The painting has been completed.  My goal with this room was to soften up the colors a bit.  It has a wood floor, brick fireplace, and oak built in cabinets.  It has lots of warm tones, so I wanted a cooler color paint.  It has to be a nature color (i.e. greens or blues, not gray or whites), since some of the sculptures in the cabinets are some very pretty detailed wolf sculptures. 

I painted the room Lime Light by Behr (it’s the second green down).  Starting last Sunday night, I started stripping the wallpaper.  It is a large room that has some nice room separating pillars, where I could stop the paint.  I stripped the wallpaper off of half of this large room (it’s the back half of the house), since that was all I had the energy to do.  Stripping wallpaper is not fun, just in case you have never participated it in before.  If someone asks you, “hey, I need some help stripping wallpaper.  Are you free?”, you need to come up with several excuses that can stick.  Have them handy just in case. 😉  In case you are wondering what we do in stripping wallpaper, we score the wallpaper and then spray on hot water using a water bottle.  Saturate the wall.  Let it sit for 10 minutes or so and then start taking it off.  That has been the best way we used.  Steamers take way too frickin’ long and DIF is spendy for a big room and sometimes doesn’t work that well anyways.

I was going to do a fancy painted border around the top, but I ran out of energy and ambition.  Alas, it is just a plain paint job.  I can live with that.  I chose the paint to match a beautiful jacquard fabric that I purchased to make pillows for the couches.  I got those done on Saturday.  On Thursday, I bought some curtains for the windows and some wall decorations to match the fabric for the pillows.  Yeah, didn’t have the energy to make the curtains either.  I printed up some nature pictures that I had taken this summer and put them in matted frames I bought at Costco (as you know, I *heart* Costco).

Here is the finished product:

Whew, another room completed!  I also just like the fact that I can change out the pictures when I get bored of them and have better ones. 🙂

Ooooh, I almost forgot!  I LOVE these little suckers for hanging stuff up.  Super easy and you don’t even need a hammer: Hercules Hooks (warning: their website initiates a video when you open it, with the loud and boisterous Billy Mays).