We Got It Right The Second Time Around

Andy and I spent our weekend repainting the living room and hallway of our house. For those of you that may not know, but we painted our house before we moved in and realized the colors were hideous. They were a caramel color in the living room and down the hallway with one of the living room walls being a dark brown with a tint of green. This was awful and way too dark for such a small house. We figured that we went crazy with the colors because we lived in apartments for way too long where all the walls are stark white and completely boring. We didn’t know what we wanted to repaint it, but it had to be repainted. We have acquired paint samples for the past six months and they have piled up. We finally agreed that we would just pick the colors and go with it this weekend. We chose to go with Parchment Paper and Gobi Desert. Parchment Paper would be for two of the walls in the living room and down the hallway while Gobi Desert would be for two of the living room walls. The names of the colors probably don’t mean much so Parchment Paper is light white with a hint of brown in it and Gobi Desert is a khaki color. Prior to starting Andy and I had a discussion on how much labor this would be and that neither of us were thrilled to do it, so I suggested hiring someone to paint for us. I mean, Andy’s mom was here to help the first time around and this time we don’t have anyone to help us. Andy thought that was a crazy idea for such a small house. Hey, at least I tried to get out of it. We went full speed ahead on Friday night with the primer and then on Saturday morning we started painting and finally finished with the second coat on Sunday morning. I do have to admit that Andy did majority of the work, but I did my fair share of the priming and I did help with the first coat; however, I was a little MIA during the second coat. I was just kind of over it. Andy did such a great job with painting and now our living room and hallway are so much brighter and look so much bigger. We definitely picked the right colors the second time around.