I’ve recently been focusing on the foyer, because it’s the first thing people see INSIDE the house. Here is what it looked like before:

While it doesn’t look terrible in the photo, there’s a lot left to be desired. For one, the walls and the ceiling were the same color, and I wasn’t too fond of it. Second, the walls on the way up to the second floor were extremely dirty and scuffed, and the second photo shows a bit more of that. Since we’re updating the flooring in the foyer soon, I realized that we’d need to paint the trim and walls beforehand.

So we started to tedious process of painting the ceiling first, which has made such a difference right away. We used a plain white, flat paint for the ceiling in here:

It took two coats of paint, but here is the final product:

Next we started to paint the door and the trim, but luckily, after cleaning the trim it really didn’t need to be painted. There were a few scuffs that needed touch ups, but the doors were all that really needed painted. With as much trim that we’ll need to paint in this house, I was glad to be saved of painting some of it.

We’re now in the process of picking out a paint color for the walls. I’m definitely thinking of gray that will match the bolder colors we already have in the house, but it will transfer well upstairs since the foyer wraps around to the second floor.

I also found another blog that just updated their foyer here. Seeing those photos almost made me want to paint the trim black (I’ve seen it on another blog), but I realized it wouldn’t go with the plum in the living room at all so my sanity was saved.