Mt. Everest of bedrooms: conquered! And a little time off...

I'm sitting on the patio at my home/house right now, watching the foster kids playing in the yard and wishing I was looking at water.

We had to come back here for a week for a series of doctor appointments, foster kid appointments and a Celebration of Life service for our wonderful neighbor Pat.

This is the first full week that I haven't touched a paintbrush since some time in June; that part is nice!

I look forward to getting back to work at the house next week with fresh energy.  Meanwhile, I need to do some work in the almost-jungle of a yard here and (yay!) make some thrift store visits for some of the little things The House of Goodwill still needs.

I was able to get bedroom #3 painted last week before we left, and it's time to post photos!

Again, I will post the before pics first, because the color change in this room really made a dramatic difference.

Before: dark brown walls and dark stained molding.

After: light "orange" walls and white molding.

This room - like the rest of the house - just felt so dark!

I may try to line the back of the bookcase with some wallpaper, or maybe just paint it - just to lighten that area up a little too.

The dark brown bathroom before

And after.  Now it's a light green.

I'm hoping to paint the vanity next week.  It's definitely older (not cool vintage older, just older) and it could stand to be replaced, but building a dock area outside is our budget priority for this year.  We'll see what next year brings.

The closet before, looking from the bathroom.

The closet after, painted the same color as the bedroom.  It was the lightest shade on a strip of orange paint shades, the color is "sandy beach."  I would have loved to have gone another step darker with the colors, but these bedrooms only having one window per room just really needed more light.

Looking from the bathroom into the bedroom.

This color change was a fun one!

And one last pic of the color difference.

I have always loved painting for its amazing transformational power.  I love how fresh and clean a room can feel, just by getting new paint.

In about two weeks, I got all the molding and walls painted in this bedroom, including the attached bathroom and closet.  

All things considered, I'm happy with that!  I only have one bedroom left to paint, but the foster kids sleep there and I can't do it until they leave.

Mt. Everest of bedrooms, I conquered you.

On to a new mountain next week...