I told Jamey when we bought this house that the first big thing to go would be the maroon and beige walls, and that it wouldn't be a "get around to it eventually" kind of project. NO. It HAS to go ASAP. Everything in this house is some shade of brown or boring beige (the guest bath is a horrid baby-poo brown and that is the next thing on my list). But I cannot live with the giant maroon wall in my living room, painted back in the early 2000s when accent walls were THE THING to do. (Not that I'm against accent walls. They are great when they are done right, but when you insert a random dark color in an otherwise spacious room, it seems to make it feel smaller, because all you notice is a giant dark wall. I'm pretty sure they accented the wrong wall here.) Here is a picture of the living room before we moved in:
It totally clashes with the marble fireplace and tends to look pink in some lighting. Doesn't set it off at all. Not really our style at all. So we painted some color swatches on the wall and finally decided on Behr's Light French Grey, which should hopefully bring out some of the gray-blue in the marble and make the fireplace the focal point, not the entire wall.
But first we had to prime the dang thing. 15 foot ceilings are a first for me, I must admit, and so is maroon paint. No big deal. I went to Home Depot and bought a can of Kilz primer and a really long pole for my paint roller. Plus I have a husband who is over 6 feet tall. That should do it right?
I spent my entire day prepping the walls, filling holes and sanding, so that we could tackle priming tonight when Jamey got home. We tag-teamed it, with him doing the upper half and me doing the lower half.
Here we are after cutting the edges (you can see the sample swatches on the wall. The middle swatch will be the new color):
And here it is after rolling on a coat of primer:
Only took around two hours to do and it's so much brighter already. Can't wait to get it all painted!!
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