Progress?

The current background of this blog is what our hallway was wallpapered.  Did you notice, I said was.

Yeah baby, that's right - it is G to the O to the N - E!!  

It started out on a Sunday night a couple of weeks ago.  The weather was beautiful, we had spent the day outside trying to get the outdoors in shape for winter.  So, after dinner I'm thinking if I sit down now I'll never get back up.  John ran out for a minute (fountain soda), I took a deep breath, got the steamer out and went to work on some of the walls in the hallway that I could reach.  I figured if these walls were the only thing that got done, it would be that much less to do when we tackled the project as a whole.

BEFORE
The walls that started it all on the right...

BEFORE
I can't describe the level of claustrophobia this invoked... daily

Suffice to say, one thing led to another and next thing we knew we were renting scaffolding and fighting about paint colors :)  

IN PROGRESS
Lovely view from the kitchen table...

IN PROGRESS
The point of no return...

After narrowing the color scheme down, looking at an insane amount of paint samples, and more than one argument, we decided on Benjamin Moore Camouflage.  It is reading sage greenish in the pictures, but it really isn't... it's more grey-brownish-green than sage-green if that makes sense.

AFTER
Not so claustrophobic now are we??

We still have to paint the lower part of the walls in the hallway.  Also, when things settle down a bit around here, we are going to wallpaper - I mean pay someone to wallpaper - the wall above in some lovely grasscloth.  For now we just painted it so we didn't have to look at the wall without paint or paper on it.  Which, I should mention is why we chose the paint color, it goes perfectly well with the grasscloth we're going to order, and once it is papered it should look divine.

We are so not done here.  

Proof (sorry for the bad picture, it's cloudy today):

1. patch holes
2. prime
3. decide on paint color (v. hard)
4. paint

John and I would also like to thank our loyal helpers, without them this project would have taken much, much longer.  Sam and Will  I mean - Rick and Vera!!

Next up:  lighting and a gallery wall - I can't wait!