Sea of Blue

My new favorite color combination is teal and dark brown, and ever since Evan vetoed an orange living room (what was he thinking??), I'd had this particular color combination in the back of my mind for our living room decor. So, after some convincing, Evan agreed to the following:

1) a very light teal ceiling (in a color called "Baby Bonnet")
2) a light teal on most of the walls ("Tahoe Blue"), and
3) a true and vibrant teal on certain accent walls ("Java Sea")

And after some grousing on Evan's part about blue being so depressing ("it rains a lot here"), and my response that he can go stand in the now yellow kitchen if he's feeling down, we got to work.

Painting the entirety of the hall, living room and dining room was a multi-day task -- we had to wait for each coat of paint to dry, not to mention, for each color to completely dry.

We started with the hall, which had gone from salmon to white, thanks to our primer.



At first, our ceiling and wall colors looked very similar, as the following picture may lead you to believe. But they ended up being noticeably different.



You can see the contrast better in the living room:



And many days later, finally, we got to the accent walls. We chose to paint the two small walls in the dining room the true teal, along with the wall perpendicular to the front door. It really pops, next to the two much lighter blues!


Almost done.


Evan the contortionist, painting the last little bit of the last wall. He had to squeeze behind the refrigerator to do so, since it was still in our living room, waiting for the kitchen renovations to get finished.


Accent walls in the dining room, drying.


Accent walls next to a "regular" wall.

You may notice a stripe at the tops of the walls -- this was intentional. Thanks to the wood paneling originally hanging on the long wall in the living room, we decided to put up crown moulding along the tops of the walls to make things easier on us. As a result, we didn't have to be super careful in a lot of the corners where two different blues met. We just left them mostly unpainted, figuring the crown moulding would make everything look pretty.


Shot of the dining room through the kitchen.


Evan, afterwards. I think he's frowning because he had to do so much painting by himself, since I couldn't balance on my sprained ankle for long enough to paint the larger living room walls.

And, in case you're keeping track... we're finished painting! Yaaaaaay!!!!

(Ok, so the furnace room isn't painted. But we're using it as storage for the time being, so it doesn't need to be painted yet, right?)