I think the last time I painted was at my parents’ house when I was in high school, and I’m not going to lie. I’m pretty sure my mom painted most of it. Plus, I had only one window, a closet door, and the entrance door. So my painting “job” was pretty simple that time. When we decided to paint the downstairs of the house during my winter break I was all for it, and I still am – just not as excited. My hands are blistered, and I’m pretty sure my right shoulder wants to kill me. It is finished though, and I am so happy.

Here is what the room looked like before. It had a lot of brown, and it was very closed in. While Elway is not a hyperactive dog, he is really HUGE, so not having that much space between furniture did become a problem. So we cleared everything out (minus the couch) to make room to paint and to start from scratch furniture wise.

Then we started taping things off and putting paper down to protect the floors.

I must say. Taping was probably the worst part for me. We kept the plastic that wrapped our new mattress just for this project. Because I wanted a deep purple, I asked some resources and decided to use Benjamin Moore paints. Initially I chose “summer plum”, but after we bought the paint and took it home. I realized that was not what I wanted without even painting anything. I took it back and luckily they were able to darken it, and I can’t say enough good things about Star City Paint. I had them darken it as close to “grape juice” as possible, but really our color is a custom color. It’s pretty darn close to grape juice though.

Here are the walls with just the primer:

Then here is the final product:

(Painting was really tiring for Elway)

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