The majority vote was color #3 (down).
It was Pantone's color of the year, Emerald.
Is it just me or is that not really emerald....more teal/turquoise.
The only picture i can find on the blog of this little space is from this past halloween...
It's the small hallway where the wreath/crosses are:
It's the small hallway where the wreath/crosses are:

This little hallway has always bothered me.
The HUGE plugs for the alarm system. the HUGE key pad for the alarm system, the 'i was once cream now i'm just hideous' colored door bell cover, and the thermostat. ew.
This is the wall that your eyes first travel to when you walk through my front door.
Such a view...
...such a boring view.
I've known for a while that i needed to do something with this area.
Paint the trim, find a bold color, hang up some art work, make it look presentable.
I actually gave a little sneak peak of the artwork a while back on my instagram.
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So this past weekend i got to work.
I was having Beverly's going away drop-in at my house saturday night and decided that i was stupid crazy enough to get it knocked out before then. Last week i painted the trim; which i loathe painting brown trim...seriously it takes forever and a thousand + coats of primer and paint.
Friday night i bought a quart of emerald and used the test paint jar to trim everything out.
Saturday i painted...and painted...and painted. It took about three coats to cover everything.
There are still a few spots that need some touch ups, but i was in a rush (i finished at 2pm, people were coming over at 6pm) to have the paint smell gone by the time people got there.
Also, a quart barely made it for this space; if i hadn't used the sample jar to trim i would have been SOL.
Here is the finished product:
I still have to hang more pictures and potentially find some cool way to cover the random hideous panels; maybe something like this i'm not sure yet, any ideas?
Things left to do:
+ touch up paint
+ hang pictures
+ cover panels (alarm, thermostat)
+ maybe get a new door heading into the little hallway?
+ new light fixture














