Ta-da!!

We officially have paint! We ended up choosing Glidden's Wood Smoke (Eggshell finish).

Mark and I spent yesterday painting our living room and then cleaning up after ourselves. There are still some touch ups to do (and painting the trim), but everything else is done!

I even unloaded some of my books to the mantle; they are happy in their temporary home. Also, the TV is not on that ugly desk anymore...I put it on the vanity (sans mirror) I got from Mark's dad (I still need to buy drawer pulls for it). This is not the final arrangement for our living room, but it works for now!

We also put up our curtain rods and some of the sheers I had from our old house.  I need to find the perfect panel curtains to go in here (in front of the sheers). As you can see from the top picture, I also hung some curtains I had on one of the back windows. We haven't put up all of the rods yet, though we have had most of them for awhile.

Remember that ugly desk the TV was on? Well, I painted it and it is a computer desk (see above pic). Once the "wood room" is organized a little, it and our computer will go in there. Mark thinks it is so ugly out here, and I agree, but I don't really want to be holed up in a storage room when I want to go on the internet.

Here's a few shots I took while painting:

On this back wall, I plan to put up 5 or 6 Lack shelves from Ikea:

Ikea

They are floating shelves, so you don't see any hardware, which I really like. And I think the white ones will look good...I think I'm going to have a lot of white accents in this room to brighten it up.  I still haven't figured out what configuration to do. They come in three lengths - 6 ft, 3.5 ft, and 1 ft - and I'm not sure exactly what I want...my books and pictures and pottery will live on them. I think I'm going to cut out some cardboard on lengths and tape them to the wall to see what I like. The blank wall itself is 13'x8'...so it's a big blank slate.

Today, we start the basement clean out! If I have time I'll give you an update on our progress today.