I think I'll just supervise.

My Hunger Games obsession has taken over my life and thus delayed my blogging! I suppose I can take a short break to provide some quick updates. So, last you saw we painted our living room. Well, since then we have painted two other rooms. Actually, to be honest, we painted them the same week we painted the living room. I don’t know why we decided to paint three rooms before hosting Easter for 23 people, but we did. We are nuts, but I wouldn't have it any other way. (Although I'm shocked we pulled it off, Easter went off without a hitch!)

Although I swore I would never paint again after my traumatizing paint job with our living room, I found myself with a brush in my hand just a day later! The hallway is one of the projects that I was really itching to start. It’s the first thing you see when walking into our house and I really wanted to give a good first impression. I figured, maybe if they walk into a nice hallway they will totally ignore the fact that we have a huge empty dining room! Anyway, the hallway was on our to-do list and painting is certainly the first step. I wanted something subtle and of course in the gray family so I chose Olympus White. I know the name has white it in, but it’s NOT white!

So with a bucket of non-white paint in hand, we began another painting journey. Surprisingly, it wasn’t nearly as bad as the living room. Maybe that’s because I took on more of a supervisory role, carefully watching my husband paint to make sure he didn’t spill. His painting skills have really improved in a matter of a day. So, I let him run with it.

Before:

During (Nice job, Jay! Keep up the good work. We've got many more rooms to go!):

After (It's hard to actually see the paint color because of the lighting. We only painted this portion of the hallway. Didn't want to tackle too much before the family came over for the holiday):

I don’t know what brought it on or what was running through his head, but apparently he was so inspired with the hallway that he decided to tackle the main bathroom. You may remember from my last painting post we bought 5 samples of paint – one of which was Glad Yellow.

This swatch really doesn't do it justice.

I love the color combination of gray and yellow. It was actually one of the combinations that I considered for our wedding. (We ended up choosing gray and magenta for our colors.) So you can imagine how excited I was when it hit me that we have yellow paint and a gray bathroom that it is in need of cheer. This bathroom turned out to be our most thrifty project to date! At a mere $7 for a sample can of paint, we were able to add a nice touch to this ever-essential room.

Before:

After:

It certainly looks a bit more cheery if I do say so myself! Well, that’s three rooms down and what seems like a million more to go. Our next big project is the dining room. I have a feeling it will be quite a challenge. Needless to say, we are going to take a small break from painting before we tackle that one. On to the next project!