Sunday, June 10, 2007

Three Weeks Later...

Okay, so it's three weeks later and we are hanging up our paintbrushes! Just for comparison, I found some older pictures so you can get the idea of what we had before: blah off-white everywhere. It's so much fun now to see the new colors on the walls: not terribly bold, saturated colors, but colors none-the-less. THE FAMILY ROOM BEFORE (Christmas 2006) THE FAMILY ROOM AFTER THE DINING ROOM BEFORE (with John before the Swedes/Americans SVF party in 2006) THE DINING ROOM AFTER THE LIVING ROOM BEFORE (with Jed's parents post-wedding last summer) THE LIVING ROOM AFTER Pretty simple, really. Like when you get a new outfit for the first day of school, or a fresh composition notebook for a new class, changing the color of a room (or two) can renew your spirit. A chance to start anew, a chance to get rid of dusty, cluttered shelves and give things away that not longer are wanted, needed or desired. A chance to start the morning with sun streaming through freshly painted window panes. And, yet again, to find out that the spouse you married all those years ago was a good, no GREAT, partner in painting once again. (Even if he did think he did the windows and doors better than I did, and that I was odd for wanting to paint the front door black -)

8 comments:

Melissa said...

how lovely. i want to curl up on your sofa with a cup of tea, in front of that beautiful window full of sunshine. what a great job!

Melissa said...

fyi: there are new pics from the wedding up on the site! :)

Jed and Anne said...

Surprisingly, I think that this looks fantastic, and I am not freaked out by it at all...it looks great! Your hard work (and dad's) has paid off. It really does look like a new home, and it looks like a very lovely home at that!

Linnea said...

Looks great-it is so much work! PS-Love your library pics-are you free in August to help me set up my classroom? ;)

simplicity said...

Looks WONDERFUL! I love that window in your living room, looks so welcoming and wonderful!

Nice work!!!

Ingrid said...

I love the new colors! You really do have a pretty home. I'm glad to know you like to check my blog. I'm going to put a link on my blog to your blog! :)

Jed and Anne said...

Looks great! How about the front door

Lindahl News 2 said...

That last comment....was it from Jed? (Otherwise Anne posted twice)
The color of the black door is just right, but that paint was too streaky...we're still working on it.