Our living room is finally done!  For the past two years, Mandy has been itching to get the outdated wallpaper removed (I just ignored it), but I really didn’t want to do the job myself.  If it was a normal sized room I might have tried, but the ceiling slopes up to about 16 feet and I wasn’t interested in tackling that challenge.

Picking paint colors was a challenge.  Mandy was originally planning on painting the whole room some sort of brown color (she called it Portobello Mushroom, but it’s brown).  We used the Sherwin Williams app on the iPad to paint pictures of the room, which was very handy, but nothing really looked good.  After repeated trips to the paint store to get samples we concluded that all of our choices were just “fine”, but we didn’t want to go through all of this and end up with “fine”.  The day before the painters showed up we finally came up with a plan, got one last set of sample paint, and finally found something we thought we would like.

It took two pros a total of 7 days to de-wallpaper the whole room, repair the walls, texture the walls, and paint the walls and ceiling.  It would have taken me forever and not looked nearly as good.  We were very happy with the painters we hired, and found that we are pretty good color pickers.  They also painted the future kids room, but we haven’t finished putting that together yet, so no picture today.

Before and After