That title refers to the color selection of le dining room. Which is french for the dining room.
OK! We chose a blue to paint le dining room, and we went pretty bright. To decorate, we added a bunch of orange and red things to play off of the blue (you know, complementary colors and all). I wanted to like it. I really did.
But it was just so bright, and hey if you know me you know that I love bright colorful things. It was bright in a way that made me squint my eyes. For a while I just tried to get myself to like it.
The more I looked at it, the more I disliked it. What's worse is the fact that I see so much of le dining room from the living room. It was there to annoy me constantly. So that is when I started searching for an alternate color. Then I discovered a navy blue. I was super scared about painting a room so incredibly dark, but that is when I reminded myself that paint is not permanent and I could always change it if it bothered me.
I decided the next snow day we had I would buy the paint and go for it. Well, two days later we had a snow day and I went crazy painting!
As I started, I had a hard time controlling my face.
This is when I am thinking "ahhhh what have I done!?!?"
Here is the first coat. Still a bit spotty. You can see some of the lighter blue peeking out.
BAM! Second coat. In this photo, it is a lot blue-er. The following pictures are more accurate.
After everything dried, I decorated!
I finally found a place where this shelf worked. Sigh. I lorve it there.
I also lorve (no- lorve is not a typo) this milkglass. While I was waiting for the paint to dry I thought of a way to hang these guys on the wall(more on that later). OH! And I found a spot for mister globe. I got him at a rummage sale.
Chair with mini mirror.
Giant wall mirror plus baby shelves.
I don't know how much the Phoebster likes it. I think she is more concerned with the location of her kibble.
Ta-da!
Before's and after's.
Boom! I must say, I love the change.
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