The Paint Saga

This is our attempt at using what we have :) The time has come to move Quinton into the room with Jot and this picture tells the story for me. I'll share it with you too... It began when I saw a room with a horizontal stripe painted in it and like it. When we moved, Jot wanted an orange room with red carpet. Tim and I vetoed that choice. I suggested blue with an orange stripe to which Jot liked the idea. So off I went to Lowes and chose some colors. Well the blue I picked was too dark in hindsight and the horizontal orange stripe made the room look small and confining. It was that way for nearly two years though, so at least it wasn't a total waste. Before moving Quinton in, we decided now was the opportunity to repaint. Tim primed and rerolled the ceiling while we discussed colors (this time only giving Jot a bit of choice in the matter). I thought we should paint it the green tea color like the family room since we had three gallons left over and wouldn't be wasting the money on more paint. Tim agreed that we shouldn't spend more money on paint when we had so much, but wasn't keen on the green. He liked blue better. The only blue we had was really bright (the left over of what I chose before) or a nice blue (from our bedroom) but not much of it.... so we set out to begin mixing colors. We lined up all the paint we owned and played for a couple of hours... finally mixing our bedroom blue, with some green tinted ceiling paint and the green tea to get a nice very subtle teal color... what a compromise! His room is now painted (pictures forthcoming)and is only waiting for baseboards, new closet doors and a new door. We are replacing all the luan doors with white panel doors as we do each room. I will say the his room already looks tons bigger and better. Soon Quinton will join him in there and Tim can finally reclaim the office. We have already begun (well Tim has) to repaint the office as well. I had painted it a lovely teal and yellow (2 walls of each) when it was my scrapbook room, but Tim wants it tan. It will be another home mixing job to get his paint right, but we have the paint already and are determined to use what we have! I have two gallons of $5 oops paint from Lowes in a light tan to which we will add the left over Ralph Lauren Burlap from his study closet... all together it should be a nice color (I hope.). It's been a busy few weekends, but as we keep reminding ourselves, progress is being made. I look at pictures of the final walk through on the house and am reminded that as disorganized and unfinished as it looks now, it is a zillion times better than when we first moved in.