Adventures in Renovation

By popular demand here are some photos of the green wall I repainted in the bedroom. It's a Benjamin Moore paint called Georgian Green. But pretty much looks like the same avocado green that they used to paint appliances in the 70's. I'm in love with it. It's a completely relaxing and happy color. I almost want to paint more of it in the room too. We'll see what it looks like after I put up the photo mural.

At first I tried some orange paints. I went and bought 2 oz. sample jars of Ben Moore and painted squares on the wall with them. They don't have samples of all of their colors, but painting the color on the wall made it so much easier to decide on a color. Then I decided to skip orange and yellow altogether and bought a sample of green. At first I painted it over the yellow wall, but all that yellow changed the color dramatically. Bad idea.

I ended up painting two coats of primer over the yellow to cover it up before I painted the green. So now that wall has 3 coats of primer and 5 coats of paint total.

I'm going to have to pick out a new photo mural. I got a great book out of the library this weekend called Home Cheap Home. I had to pick it up because they featured someone's awesome photomural in it. Some Amazon reviews complain that the book isn't cheap enough like $2k for a kitchen renovation. But people spend a lot more than that renovating a kitchen and with much less style. It's kind of like ReadyMade Magazine in a book.

Originally I wanted a mural of a birch tree forest but I can't find one cheap. This place does custom murals (as seen on Extreme Home Makeover and Queer Eye for The Straight Guy) but they're way too expensive. I think I'm going to go with this forest stream mural. Or maybe this one, or this one, or this one, or even this bamboo forest one. Decisions decisions.