Shot in the Dark

I went over to the apartment tonight to drop off some frozen foods and to take a look at the painting in progress. I have no idea whether this is an accurate depiction of the walls in the 2nd bedroom. I couldn't find the light switch and I didn't want to run my grubby hands over walls that were barely dry. So I took this photo in the pitch dark room, with a flash, and you are seeing it for the first time, as am I. I am so glad I decided to spring for taking down the ugly wall mounted yucky bookcases- and delighted with all the blissfully smooth walls. This is the only room where the shutters are finished, rather than white-painted wood. The white ones are at the shop getting painted, and will be back soon.

 

The second photo is the living room. As it is mostly fireplace, it's mostly trim, but you can see the wall color above the mantle. It was taken with a flash, too, but in a lighted room, as was the one of the dining room, below:

 

It is a fabulously tidy job,of painting, far beyond the sort of paint job I could pull off, and I'm really tickled. I think it's going to look pretty good. (Gotta straighten that bottom shelf on the dining room built-in! Crooked stuff drives me crazy, perhaps a residue of my 7 pre-law-school, post-college years as a picture framer.)

I have two more days to get organized, and I'm a mite addled, and tired, but looking forward to being there.

Comments

[Foodelf]

Lindy - I just love the colours, regardless of flash/night-time effects, they're very close to some of my personal favourites. What a great job the painters are doing.

Best of luck with the last flurry of packing and organizing and with the move ... SO exciting!

Foodelf

[N]

The colors look lovely! Soothing and yet stimulating...!! The painters are doing a wonderful job.

[lindy]

Oh, I'm glad you like them too. I was there this afternoon, midst fussing with stuff here, and dealing with a perfectly sweet junkman, who took my excess useless mess away for a song. (I finally put up the money and joined Angie's list, which is where I found him. He is a true paragon among junkmen, and separates recyclables with great care. I do not think it would be excessive to say he was "jolly", either. )

The colors do indeed look like this in the light- at least on my monitor, it's quite accurate. They will be painting my bedroom, and putting the white shutters back in tomorrow. Cutting it pretty close, we are.

[Melynda]

I too appreciate a good paint job, and not one that I would produce! Not only can I not see straight, I cannot paint straight. Rather a problem if you want a nice and crisp job. So far this is coming together nicely.

[Arlene Wise]

Yes! The colors are very nice. I do like them better on the walls than on the cardboard--although maybe you could hang that depiction as a "modern" landscape.

Sounds like you'll be in home for the holidays. Enjoy!

Arlene