Third Project: Bathroom Paint

I'm going to stop numbering these posts any time now.

Project #3 in the new house was to paint the bathroom.  Like the bedroom, it was painted a dirty yellow color with a darkish, dusty blue accent wall. The craft room is painted the same way, actually.  I guess someone at some point got some oops paint on sale.  The walls are also dirty and smudged and dinged, and there's this...thing...here, look:

When people don't know how to patch holes correctly. 

Here's the bathroom before:

bleh

And here it is after:

The new color is homemade.  I took some of the Silvermist from the bedroom project and added it to a bucket of white primer, to make this color.  I didn't care what color I came out with, as long as it was pale enough not to clash with our towels and things.  I'll be honest, it doesn't really blow my skirt up, but it's not yellow anymore, and that darker blue wall isn't looming over us anymore, and it's a nice, fresh, clean paint job, which I love to see.


The blob is a little better, too, after I sanded it down most of the way, filled the holes that appeared in it while I was sanding, and painted over it:

Still ugly.  Slightly less blobby.  

Yay.  The end.

Second Project: Gallery Wall

Whoops!  I thought I posted this a couple of weeks ago. 

The second project in the house was hanging art.  In the living room, there's a floor-to-ceiling fireplace, my china hutch, and several tall bookshelves - which doesn't leave a lot of wall space for artwork.  The solution?  A gallery wall!  Is the internet tired of gallery walls yet?  I don't care. 

TADA

I love it.  I especially love the plants on their little stands making this a whole wall scene.  They kind of ground the art, I think.  As for the art, most of it is just printed out, though the canvases are all originals by me and my roommate. Putting all this together makes me want to paint again.

Ye olde shtick of using paper templates to work out the arrangement: 

What's next? 

This holiday weekend, I'm going to paint the bathroom.  It's the same yellow-and-ugly-blue combo that my bedroom was painted - the craft room is actually done in the same colors.  Pics soon!