Time to check in once again on the living room saga. Remember where we were?
And just a reminder to where we started...
I started by taking down all of the existing prints (duh!) and quickly realized a little problem. You see when Seth and I painted this room, we were short sighted. We didn't consider that we would ever change anything, so we just painted over the picture hangy things. Which meant when I removed those do-dads, We had an ugly white blob.
Whoops. And to make matters even more complicated, we didn't have any paint left over and we didn't write down the paint name. Home owner fail. So I made a quick trip to Lowes and grabbed every brown paint swatch I could find. Seth and I held them all up against the wall and found the one that look right. I think the name has to do with a seal. Who names this shit? So another trip back to Lowes and I was able to buy an itty bitty of the paint color.
This is totally awesome. And as you have probably guessed, we have this no leftover paint/ don't know the name of the paint problem all over the house, so I plan to eventually get itty-bitties for all the rooms of our house.
Anyways, back to our saga, I dabbed some paint on the white spots and it dried perfect...
See can't tell, unless you're looking for it. And if you are looking for it, please stop.
From here, the rest of the project was easy-breezy. I mean really, hanging a picture isn't rocket science. Without further ado, I give you the final product...
LOVE! The scale is much better and the asymmetrical alignment looks much more grown up. Plus I love how the blocks in my art play off of the squares in the Kandinsky print and the colors are similar to those in the Klimt. I call this a major win.
I still have plenty left to do in this room, such as update the mantel arrangement...
That will also include doing something about that ghastly fireplace surround.
And hang new curtains....
The red just isn't working for me anymore.
And do something to make the bookshelf not look so cheap-o...
I really like what John and Sherry did
here. Now I just have to convince Seth....
And I have to make our upholstered coffee table not look so sad...
No brilliant ideas here yet, but I'm sure I'll figure out something...
Stay tuned as the saga continues....
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