The Honey-do Project

Since I had a few days off over the New Year's holiday, Cheryl brightly said, "hey, since you have some time, why don't you paint the living room like you've always said you wanted to!" Unassailable logic, that.

The long delayed painting of the living room was in part because the room is thick with window, baseboard and crown moldings. In fact, not one crown molding, but two, just to increase the degree of difficulty.

We picked a color that was part of an Arts & Crafts collection put together by Sherwin-Williams in an effort to stay true to the architectural style of the house. Using more saturated colors, as we have begun to do, is a dicey proposition. If it is wrong, it is really wrong. However, the Hubbard Squash came out just right, we think.

Moving everything to the middle of the room:




Lots of brushwork in this job:






Before:


And after:




A couple of new sconces to match the style completed the transformation:



That ought to take care of the honey-do projects. At least until the next four day weekend.