More Hallway Pictures

Sorry for the lack of posting. I've realized that I am almost incapable of taking a good, true to life picture of our hallway. Our house tends to be a bit dark because it is a row house and we have big trees at the front and the back, so the downstairs gets a bit dark.  I'm guessing that is why the pictures aren't turning out!

This is a picture from the front door area - don't mind the painters tape.  Oh and note to other people trying to paint next to original plaster mouldings - painters tape doesn't cut it!!

This one is the vestibule - we had extra asphalt paint from our bedroom and we put it on the bottom. I actually think I would have liked the entire area that colour (top too). Ah well.

I tried to get a picture just to show the colour but man is it hard!!

Anyways - we did the best we could and it took FOREVER!!  Dining room paint is up next. It should be easier because there aren't so many doorways worth of mouldings to work around!!

Anyways - I will continue my quest for better pictures. I promise!!

Long Weekend Project Teaser

Hellloooo bloggers!

So over the long weekend, between eating turkey and roast beef and stuffing and gravy (twice), hubs and I finally painted our hallway!!!

We started out on the trim because for some reason, our crown moulding was blue.  Like baby blue mixed with white, but there was no doubt it had a very strong blue undertone.

It took us approximately 5-6 hours to do all of the trim painting. Old victorians have INSANE amounts of trim (especially hallways with oh...NINE doorways in them!!).

I'm not sure if you can see the difference in this picture but I thought I'd try...

Can you see what we'd painted and what we hadn't? We used matte cloud white (which is clearly different than the shiny blue white that was there!). The previous owners had left a half can so that is what we used!

So the part on the right is the unpainted blue white trim. Can you tell the difference? Makes the cloud white look beige, but once you put it next to the wall colour that we put up, it looks white white.

This weather has caused some problems for me getting good day-light pictures (oh and WORKING all day and night), so I only have a few so far that don't represent the colour properly. Those will come tomorrow :-)