{Home} Hallway Pics

I had my good camera out yesterday (compared to just my iphone) and thought I'd take some more photos of the hallway. It's a hard one to get a photo of, especially when there's this three year old girl saying "taking pictures of me!" and really, who can resist this face?!?

Here are the pictures of the hallway with one of my paintings hung up that I did years ago! I still need to paint another coat (maybe two) on the bathroom door's trim and don't get me started on the actual doors. Some day, probably not this summer but who knows, I will repaint all the doors in this house by taking them off the hinges and doing it properly.

Painting done in Fall 2005 I believe featuring four of my own pets - current and past - Keymo (cat on left), Rugby (big dog), Taz (cat on right), my friend's Boston Terrier Angel, and my dog Sugar on the bottom right. I got Keymo as a birthday present when I turned 4 (her eyes need repainted I know) and she passed away when I was a freshman in college, Rugby was adopted January 2004 and had to be put down January 2011, Taz was adopted from the streets in 2003, Angel was worth the 8+ one way trip to BFE Oklahoma, and Sugar was my Westie pup (although I don't care for how I didn't include her crazy hair at the time) from 3rd grade until the day I graduated college in 2006.

This might be the truest color picture.

View into dining and living rooms, with a very busy 3 year old, coloring on her easel from my dad.

View into the bathroom (the trim in the bathroom is not white but I'll tackle that later and the trim on the hallway side still needs at least one more coat of white paint).

{Hallway} Tall, Teal and Beautiful

Yesterday I showed you my inspiration for the house but I didn't tell you what I was going to do with it. It will be for the majority of the house but the main two rooms you see as soon as you walk in (living room and dining room) are already painted and I am NOT doing that again any time soon in there, I wanted to add a punch of color some where else.

Enter my hallway. It's not much of a hallway, but more of a small area where four rooms branch off from - the dining room, bathroom and two bedrooms (Lily's current room and what I continue to call Lily's future room).

I hadn't touched the hallway since we moved in other than to strip the paint off of the bathroom door frame when I painted the bathroom years ago. It took a lot longer than expected and still didn't give me the look I wanted, although beautiful wood. So it stayed there as is.

BEFORE

BEFORE - door to left is Lily's current room, opening on right is to dining room.

BEFORE - with our semi-nonfunctional door bell (as in it only works some times and isn't loud enough to hear through the house, but I found out why after taking it down).

Progress!

Coat #1. Door to the left is to Lily's future room, open door is to the bathroom (obviously).

First coat. See that horizontal line on the left? It's a bump out area that was added later to allow a vent to go upstairs. I'm thinking of putting a frame above and below it to distract the eye.

Second coat.

First coat done, shot into the bathroom and Lily's current room. You can see that I've started painting the trim to the bathroom as well. It's the same white that I've painted all the rest of the trim in the house I've repainted (living room, dining room, the upstairs).

Dark - it was late and it's a tough corner to capture.

It's not done yet - I still need to fix/buy a new doorbell, finish painting the trim to the bathroom, paint all three doors (that'll be a bigger job for later), and hang up some items. I also want to paint the light fixture too. But it's definitely a big change!!! We'll see what my family thinks about it this weekend when we have Lily's birthday party!

The color is Ocean Soul in Valspar at Lowe's. It's paint and primer in one and went on extremely well! And isn't that name great?!

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