Just a Little Paint Makes All the Difference!

Since Ben came home from deployment, I've had some extra time on my hands. Well, actually he hasn't really been "home," his ship has been on quite a lot of underways lately---Boo. (For those of you who don't know: an 'underway' is when the ship goes out to sea for training. The length of an underway can vary anywhere from 1 or 2 nights, to a couple of months--but less time than a deployment.) Since he's been out so often lately, I've had to focus my attention to our house. The first 7 months we lived here I didn't do too much decorating to the house since Ben was deployed and I was working full time. Really, I just positioned the furniture and that was about it. Living in this house for a few months has really given me the time to notice little things I would like to change about it---especially the fact that EVERYWHERE you look everything is the same color! Painting the trim the same color as the wall? Not my cup of tea. Here is an example:

Yikes. This lovely color was in our half bath downstairs. I'm happy to show you the brightened up version:

So much better. Now without further ado I will give you (and my husband) a 'before & after' tour of the few rooms I have finished painting.

Here is the half bath downstairs:

Back Guest Bedroom: (Now a light yellow & white trim)

Master Bedroom: (Now a dark gray & white trim)

The Master bedroom looks extremely blue in these pictures, but that is due to the sunlight and the reflection from the bedspread. The walls are actually a dark gray. It took us a while to find the gray we liked (we even painted half the room with another color before we decided it wasn't the correct gray we wanted).

So there it is. I still have one more bedroom to finish, which I will post later...as well as the rest of the downstairs. The interior renovations are coming along slowly but surely. It's great to look around the house and realize that it's becoming more of our home day by day.