Rocky Mountain Sky

My brother and his wife just bought a house. It's a-dorable!!! And before they move in they're taking the time to paint and update quite a few things. All of the talk about renovating and painting really has made me take a closer look at our home. When we moved in, we were picking paint colors/carpet/fixtures faster than you could believe. We (well, family) changed so much in a month and it was a HUGE improvement, one we've been so thankful for. But I've started to notice a few things around the house I'd like to switch up. Mostly paint colors. And we've started in the living room. I can't tell you what a difference it has made! It was dark green. Everybody would say, 'it feel so cozy!' That's nice. I didn't mind cozy, but it was pretty dark.

While Jenny was visiting she coached us in paint color selection, because let me tell you she has done some research for spiffing up her new home. Here are a few paint swatches she was brave enough to throw on the wall. Can you believe we ended up choosing the upper right paint color? Against the green it definitely appeared only gray. Granted we went a slight nudge closer to blue when we picked our final color.

Jenny was SO excited to do this with us. :) She was right, the paint samples we had bought were a little more powdery blue than we actually wanted. And she TRAVELED WITH her own paint samples. Isn't that great? We ended up going with one similar to something she brought.

The new wall color is the backdrop for Clara in the above picture. I still don't have a whole-room finished picture, because there are a few things we need to do first, like hang up pictures and paint a table. We did buy an entertainment center off of Craigslist. It is huge. We've named it Hercules. Although bigger than we were expecting, it was such an ordeal to move it in that we're keeping it. In the spot it sits. For life.
More pictures to come, eventually.