Painting Adventures

Just a cool photo.

Our lounge room has been looking a little lifeless for a while now. It goes hand in hand with the yellow-tinted depressing wall paint that all apartment complexes seem to think is a pleasurable color, marks that we have put on the wall from putting up pictures, clocks and even bikes. Jenee and I decided that the best plan of action was to paint the walls a cleaner shade of white and paint an accent wall with some kind of weaved texture.

Well, lets just say that the weaved texture wasn't working so we opted for a texture effect done with plastic bags. Pleased with our efforts we stepped back to discover that the wall hadn't been properly sealed where one should do the "cutting in" and the paint was adsorbing by different amounts into the wall. This resulted in a rather special border due to different paint thickness on the wall, as well as random markings and general ugliness. We thought we would solve this by cutting in with the white paint we had, then re-painting and re-texturing the edges. You can see our efforts below...

Wrong:Ugly wall color that induces feelings of nausea.

Lets just say 5 minutes after we had finished there was a unanimous vote that the wall looked like it belonged to a very low quality 70's hotel and it had to go. However we had friends coming over so we would have to bear the ugliness for at least one night.

Right: Autumn Breeze walls and nice curtains induce feelings of happiness.

The pain the wall caused to my eyes was so great that before church I got up early to re-paint it in a nice, more tasteful "Autumn Breeze" to match the rest of the room. Instead of paint we have decided that our color is going to come from some nice colorful curtains and potentially some matching new pillows on a possibly new sleeper / couch.