Bye, Bye Gold

We did it!

We have finally painted over all of the gold

in the house!

The golden walls are gone, lost forever,

 never to be seen by anyone who enters again!!

Yes, I know, that does sound dramatic,

but take a look at what I am talking about...

Yep, it was pretty intense.

It was the last to be done  because it was the

most difficult to do and I wanted it to be painted after

we finished painting the basement. 

 The stairway needed

 to bring two looks together,

the industrial cottage from downstairs, and

my mix of Cottage styles from the main floor.

So, I pulled the Cathedral Grey, from the office 

along the bottom half of the walls,

and a few shades lighter for the top half of 

the walls. Natural Gray, to give it a lighter feel.

This little corner of our suburban cottage

 is filled with a lot of memories, although it only

holds a few items, they are all very special. 

 The candle stick is one my mom gave to me, the Lucky Bamboo

 is from my sister many many years ago, and the framed chalkboard  

message was used during a very special and dear friends wedding reception.

It seems fitting as you head to the family room.

This watering can reminds me of

one of my favorite pleasures and past times, gardening.

And the cherry on top is the window 

covering, it came from my Grandma. It has

a beautiful scalloped edge,so no hemming needed...

and it fit perfectly in this spot.  

:)

All I needed was a suspension rod and some ring clips.

I think that the total for the curtain was about $8. 

Living in the subdivision that we do,

there are a lot of homes visible through this window.

Now you see them...

Now you don't!

It casts great shadows on the wall through out the day.

For the life of me I couldn't figure

out what to do about a light!

I really wanted to put a large sparkly chandelier 

right in the center of this window, so it would 

shine when the sun came through.

But, that came with WAY to much work,

climbing into the attic, rewiring,

and to top it off I dont think it would have worked well

with the window covering.

Until I found this little cutie!

It came with a black lampshade,

we changed it up for a neutral one and now it 

works well in this space.

I am really happy with the results!

Paint is one of the most effective way 

of changing the feeling of a room....

I am really enjoying the feeling of the

light grey....hmm.

(I say that as I look at my kitchen)

Hope you enjoyed seeing the changes

in our stairway so far.  Now I can start

working on my plans for filling

 up that blank wall.

I am joining

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