Adventures in Renovation

Vicki and I did quite a lot of painting yesterday. About 8 hours maybe. The bedroom is completely painted now. We painted the ceiling and one wall in the bedroom yellow. The other walls are white and one wall will have a photomural of an autumn forest on it. Yeah, I said photomural. Trust me. I saw it on MTV Cribs. It's going to be awesome.

The real eyebrow raiser tho is the yellow. It's yellow. Really really yellow. Canary yellow. Sunshine yellow. Not subtle at all. The more and more I painted it, the less and less I liked it. It's pretty primary, especially in anything less than daylight. Not sophisticated. Very Romper Room. It looks nice on the one wall, but the ceiling is too much. It makes everything in the room very yellow. It's just not relaxing and comfortable enough. It's tense. I breath a sigh of relief when I leave the room. Pretty much the opposite of what I was looking for.

I think I'm going to have to repaint the ceiling. I think Vicki's going to kill me. She thinks I should have made that decision after the first coat. It's true, it would have been easier if I had. We had to put three coats on to get it uniform. But I think we've been trying to talk ourselves into the color ever since we started painting it. I'm just not convinced.

The original idea behind the yellow ceiling was to make it so that you would see this yellow glow when you looked through the transom from the other room. And it sure is cool when you see it from there. But I could have gotten the same effect from much lighter or subtler color.

We also painted the ceiling of the rest of the upstairs yesterday. The ceiling paint we used was pretty cool. It's this magic paint Glidden makes that goes on pink and dries white. It's a lot easier to see where you've painted and where you haven't. It's not a very bright white so I hope it doesn't look weird next to the Behr white I'm planning on painting some of the adjacent walls. Hopefully doesn't do something weird like change color in a couple years.