Now the redesign gets fun

The painters are here, they are amazing, the prep work begins.

Yikes! this wasn’t the color we talked about. Well, George explained to me that an unpainted surface needs a primer, rather than white, he went with a deep blue.

The top has one coat of the final color, I am breathing easier.

Much easier! wow is that gorgeous! it makes the tile around the fireplace pop, it shines! Once the wallpaper is in, it will make the blue of the paper look amazing. The one thing I do have to do is replace those 4 knobs. Will work on that.

Breakfast room painted in the champagne color, it has a lot of pink in it. Yet, it reads as a nice southing neutral to me. Tying the two rooms together, this cabinet was also painted blue. You really can’t see it, I could see when the doors were put up against the blue wall, there is a slight difference. George didn’t do the dark primer on these doors, they are slightly brighter. I have a very sharp eye for color.

This is what you actually see, it really ties it all together and I can’t tell you how much I love this.

This is the before of the breakfast room.

Here is after, yes, I need to rehang pictures, but I’m cogitating on that right now.

Remember the kitchen? I hated this awful dirty yellow. Another friend told me she had done something similar, I bet her didn’t look this dirty. I thought, we have painters here, we’ll just add in the kitchen. Of course this turned out to be the biggest part of the paint job, we had a lot of things to move, it took the whole week to put up a new ‘skin’, sand that skin and then paint.

First of all, this was the texture beforehand, this is inside a cabinet with glass doors. So, I just asked them to paint the new color, not sand, I HATE this kind of wall finish, it is cheap, it is ugly it is awful. Now inside the cabinet, no one will see it, but this was the whole kitchen, and on top of that the awful yellow.

Here is a smooth wall, 1000 times better!

I need to put some of the decorations back, but I do want to wait. I feel like I had too much stuff. Right now I am just enjoying a much nicer, cleaner kitchen.

Leah

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