A Splash of Color!

That's right...we're putting color on the walls! We finalized the paint colors and Ryan quickly ordered it before I could change my mind! Ryan and I painted the kitchen on Friday night. On Saturday, my mom joined us and we painted the main hallway and entryway and finished cutting in the primer in all the other first floor rooms. Yesterday (Sunday) Ryan and I spent the afternoon painting the family room and the mudroom. The mudroom and the hallway need one more coat, which we'll probably attempt to do tonight after Brody goes to bed. I'm hoping to take at least one day off from work this week to finish painting the first floor and hopefully get started on the second. We'll see! Ryan is trying to finish up the siding today - although there was a pretty good frost this morning and I think he needs to wait until the sun warms the roof until he can safely get up there. So here are some pictures of the painted rooms...we didn't stray too far from Goffstown in the intensity of color on the walls.

Family room - one of the lighter colors in the house...it's called Weekend Getaway, which seems fitting for a family room! There will be wainscotting on 2/3 of the walls (from the end of the green paint down to the floor). This room is probably the darkest room in the house in terms of natural light so we're adding the wainscotting to brighen it up.


These pictures are proof that I really do help!

Hall & Entryway...I'm not so sure if I'm feeling this color. It's called Stone Hearth. I loved it on the color swatch and it's perfect in direct sunlight...the problem is that the hallway has very little direct sunlight. I'm afraid it looks more like fleshtone than "stone". Ryan said I can repaint it when I'm 40...until then he wants to see if it grows on me!

Mud Room...the color in here is called Sparrow. It seems perfect for a mudroom because it pretty much is the color of mud. We LOVE it!

And this is the kitchen...it's called Rushing River. Sometimes it looks green, sometimes it looks blue, and sometimes it even looks gray. I love it...and at the end of a long weekend of painting, the view of the sunset out the kitchen windows was a nice reward!

The view out the front door on our way out! I can't wait to live here!