Before and After, Part Two

This was our first project. Erika and I began to tackle this room all on our own, but we soon became discouraged at our lack of progress. If the previous owner of this house is reading our blog - seriously, four layers of freaking wallpaper? Didn't see that quaint little feature mentioned in the realor's listing. Anywho, Matt and his painting associate came to the early rescue and showed us a few little tricks. That kept our morale up for about a day. My mom did a fantastic job of keeping us focused. That got us to approximately this point (note chandelier upgrade between pics):


Then, near the end when we were ready to finish and accept the imperfections that our amateur eyes would gladly look past, the mother came to the rescue again to make the job look professional.

I think I've mentioned before in previous posts that parts of the house were livable. Well, the dining room was pretty terribly awful. Really, truly awful. We're pretty proud of the work we did in here. The color is actually a historic color called Covington Blue. Why does that name sound familiar? I'm sure it's because the Covington Blue Sox of Covington, Kentucky were the shortest-lived franchise of the Federal League, opening on May 3rd of 1915 and folding by June. And yes, I found that out courtesy of a Google search. Also, the color matches our Ceramica china.

Finally, here's a pic from today of Mike fighting a baby striper. No, you may not have the location of our spot: