Room For Living

Hopefully, you got a chance to take a gander at the pictures I posted a few days ago. If you haven't yet, scroll down the page. Really, it's a delight. Yep... orange walls and a teal closet door. Good times.

The front hallway wasn't an anomaly. This condo has plenty of quirks. Take, for example, the living room wall.

Sure, the wall itself is a fairly normal color. "China White," it's called. The pirate and his lovely wife were sure to let us know that they didn't paint it that color... that's the color it was before they moved here.

Since the condo has cathedral ceilings, there's a lot of wall space. So they made a mural.

Now, it's not great-- but it's not horrible, either. Mostly, it's just not my taste. Neither are the hot-pink floorboards (the blue along the floorboards is painter's tape... not part of anyone's artistic vision).

Something else I should mention-- The hot pink floorboards don't extend all the way across the wall. Nope. They had a big china cabinet (or something else rather heavy-- I can't remember what it was) along one wall-- so they never painted the floorboard behind it.

Anyway, we picked a smoky sage green color for the living room/kitchen. We liked the name of the paint color: "Restful."

Finding furniture we liked was hellish. My mom and I spent a whole day, driving around town, going in just about every furniture store we saw. Couches were about $3000 at all of them. Ridiculous.

A friend of mine had recommended Savon Furniture-- he said they always had good deals in their scratch-and-dent department. These pieces weren't scratched or dented, but they were actually reasonably priced. hooray! (I've since learned that Savon/Kane's has a pretty crappy reputation. Boo!)

Regardless, I used some money that my mom gave me to buy the couch and the coffee table, and Cory's mom bought the end table for us. Everything else is just kind of a mish-mash. The lamps don't match (but that's something we're willing to put on hold for a while), and there's a stack of boxes you can't quite see in front of the bookcase. It's one of the few parts of the condo that's kind of finished, though. When Jan was visiting, all we had in the living room was one 40-year-old chair... and lots and lots and lots of boxes.

I know, I know, you want another picture of the crazy colors around the condo.

Your wish is my command. On the other side of the living room is a breakfast bar, which opens into our kitchen. While the living room and the kitchen weren't painted with that many unusual colors, they had a little fun with the breakfast bar. Note that once again, the hot pink mouldings don't stretch across the entire floor. That's because they had a mammoth entertainment center along that wall, so they never painted behind it.

I don't have an "after" picture for this one. While we've painted the breakfast bar to match the rest of the living room ("Restful" green), the breakfast bar is where all of our remaining unpacked boxes live. But trust me, boxes aside, it looks much better.

Coming up in a few days-- some blindingly vivid photos of our bathrooms. Don't miss it!