My New Residence: Project Indecision

Some of these pictures are quite old already, but I haven't gotten around to posting them yet. As documented here, my house wasn't painted exactly as I would have desired when I moved in (think blue). The first order of business after simply putting all my junk away, was to change all the walls and create a home that didn't constantly make me feel like I was living in a high school band uniform. I wasn't sure how bad this process would be, but it turned out to be pretty okay, probably because I had some great help. My parents were instrumental in transforming it and deserve much of the credit for helping me paint. As evidenced by the pictures below, I found it incredibly difficult to pick paint colors. I had no idea there were that many shades of beige, or that I could care so much about how they differed (or weren't different, if you asked my dad).

20 shades of beige to find the right one...

Of course, once I picked a color for the living room, I still had to pick one for the bathroom. These choices were all over the place. I really wanted a nice gray, but they all looked too concrete/prison-ish, so I ended up with a random and unplanned green instead. It's not my favorite, but it's way better than the old color and does the job for now.

I think I had this pattern on a shirt in the 80's

Hard as it was for me to pick colors, my parents had the really difficult job actually helping put it on the wall.

Good-bye, blue!

I also took advantage of having a master electrician for the weekend, and changed out the amazingly bad pendant that cast a weird yellow glow on everything. Although this was consistent with the blue/gold theme the previous owner had going on, it was not working for me.

Goodbye, yellow glow!

And what is any home improvement without something from Ikea?

Assembling the blürg table.

The bedroom wasn't tackled in the same weekend as the rest of the house, but was a summer project. Not surprisingly, I was no more efficient at picking colors here than for the other rooms. Once again, this room could have gone in multiple directions, from poop brown to cotton candy pink (I told my friend she could pick any color and I would give it serious consideration on my wall. Serious consideration for cotton candy pink did not last long). One of these colors was chosen, so keep that in mind when making fun of the colors in the comments...

After all this painting, I am very tickled with how it looks now. "After" pictures to come.