Well we did it!

And by we I mean Tim did absolutely everything. I put some tape down in one corner and Monster put some tape on the floor to help.

We painted a feature wall!


Our house belongs to my parents, we're super lucky! Two of the bedrooms are already painted pretty {the end room has an ORANGE feature wall} and Monster's bedroom has a moss-green feature with the other walls being like a taupe. The studio in the backyard has a turquoise wall. My mum is mega into feature walls.

The house is cute. I love it. What I don't love is the peach rafters and the peach floral paper border around the walls.

This is after we took the border off the wall. SUCH a difference in the paint colour.

I really don't like the colour peach, and I think the more I live in this house the more my dislike for the colour grows.

When Tim + I decided we wanted to make our house into a home, we asked my parents if we could paint at least one wall. For the year we've lived here, my mother knows how much I have not enjoyed the peach floral border, but forbade me to do anything about it.

She gave in!

So we painted it 'retro gold'

I am so in love with it. Yellow makes me so happy and  it brightens the whole area up even more{there are a lot of windows in the small living area, which gets lit up so nicely in the day}.

It took tim about 2 hours to prep the area, bleach/sugar soap/mold inhibit the wall and to tape up everything. Then it took him about an hour and a half to do the first coat, and later that night he did the second.




 He painted this wall yesterday!

Tim's pooped face

Ugh it makes me so happy, and mum + dad really like it which works!

Little Monster + his bestie Little Genius playing :3

We have plans for black + white accessories in the living area, you may have already noticed here and here! I'm going to make black and white striped curtains for all four windows in the area {those blinds above the table are going! There are similar blinds around the corner in the kitchen}. We're also going to make little papel picado mexican-inspired flags to go across that peach beam that runs above The Wall. The dining table and chairs Tim is going to paint gloss black.