Room Two!

As I believe I've mentioned before on this blog, we once thought we'd have the first floor of the house redecorated by Christmas. Last year.

Ahem.

By Christmas last year we had one room three quarters of the way finished. But as a result (and as always), lessons were learned.

So now after a sizable break, we're at it again. Actually E has been at it again, with only some help from me.

Dining room befores, with a little priming on the third picture:

A before from the day we moved in:

The dining room is just off the living room. (The now-green room is referred to here as the family room – or now, the green room, but just to clarify.) So the colors for these two rooms have to either be the same or work well together. And, ideally, bear some harmonious relationship to the green room.

The original thought was blue for the dining room and violet/gray for the living room. And it could work ... but not for us, I don't think. We found a lot of colors we like, but not so many that we like together. So after four shades of blue, three shades of violet/gray, and three shades of yellow (wildcard!), everything has changed, and could change again. We think one of the blues will work for the living room. And now we're thinking a medium gray for the dining room. The chair rail and the space below it will be the same white we used in the other room, "Subway Tile."

E at work priming:

Some blues:

So stay tuned – heaven knows what it will actually look like when we're done.