living room walls makeover...

And finally, the living room.  I'm telling ya'll, my father-in-law WORKED while he was down visiting!  Last up was the living room which he painted Saturday while we were away doing ministry with our church.  When we got home, it was such a subtle change, I almost forgot that we were having those walls painted.  But they look really good, especially with the accent wall...

That white trim just pops now with the khaki color on the rest of the walls.  So thankful for my father-in-law's giving spirit and his more-than-adequate work!  Our house looks great!

[paint color(s) in the living room: Fish Market and Homestead Ballroom Gold]

kitchen walls makeover...

Next up on the list of walls to be painted was my kitchen.  I am so unbelievably bummed that I didn't get any "before" photos of the kitchen before my father-in-law started painting.  I was working (from home) that day and he was about 20 min in with paint already on the walls before it dawned on me that I didn't get any photos before he started.

I really thought I'd be able to find some photos of the kitchen that I could use as "before" photos -- just ones that I'd taken casually for other reasons.  But no.  Couldn't find any.  Even more bummed.

But it is what it is.  Or it was what it was.  :)  I think you can still appreciate how beautiful it is NOW:

See how nicely the shade of red goes with my Homestead Ballroom Gold accent wall?  I really love how my kitchen looks now.  And the paint on the walls helped motivate me to do some cleaning out to help "de-clutter" my countertops and get rid of some things that I hadn't used in years.  That's always a good thing!

[paint color in the kitchen: Pedicure at Lunch]

hallway walls makeover...

So the next thing that Jeff's dad painted for us was our hallway.  This is the only hallway in our house and it has the living room, Deacon's room, the guest bathroom and the office/craft room off of it.  It's not very much space as walls go, but painting it really made a big difference, I think...

Such a pretty blue color...I used the shower curtain in the guest bathroom as inspiration for choosing the color for the hallway.  I mean, there's nothing in the hallway to pull colors from, like there is in a bedroom or bathroom, right?  So I was at first perplexed about what color to do in the hallway.

But then I decided that maybe it would be nice to use a shade of blue from the shower curtain since I probably wouldn't use blue in the bathroom, considering the curtain is mostly blue, with some other colors that I would could go with in that room.

Okay, I'm rambling.

I'm totally diggin' the hallway now.  In fact, I keep flipping the light on every time I walk down, just so I can look at it.  :)

[paint color in the hallway: Manitou Blue]

master bedroom walls makeover...

Well, after almost 5 years in this house, we're finally doing something about these drab "bone" colored walls.

Jeff's parents are here this week visiting, getting in some quality time with Deacon and they are loving it.  But in between those special times, we're putting my father-in-law to work.  But he likes to work, so it's all good.  :)

He is a (fantastic) painter so we decided before they got here that we were going to have him paint our bedroom.  We were watching TV one night and a commercial came on for Lowe's or something that showed this beautiful shade of green in some room of a house and I don't know, I just went crazy over it.

Green is my favorite color, anyway, but with the white trim in the room they were using in the commercial, it just looked AWESOME.  So I said something about that and Jeff asked me if we should have his dad knock it out while he was here.

Knock it out, he did!  They flew in Tuesday evening, and when I got home from work Wednesday, it was done.  And oh, was it beautiful!  It is THE perfect shade of green for our bedroom...

I love everything about this color on my walls!  It's so sophisticated and classy -- everytime I walk in there I feel like I'm in a house on Bald Head Island or something.  Jeff really likes it, too.

Duane did a great job, yes?  I am so happy with how it looks.  And bless his heart, he's offered to paint any other rooms in our house, whatever we want/need.  So we're taking him up on his offer, though I feel more badly about that than Jeff does.  I hate for him to come down on vacation and we're putting to him work.  But he has assured me that he doesn't mind, and as I said before, I think he likes to work.  He likes to be busy, I'll say that.  Whether this seems like work to him or not, I don't know.

So in the spirit of keeping Duane busy, most of our walls are getting a makeover this week.  Check back soon to see what I mean!

[paint color in the master bedroom: Dog Park]