When I moved into my apartment, I was instantly bored with the dull beige paint that covered every single wall. This color made my dining room feel especially empty, since there were just a table and four chairs in it. Not wanting to add useless things in the room just to make it more cozy, I decided to put all those hours of watching HGTV to good use, and paint it a darker, space shrinking color. Luckily, I had been collecting various cans of “oops” paint.
For those of you unfamiliar with this secret, you can go to any Home Depot or Lowes and look for their mistake paint section. This is paint that people return for whatever reason, and ends up on the shelf at a much lower price. The only thing is that the store usually adds a different color to it to prevent people from returning and rebuying it just to get the lower price. But who really cares when you will just be painting a smaller space and will not need a second can? Another tip: Home Depot “oops” paint is cheaper than Lowes. Believe me, I have gone to many. A gallon at Home Depot costs about ten dollars.
So, back to the room…
Donna, my sister, had these yellow curtains that she used in her dorm room. The flowers on the curtains are what I used as inspiration. After I painted the walls the purple and grey colors, I decided more needed to be done, since the room still looked empty and uninviting. So with just a one inch sponge brush, I strategically free-hand painted giant flowers on the walls.
The feeling that I had when I was doing this is almost inexplicable. I felt as though I was in another place, overcome by a sense of freedom and joy. It was almost like sledding down a hill for the first time in the winter and feeling the crisp cool air on your face, or sitting atop a hill looking down over a beautiful landscape of a quiet lake surrounded only by nature, far away from anyone.
Here are the rest of the pictures. I still have to do some touching up with the purple.
Look for the next post which will probably be over the weekend, after I take some picts from halloween. After the halloween costume pictures will most likely be my mini tree landscaping project if I get going on it. (Hopefully I don’t kill the tree before then!)
