This is the beautiful bedroom wall I had to start with.
The glorious wallpaper up close, and a sample I was considering.
Good-bye, ugly wallpaper!
And goodbye ugly wood paneling!
Doesn't the wall look happier blue?
All blue now!
A before and after
The living room's ugly wood walls were next.
The walls kept turning my pretty white primer a horrible brownish yellow color. A friend told me that this is nicotine that was absorbed in the walls coming out. Eww!
White, and then...
Half green...
Unlike most of the rest of the places I painted, the snazzy light switch actually got protected from paint with a hi-tech piece of cardboard.
Lets discuss the green. For some reason, when wet, it looks like a radioactive frog. It's supposed to be that next to top color on the sample. (Mom commented that it's the color of glow-in-the-dark stuff.)
Luckily, it's not so radioactive when dry. Whew! The color is called "window garden". I was worried for a while that I had bought Glowing Nuclear Waste Mutated Frog Green.
The paint color was chosen by the very scientific process of sticking a bunch of samples to the wall. This taught me an important lesson. A color would look one way in the store, one way in my old house, and a whole different color in the new house. Check your samples out in the room where they'll end up!
Green wall!