Painting the living room

Tammy has been busy painting the living room.

Here is an old photo showing the old wall color.

As you can see below our accent wall is red. This wall went well even though Tammy ended up putting four coats of paint on the wall to completely hide the old swirls that peeked out from our mud job.

Here is the red wall and the other wall is the mudded wall.

The regular living room walls were to be a tan color.  Two coats of paint darkened the color slightly to look a little better but we decided the color - while a nice color, and one that looked nice next to the red on our paint sample cards - was too boring on our wall.   The color reminded me of the walls in the IBM buildings I had worked all those years.  My IBM days are behind me and so is that color.  Tammy didn't care for the color either.

The paint was Lowe's Valspar paint.  Lowe's has a "Love My Color" guarantee so Tammy and I went back to Lowe's and talked with their paint specialist and she and Tammy came up with a grey color to go with the red wall.

Photo 1: red and tan walls. (It was much more tan than what shows up in the photo.)
Photo 2: the grey color being painted over the tan color.  Now you can see the tan color as it was.
Photo 3: The red and grey walls.  The trim along the ceiling is left to paint. We didn't take the trim down because we were afraid the trim would splinter and break during removal.

Looking head on the black TV really pops out from the red wall and looks great.


Another living room wall with the paint-over in progress.