progress...

The wood wall went up:

The girls and I worked almost all day on Saturday priming and painting Lauren's room. It looks so nice. When I first put the coat of gray on the ceiling (it's one chip down from the Pale Oak color downstairs, BM Seapearl OC-19) I panicked. It was much browner/pinker than I thought but there was no way I was going to repaint. So we continued. I figured since it was upstairs, I wouldn't have to look at it much. Fortunately it dried a nice light gray color that I love.

Because the walls and ceiling are highly textured, I chose a flat paint to hide the bumps. It does a really good job actually.

Lauren chose green, Valspar Fiddlehead Fern (color matched in Miller Paint) and Maddie was testing the color. We went all renegade and didn't even get a paint sample first. We're such rebels.

But it turns out I love it and so does Lauren and Ellie. Next step is to put a second coat on everything and then get the chair rail moulding up between the paint colors. It is going to look so nice in there and I think bigger. We used to have a green color all the way up the wall.

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