Extreme Apartment Makeover

Why would one paint and apartment one has to paint back once one moves? Simple, because one is pregnant. I was bored of our drab little townhouse and found out that we were allowed to paint! However, we have to paint it back once we move, which could be as early as this october. I was so excited to paint and knew I wanted to do something a bit different. This is what I had to work with...

Not much to look at.

Really sad looking room.

I looked online for inspiration. I found myself being drawn to blues... who knows why? I never have been a blue person in my life. These were my "inspiration" pictures...

Love the overall look of this room.

Loved this striking blue color.

So I love the look of the top picture. However, I wanted to make more impact with the paint color. So I decided that I would "meet in the middle" with a color by the name of "embellished blue" . You can't go wrong with Embellished Blue can you? Well this was the result...

Yikes!

Trust me. It looked worse in person. Due to my current condition, I wanted to avoid the paint fumes so my wonderful husband and brother David painted the entire living room. After David went home Danny and I were sitting on the loveseat looking at the walls. I asked him what he thought of it. "It's really blue" he says, trying to spare my feelings. I blurted out that I hated it and then proceeded to cry. I woke up that next moring not hating it as much as the night before but then my mother told me that all I needed was pink flamingos on the wall. So... I painted it again. My mother offered to help which Iwas great because I didn't want to put Danny and Dave through that again. We picked out some fabric for drapes and took a color from that. And here are the results...

Much better!

My beautiful drapes mommy made for me!

I still have a lot I want to do. I want to bring some hints of orange, chocolate brown and zebra print. It's a lot of blue right now, but I love it so much more that both of the before pictures!