Step 2: painting, DONE!
So I have sort of been on a blogging hiatus (minus my 31 days of frugal travel tips which have been going strong) for the last week or so since we have been busy with both holidays and trying to finish painting before starting back to work this week. Plus Cooper was neutered and has been needing a lot of babying. He sits on my lap with his cone of shame and I can´t reach the keyboard to type. Anyway, the latest apartment update is that we have FINALLY finished painting the walls. YES! It only took us a week. Again, things just take longer than we had planned but we are going with the flow.
The walls before were a sort of boring, blah, comes with the house beige with a yellowish tint. I knew from the beginning I wanted to change them before we moved any furniture in. I decided for the livingroom and our bedroom to do the same color scheme: grays and blues. Then the rest of the apartment including the entry, hallway and other two bedrooms were painted a tan, light brown. The ceilings are all white and the doors as of now are a dark brown. Those might change someday but for now having had painted 3 coats on our entire apartment I am finished for a while.
Here is the livingroom before:
Now the majority of the walls have a light blueish gray while there are 2 smaller walls with a darker accent. The lighter color hasn't shown up in the photos very well but you get the idea.
The master bedroom is the same idea.
Here are the bedrooms´ before and after.
The rest of the apartment was finished in a light brown. Here is one of the smaller bedrooms before:
And after:
I am really happy with the colors we picked. Of course we could always change them someday but painting can be such work (even if you have your in-laws helping). We spent the last week of our winter break getting it done. Now we just have to start with the furniture and wait for our kitchen cabinets to be manufactured. We pick out the colors, drawer pulls and final design tomorrow! Yay!
The walls before were a sort of boring, blah, comes with the house beige with a yellowish tint. I knew from the beginning I wanted to change them before we moved any furniture in. I decided for the livingroom and our bedroom to do the same color scheme: grays and blues. Then the rest of the apartment including the entry, hallway and other two bedrooms were painted a tan, light brown. The ceilings are all white and the doors as of now are a dark brown. Those might change someday but for now having had painted 3 coats on our entire apartment I am finished for a while.
Here is the livingroom before:
Now the majority of the walls have a light blueish gray while there are 2 smaller walls with a darker accent. The lighter color hasn't shown up in the photos very well but you get the idea.
The master bedroom is the same idea.
Here are the bedrooms´ before and after.
The rest of the apartment was finished in a light brown. Here is one of the smaller bedrooms before:
And after:
I am really happy with the colors we picked. Of course we could always change them someday but painting can be such work (even if you have your in-laws helping). We spent the last week of our winter break getting it done. Now we just have to start with the furniture and wait for our kitchen cabinets to be manufactured. We pick out the colors, drawer pulls and final design tomorrow! Yay!
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