The living room is PAINTED!!!

Thanks to mom and her friend Anita for driving three hours to help me paint our living room. While they were both hesitant about the color, they both decided they liked it by the time they left today. Here's before:

And here's after:

(The mirror that used to be over the fireplace is currently resting in front of the fireplace, but it will go out to the back alley for whoever wants to come along and take it. Alley recycling. Gotta love it.)

I love the color. It's brighter than it looks in the photo - not so pastel-minty. Think ... new leaves on a palm tree. It's called "Crocodile Smile" and that's half the reason we picked it. :)

We still have stuff to put back up on the walls, and for the family photos that we have lining the stairs, I'm going to spray paint the frames all the same color (turquoise) and re-hang them.

It was a whole hell of a lot of work, but I love it.