Changing the Subject

I just wanted to tell you I am very tired. For the past three days, we've been painting the hallway. Ceiling, two wall colors, and last night we started the trim. One more day of painting and then clean up. Our house was a rental house and we find evidence of this all the time. All of the rooms used to be different colors and whoever painted the walls white (was it the tenants? the landlords who then sold the house to us?) did such a craptastic job that you can usually see the previous color through the white. They did only one coat and that coat might have been primer. So sometimes when I'm exhausted and looking at a can of paint, I remind myself why we're doing this. Which is, this is our house, something we waited for a long time, and we are now painting walls because we can. And, oh yeah, if we don't paint you can see some other color through the white.

The hallways is sort of divided into two sections. The regular long part that leads to all the rooms, and this one sort of small section that connects the entry way to the den. So we painted the long part a mellow yellow. Right away as the color was going on the wall, we agreed we liked it. In the small entry way section, I picked indigo. You've got to wonder what Nate is thinking when he agrees with my harebrained ideas. As the first coat went on, we kept saying, "I don't know." But I hadn't mixed the paint well enough (so it was going on sort of streaky) and now that the second coat is on, it looks better. It's very dark (I knew it would be) but I think I like it. I want to see how it looks when everything is done and the art is back on the walls. Worst case scenario: we paint over the indigo. But right now I think it could work.

I'm wondering how crazy I'm going to continue to be with these colors. My office is a turquoise. Nate's office is very chill. A grey and a blue grey. Then we have the yellow/indigo hall. I've thought about painting our dining room red and kahki. Too much? Maybe. Maybe I should be more sedate with two softer colors divided by crown molding. So much more soothing, right? Then I start thinking about my bright colors ...