I spent most of yesterday staying dry in my house and painting my living room. It was actually a fun project and, since the living room neighbors my bedroom, necessary to bring some color to the downstairs part of my apartment.

As you can tell from these two pictures, the walls were in dire need of painting. The off-white color made the room feel dingy and drab – which is something you want to avoid when half your apartment is basically in a basement. I wanted to paint this wall blue, but I wasn’t sure which blue I wanted. After an hour or so in Home Depot (in addition to the past few weeks of playing with color design in my head), I finally decided to purchase a gallon of Glidden Paint, Satin Finish, Caribbean Sea Blue. I came home and shared the color with my roommate and she loved it. Without wasting any time, we went to work:

The results were exactly what I wanted. A fun blue colored wall that changes depending on what kind of light I have up against. With little light, it looks dark and deep. With a lot of light, it pops off the wall. As we debate on how we’re going to paint the other walls in the room, this stands up as the perfect execution of the vision in my head. I’m very pleased and can’t wait to get started on the other walls in the living room…