More pictures of painting

Above are pictures from Ben's room, the entry way by the garage, our bedroom (and for some reason one of the pictures looks like we have a deep dark green on one wall, when it really is a red) and of the bathroom.

A lot of work painting!

After we put up the paint samples and decided to go with those choices, we were anxious to get started. I ran to town that very evening (I believe it was Wednesday evening) and got the paint (while also anxious to find a different paint sample for our dining room accent wall.)

At this time I am remembering that I must not forget to mention our dry wall man, Mr. Klump, who did an EXCELLENT job of mudding, taping, texturizing (and extra work making the kitchen and Ben's room flat for the borders) and painting our ceilings! Thanks so much!

Kerri, PJ and Phil were able to start painting the next day, on Thursday! They did a wonderful job and got a really good start on the bathroom and our bedroom. The colors looked great! I was at school most of the day, but took a little time off to help out some myself. I was able to paint on the first coat of blue in Ben's room.

On Friday, Kerri, Phil and PJ worked more on finishing the bedroom, bathroom and Ben's room with second coats of paint. It really was coming together nicely.

The pictures above are of the living room, kitchen and dining room. The sepia tan and the palace white blended well together, but took PJ and I all day on Saturday to put up just one coat in the entry way by the garage, the laundry room (which is next to Ben's room), the pantry, the kitchen, the dining room, the hallway by our bedroom and bathroom and the living room. PJ plans on putting up a second coat on all those walls in the next few days.

Time to choose the paint colors!

After looking at colors with my friend, Jenell; my mother-in-law, Kerri; PJ; and Paula and Brad (owners of the Color Center in Ashland) we finally got paint samples and anxiously tried them out on the walls. We had good luck as all of the colors looked right, except one, the accent wall in the dining room. After going through a couple more samples on that wall, we have finally decided on that color also. Above are pictures of the color samples. The bright blue room is Benjamin's room. We took a blue and deep green out of the dinosaur border that will be going around the room. We have decided to add some whispy clouds afterwards to add dimension to the large blue section of the wall. The walls are 8 1/2 feet tall...so that's a lot of blue, it will be nice to break it up a little.

The accent wall in the dining room will be a pomegranate, a deep dark red, which will not only put a break in the very large open sepia tan of the living room and dining room, but accentuate the border that will be visible from the kitchen area. The kitchen is a lighter tone than the sepia tan, a palace white, which goes well with the border that has navy blue, off white and burgundy colors. The pantry and the laundry room will also be palace white. The entry way from the garage is a sepia tan, which continues into the living room and dining room and the small section of hallway to our bathroom and bedroom.

Our bedroom is a bit brighter, using tuscan red and vellum (a yellow goldish tone). We have a few photo frames that are black from our wedding and a very nice black and white photo with black frame of Benjamin that will accent this room nicely.

Our bathroom colors came out of our choice of shower curtain. A very nice mellow light tan tone and a grey/blue tone to accent. The colors match perfectly to the curtain!

Overall the colors have a very earthy, warm feel, which is what we want are home to feel like. Warmth and welcome!