instead as we have that elsewhere in our house. i think it turned out more restful than the green would have.

marit cheered us on with comments like:"you paint that wall!" "Be careful!" "don't make a mess!" and you see that blanket on the back of the couch. it is the one thing that ties all our rainbow colors together




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