House of Blues

I've been convinced not to paint my entire house the same shade of blue, but that didn't stop me from painting two rooms different shades of blue!

It's hard to tell here, but this color is actually Valspar "Novella Blue"

In several of the pictures, it came out looking very aqua-like

The view from the primed dining room..

See what I mean about aqua??  The dining room color is pretty accurate, though.  It's Valspar Blue Mist:

And I don't know if you've noticed yet.. but that couch should look very, very familiar.

Yup, it's THAT couch.  I bought it.  And not even off of Craigslist!  The table is from Craigslist though, formerly of Ikea.

scraping is done!

This was before:

If you don't understand why I went through the trouble to remove the paint from the walls and not just the visible wallpaper, consider that in some places, the walls looked like this:

And, given a little tug, like this:

We found what looks like at least 4 different wallpapers, and decades of paint on top.  I decided it was all coming down for a fresh start.

And now, I am down to bare plaster.  You can see samples for paint colors I'm thinking of over the fireplace.  After I refinish the floors, I will prime and paint.