We Painted the Living Room! (Finally)

After almost four years of trying to talk PJ into agreeing that the living room (and the rest of our house, but that’s a different story) should be white, he finally agreed to us painting it the other night, and he even helped me trim.

For reference, I’m usually the one who paints while PJ demos and builds. It just works for us. But the night we started painting, I rolled the walls while he cut around the trim and it went soooo much faster. And tonight I officially finished painting the rest of the walls and edges and it’s complete! It feels so much lighter and brighter in here and we love it. We’re far from finished, needing art and curtains for layering and finishing touches, and we plan to remove the chandelier (from when it was our dining room) but it feels like a fresh start for the new year.

I say “finally” painting the living room, but to be honest, we loved the warm, earthy color it was before. We get questions on what color it is all the time, and it’s called Urban Putty by Sherwin Williams. It’s the absolute most perfect neutral color of all time and we still swear by it. But, four years into living in this house, our style has slightly changed, and we’re looking to switch things up a bit in each room. We’re also finally taking the time to decorate certain rooms we didn’t make time for before because we have been working on some kind of project nonstop for the last whoknowshowmanyyears. We’re still working on about two right now, but we’re just going for it and making time now. Maybe it’s the optimism and inspiration that comes with a new year?

We can’t wait to share the after photos and settle into this space again. We both have a vision in our head of how we want the room to end up looking and we’re so excited to make it come to life.