When we moved into this house 7 and a half years ago I promptly painted it. I had lived in enough “egg shell white” apartments and I didn’t want to live in an “egg shell white” house. I have always love the color green in all its forms so it was natural that I would pick green for the familyroom/kitchen area.
I loved the color. It was so different from the typical light tan and white everybody else had, and like I said before, I love the color green.
Over the years the paint became chipped in places and the base boards banged up. This of coarse naturally happens when you have 5 kids running around. For the last couple of years I have been wanting to paint. I painted the house myself the first time around and it was a huge job, our ceiling vaults and the highest of the vaults happens to be over the stairs, making for a very awkward and dangerous wall to paint.
Lucky for me I have a most wonderful and talented brother-in-law who does custom painting for a living, and this year we finally had the money to pay Mr. wonderful-brother-in-law to paint the house for us. As he was cutting in (or as us non-painting people say “doing the edges”) I remembered to grab the camera and snap pictures before my wonderful green walls disappeared.
These are all kitchen shots, the family room was already covered with dark gray primer by the time I thought to get the camera out.
Tomorrow…..”The Middle.”
How fun! I love to paint! My last house had vaulted ceilings too. What a pain!
How I miss owning my own home!!!
I love painting my walls. My living room in NC was that same red color and I loved it. As soon as we get our own house again, I am adding color to the walls. I liked the old green color, too. Although I am a blue person myself (but I prefer blue painted in bedrooms not main living spaces).
That green is a very pretty color, very calming. Love your cute bird houses by the way! 🙂
I used to have a very similar color in my Seattle home. It was called Iceland by Rodda paint. I trimmed it with something called Sour Cream also by Rodda, which I had them mix 1/2 formula. My carpet was white. Oh, I loved this look. But we out-grew the house and had to move. I’ve never had lovely green walls since.