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I’m Seeing Red

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By marydalene

On Saturday, Jared and I made the next step into changing the way our house looks. Originally, I had planned to paint Timothy’s new room (we put Sarah in his old room because she likes Winnie the Pooh and that is how that room is themed) after we had painted the entryway, living room and hall. We had promised Timothy as part of switching rooms with Sarah that we would paint his room to make it less boring.

The first project is taking longer than I would like. We have been interrupted in our attempts to finish removing the wallpaper glue, and this weekend was the first chance we’ve had to work inside in several weeks. I knew we could paint Timothy’s room in a day (with a day for touchups, which was yesterday), and so I opted to have Jared help Timothy have a room that we promised more than six months ago.

This is the color it was when we moved in. Pretty basic and bland. This is how pretty much the whole house was painted (except where there is wallpaper instead). Ironically, the accent color Timothy liked was pretty similar to what we already have, but it is slightly more white and less yellow (just hard to see, and it is really pretty close).

We will paint the trim white (and possibly the ceiling) when we paint the rest of the upstairs trim white, which is part of our color scheme for upstairs. Also in the long-term plan is to replace the light blue carpet with something more neutral.

The whole time Jared was painting, he kept saying, “I can’t believe I’m painting a wall red.” Apparently, it just went against his true blue blood. But red is one of Timothy’s favorite colors (he wanted his other walls to be black. His request was denied). He got his red. He’s pretty happy about it. I actually like it more than I thought I would. What I really like is finally having some color in the house that I put there.

What I did learn is that I have no idea how we are going to paint the rest of the house with my little nearly 2-year-old around. As it is, Jared pretty much had to paint the room himself and I took care of the toddler and keeping the cat out of the room. Maybe I can convince a grandma or two to kidnap my kids so that Jared and I can spend an uninterrupted day or two painting. Once, of course, we get that stupid wallpaper glue off the walls.

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  1. GrammyzanneJune 29, 2010 at 5:53 PM

    Timothy's room looks nice. That is a long colorful red wall. Thomas seems to like the room also.

    Too bad we don't live closer. I could watch the kids and you could paint. And Jared could come help assemble all 20 of the cabinets in the garage awaiting assembly.

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  2. TawnieJune 29, 2010 at 7:42 PM

    If I'm free I am totally up for stealing your children. And red is a fabulous color! Timothy is just showing his innate good taste! :)

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  3. JoanneJune 30, 2010 at 1:22 AM

    Looks terrific. Just right for Timothy and Thomas.

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