The End of the Hall

Sometimes you’ve just got to take a break from the dirty stuff and do something pretty… something that reassures you that one day this will be a house that is A. clean and safe and B. a place that you will actually WANT to live in.

Most of the whole house is painted in Toasty Gray but, one one wall in the master and at the end of the hall I wanted a bit of a darker color, so we painted those two walls with the color that was two shades darker on the paint chip from Home Depot, the name of which escapes me.

Then I got all DIY-Pinterest-y on the end of the hall wall – using this tutorial (thanks internets):
I found this idea before we closed on the house and so just as soon as I could I wanted to try it.

I ended up doing the work pretty late at night with very little light, since earlier in the week we had removed the hall light so that mom could paint. But, I persevered in the name of craftiness. Over the dark wall I measured and marked the dots, then drew lines with a metallic silver sharpie. It took a while and there are two spots that my straight edge wouldn’t reach leaving us with a couple of wiggly lines which we will lovingly refer to as areas that prove that it was handmade rather than errors  – but, really it came out pretty great.

And this concludes our small detour into anything fun. In all seriousness this little project recharged me so that I could go back to the tedium of the repair/rebuild projects.

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