The Break-Up: Powder Blue

The previous owners of our house really loved powder blue.  Virtually every room in the house is painted this color, or has evidence that it was once painted this color.  Even the kitchen cabinets.  Really.

We were lucky enough to have almost 5 weeks between closing day, and moving day, so the first thing we did after the house became ours (actually, maybe the weekend before) was collect all the paint chips we could get our hands on.  We tackled the living room first.

Here's the listing photo of our living room.

And here's what it looked like all ready for a new color!  As you can see the previous owners left the rug because they heard we love powder blue too.  We left the brackets for the curtain rods up partly because we thought we might be able to reuse the rods, and partly mostly because it wasn't really clear how to take them off....

Husband made the inaugural brush strokes, marking our very first moment of home improvement.  It took him a long time to paint the whole room with that tiny little brush...

The new color is Linen, by Eddie Bauer.  It's warm gray, taupe, and occasionally olive (which was unexpected).

Here's the big moment where we said goodbye to powder blue forever!

...err, don't look in the adjacent room.

Here's the finished product.  We also repainted the window trim, and replaced 2 vent covers so they all match.  The stool you see here was officially the only chair  in the house until we moved in, and it only ended up here because of an unrelated mishap.  In the early days, a lot of frozen pizza was consumed while leaning or sitting on the kitchen counter very late at night...it never occurred to us to bring over something to sit on.  We prefer to whine.