So the home remodeling is getting to the end

unless i decide to paint the other 6.5 rooms(including the laundry room...thinking a great $5 can of apple green....and the hall downstairs...)


I am sticking to neutral colors and taking down levolors because we will probably sell the house in the next five years and really DONT want to have to paint over my fav colors LIKE CHARTREUSE...I am painting lighter colors to make the rooms look as big as possible and NOT have cream colored walls...or PINK walls...also trying to give the house a beachy look since its a hilton head style house built in the late 80s-89 I think...ICKY GREY AND WHITE STRIPED HALL WALLPAPER

which still has the icky wallpaper that the den had...off white and grey stripes...WHY would anyone put up wall paper that color??? I mean WHY??? I do know the previous owner was color blind and his wife told him that she decorated the house in browns and beiges...when she was really into all kinds of PINKS...mauve wallpaper, peptobismal pink bathroom and stairs to the garage(Thank goodness they painted over that) and wait till you see the color of the master bedroom....and we still have to deal with the miles of odd colored pink tiles in the kitchen...i hear from my good friend Connie that they are really easy to demolish:> and quick too!:>

BARELY BLUE WALL PAINT

this is a picture of the fireplace and the new bookshelves now that the walls are painted...I am thinking about getting a mirror...a round one for over the fireplace...The blue paint is a very soft sky blue...its from the white section...it really brings out the best in the new bookcases...makes the white pop..and most amazingly is how huge both of the rooms look now that the walls are light blue instead of the old ICK wallpaper...

THE OLD MAUVE WALLPAPER

Same shot with THE Barely Blue Walls(notice lovely yuck pink tiles! which limited What you could paint the kitchen!) NOW If anyone can think of WHAT can be done to these cabinets to get rid of the off white laminate on them...let me know...they are right up there with the pink tile and levolors on my list...but anything i can think of is HIDEOUSLY expensive...as it involves all new doors and door fronts...thats all hand routed oak trim on the cabinets...part of the doors...

The guest room...still has it custom levolor blinds(..they are either going or being covered up with curtain panels and a valance.....)and since it has pink carpet ...not too many colors you could paint this room...so i painted it a barely pink...it really brightened the room up...since the older color was a dingy peachy pink...this one is almost an orchid color...sooner or later i am going to paint the furniture all white i think..well at least its on my to do list one day!
This is the first pair of curtains i made for the master bedroom(and yes there were levolor vertical blinds in this room too!)...and yes arent the walls a beautiful umm is it plum pink? Funny it was the only hideous color she painted in the house that I could live with...it looks great with our cherry furniture-think rice bed and tall boy and chest of drawers...pictures of it when i get done! Still have to make one more set of curtains and the duvet cover...and pillow shams...
The small lr wall..this is really a very pretty sagey green...NOT grey lokke it looks in this picture...
Taupe stair well wall...I am going to repaint this one i think be cause it looks like cafe au lait AKA MUD brown:> THe lr drapes...well they are not made yet...BUT soon...sometime in the next week...and the levolors are COMING DOWN...then i will call habitat for the humanities to pic them up...cant give them away I have tried!!!

...and more paint in the lr dr which is a kind of L shape...but what about those two story walls in the LR...scary hanging out on that ladder...although my friend Connie says you get used to it...and I have done it before....soooo i may be a ladder monkey as she calls it yet:>