Pollywog!

For some time now, Liz and I have been lamenting the blah-ness of the cream-coloured walls in our apartment. EVERY wall is the same blah colour and they are high walls too... It's a lot of blah to be surrounded by every day. We spent a long time talking about perhaps painting one or two walls ("accent walls" I think Liz calls them) and a couple of rooms, too. We even went so far as to visit Ace Hardware and get a bunch of paint chips to compare and consider... and believe you me, my sense of "colour" is not exactly...shall we say... spot on. I swear to God we were looking and ten greens, but Liz (and the booklet) assured me that none of them was simply "green" and that they were all distinctly different shades - "dried thyme", "Cyprus sage", "Celtic sage", "French gray", "Song of summer", "palmetto" and so on.
Anyway, we had great intentions for the longest time, but it wasn't until yesterday we actually went and got some paint and brushes, etc.!! The "green" we decided on wasn't any of the others (although, if you ask me, it looks exactly the same as all of them) was "POLLYWOG"... and with a name like that, you know you're onto a winner!

So we got home and prepped the dining nook. Yes, sorry, I neglected to say that we had decided to paint the dining nook first. We got some painters tape, which we stuck up around everything and then got started with the fidgety bits first. It felt so good to slop some colour on those blah walls. It was great fun.
Once all the fidgety bits were done, we broke out the rollers and finished off the first coat. It looked SO GOOD, and both of us kept assuring the other of how much we liked this colour and how good it looked on the walls... haha
A couple of hours later we gave it a second coat and before we knew it, the walls were painted. Then it was just a matter of waiting until everything was dry before putting the furniture back in. Hooray for colour on the walls!!

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Dining nook done, perhaps next weekend we might go back to Ace and get some paint for another room... stay tuned!