First Month Changes

The 1950's character of this house was buried. It was buried beneath layers of flooring, it was camouflaged in paint colors not appropriate for our tastes, and it was buried beneath colonial-style trim details (see previous post of living room). On the day of the closing we showed up tools in hand after taking possession of the house only a few minutes before. We walked in with a toolbox and painting supplies. She got busy cutting in a nice pale shade of grey that will go lovely with all of our vibrantly-colored mid century stuff. I've always had great luck with Behr paints, so we went with a color called 'swirling water' - it's a nice pale grey - a bit on the cool side, but close enough to white that it will work with our furnishings without being distracting, and still goes quite well with the mid-century ethos. Every room in the house needed paint, and several rooms needed two coats, even with the milkshake-like consistency of the Behr eggshell with built-in primer that  we picked up at home dumpster. Especially that red.