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Last weekend Taryn and I finally painted my living room. I'd been saying almost as soon as I moved into this house that I wanted to paint the living room, which was a lovely light brown wood paneling. We also had a beautiful mirror collage consisting of a 4 by 5 grid of smaller squares of mirrors. It was clearly a decorating choice out of the early 80's or late 70's.

The color we chose was "iconic ivory." I would have gone with a strait off-white, but Taryn wanted a little color, so we chose this color that was the lightest in one of the green palates.

Although we ran into a minor catastrophe (Sherwin-Williams sold us an alkyd primer instead of a latex primer - we didn't realize this until about 11:30 pm when we tried to clean our brushes and rollers with water) the project was fairly easy (just a Saturday and Sunday's worth of work) and I think was a major improvement to our living space.

We also did some re-decoration that I have been dying to do. With the exception of Yaeka's Klimpt-inspired self-portrait all of our wall art is black and white. We also have more stuff on the walls, and no more African-themed items (my last roommie was from Africa and had a lot of tapestries etc. I can't say I'm a fan of elephants and what not in my living room).

Here are some photos to show the improvements. The "before" pictures were taken after we had already removed some of the furniture etc. for painting plus the lovely mirror thing was taken down. Imagine it above the TV.

Before shots:




After Shots:






Now if we could just do something about the lovely drop ceiling....