When the Cat's Away... 2011

...the mice will paint.  lol.  Yep, Mike was away at Boy Scout camp this week, so I was painting like a mad woman all week.

Before:

It's been almost 25 years since this pink paint went on those walls.  It was high fashion when I decorated it, I'll have you know!  Now, not only is it out of fashion, but really beat up and grungy looking.  You'd think monkeys lived in this room rather than two stodgy old people.  That wallpaper border was NOT dry-strippable.  It came off in little bitty pieces even with the assistance of Piranha wallpaper stripper.  Took two $@&% days to get that stuff off the wall!

After:

This picture in no way does justice to that lovely, new blue.  I spent months looking for just the right blue.  This one looks like the sky on a hot day.  I wasn't looking only for a specific color, but for a specific quality, too.  The paint needed to appear to be lit from within.  Josh told me there's a name for it, but I can't remember the exact phrase.  Sub-surface luminosity or something like that.  Anyway, this paint has that quality.  I love it.  It's cool without being cold.  Restful without being static.

Now I just need to finish decorating by finishing up the quilt that I've been working on for the bed.  I have pictures to put back up, but I'm so in love with all that blue that I may wait a while.