Spring has sprung

And so has my desire to do some home renovations.

It has been a really long time since I’ve posted anything, and mostly that’s because I haven’t done anything around the house. Call me lazy, or just busy with other things, but the short, drab winter days didn’t inspire me to change anything in the house. I was kind of content with the status quo.

But a couple of weeks ago the weather picked up. Warmer, sunshiny days inspired Will and I to take a second look at that matching couch and love seat for the living room we’d been eying up way back before Christmas.

Well, the timing for us couldn’t have been better. We walked into Heritage Furniture here in Burlington the day after the floor model went on sale. So we saved a few hundred extra bucks, but the immediate availability of the set forced us to paint the combined living and dining room quicker than we’d ever anticipated.

Fortunately, we already knew that we wanted to paint the room green, and had the matting on a grouping of paintings that exactly matched the shade we were looking for. So I popped over to the local Home Depot, painting in hand, and selected a few colour swatches. We stuck them up on the wall and looked at them in all different lights (which mostly consisted of dull grey since the weather turned at that point) and settled on a CIL colour called Woodland Mystery that is now a lively spring shade of sage green on our walls and nicely compliments the Montrose Cream colour of the upholstery.

Photos of the makeover to come. Last week was beautiful and sunny, but I was too busy starting my new job (!) to think about snapping some shots, and it’s been back to dull grey this week. I promise to update at the first sight of sun.

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