More holes in the walls?

Yeah, I thought we were done with this, too. But obviously home improvement is a slippery slope. More like an addiction, really.

We added a window in our cave-like bedroom! We now have a gorgeous 47x47 inch window that faces south bringing us lots of natural light plus a cross breeze. Ahhhh. Awesome.

Mark going to town on the window finishing.

Now we have been doing this long enough that you'd think it would be an easy hole in the wall, siding repair, interior sheetrock repair, paint, blind, done. WRONG! We have learned that no matter how many home improvement projects we put under our belt something will always go slightly awry. This time it was something as simple as paint.

We have a lovely golden color in our bedroom, found nowhere else in the house. Mark chose it when we moved in and I absolutely love it. When our room was a cave it looked deep gold and now with natural light it looks like sunshine kissed the walls. Basically, it is awesome. Naturally, when we repaired the wall, we needed more of this fantastic color to make the window look as though it was always there. (If you read the previous post, this is how staples got into my ceiling. We put up plastic sheeting to keep the sheetrock dust/construction nonsense as far away from our sleeping pad as possible.)

We ordered the same paint name and brand from Home Depot and walked away to grab a few other things. When we came back to the paint counter, the sales person handed us a gallon with a yellowish smudge on it and we went away happily to pay for it. Mark got home and painted the entire wall. A few hours later, we walked back into the room to put on a second coat. But the problem was that our wall wasn't bright golden sunshine...it was sh*t knuckle brown. And the picture above doesn't do it justice. But it was ugly as sin. Believe me. I had to sleep next to it and it was an unpleasant sight.

So lots more painting than we expected. But now we have a finished wall with the right paint color and an awesome window. And our bedroom can go back to normal. Yipee!