Weekend Project - the Dining Room!

So I decided that this weekend I wanted to paint the dining room.  It's one room with 2 windows and 2 doorways. How tough could that be, right?

We had to go get some extra trim paint but we already had the wall colour. However, in typical fashion, I decided when I was at the paint store to get some more wall colour. A new shade? Nope. Same shade, different paint.

Remember how I told you about the steal I found on the hallway paint? Well we had bought that paint and had it tinted to the darker colour we wanted for the dining room. The paint type was eggshell, which many people told me would be fine for the hallway and really the whole house if I wanted.

We painted the hallway in it and while I like the colour, the sheen bothers me because we have wonky plaster walls (as is typical in a house like this) and the sheen hilights every bump and crack. Ugh.

So I bought our wall colour in matte/flat.  Hubs thought I was silly, but I think it is the right move.

Will we repaint the hallway? HELLS no.  It was the WORST to paint the hallway and I will NEVER do it again.

Here is a before picture:

I know - it was actually already really nice (IMO).  However, we don't have all that many renos to do so we'd like to feel like we've made our mark and that it is our house and not the previous owners' you know?

I also took one more picture to highlight the blue crown mouldings - see if this one is more descriptive.

So you can see that the left is the side I had just painted and the right is what it used to be. It looks white, but let me tell you. It was baby blue/white.  In my painting I found that the walls used to be dark green and at one point red, so it isn't so surprising anymore that the mouldings were blue!!

So hubs is out for the day but I've convinced him to tackle the walls this afternoon/evening :-)