Living with Swine
In light of my professed 2011 Home Goals from last week, I thought today I’d talk about how many “swine walls” I still have to paint in my house by showing you some before photos. I know! Can it get any more exciting on a Monday morning?! So awesome. Not sure if this will motivate me or depress me.
Let’s talk about my swine dilemma in a little more depth, shall we?
You can see in the above photo that I recently painted my dining room, but then I just kind of stopped mid-wall between the dining room and the living room. Once you go into the living room, you’d pretty much have to keep painting forever. And so if I went on to paint the living room, I had to make some decisions. I was paralyzed.
I’m really bad at making decisions.
It is an overwhelming amount of swine to deal with. I know it is hard to really capture the true essence of swine in my photos. In fact, you might even think the walls look just fine. But as I’ve mentioned, the swine walls give everything a sickly mauve glow instead of the warmth I want. Here is a better picture of what swine really looks like, in a before picture from my family room.
I’m SO ready to kick the swine to the curb. But it won’t happen overnight. I’m going to have to just keep on painting. And painting. And painting. Annnnd….dddd, painting.
Look up, look down, look to the right and left, swine is everywhere!
Another collision of new paint and swine.
Swine on so many walls, in the living room, in the entry, and all the walls connect to other VERY TALL WALLS that go upstairs and down hallways.
Can you see why I’ve been overwhelmed? I’d rather go hide under my pillow than to face all the swine. But every day I wake up, and there it is. Mocking me.
And this is not even all of it. Every.single.bedroom, bathroom, office and my laundry room are still covered in swine. I am not even going to show you all the rooms with swine walls because it would make this post five times as long and ten times as depressing. We’ll talk about those rooms in a separate post sometime, when I can muster up the energy to face it.
Let’s not forget, though, how far I’ve come with the Great Swine Cover Up in the past year! Even though I’ve been kind of lame for not reviewing my top projects of 2010 yet, eek…FAIL on my part…I did actually make a bit of progress with room painting in 2010.
Have you started working on any of your Home Goals for 2011 yet?
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When we lived in GA the house we bought had a similar swiney color in a lot of the rooms of the house. The whole basement level, the foyer, halls, bedrooms. You get the picture. Some rooms bugged me more then others. It just depended on the light. I painted almost every single room of that 3 story house before we moved. I only had 2 left and one was a blue color. So I know just how you feel. Love the new taupe color. Looks like a relaxing color.
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You crack me up. Who let the swine out, who, who-who? Couldn’t resist. Your home is going to be a beast to paint–I have the big 2 story walls too and had to hire someone for that part. Can’t wait to see the new color palette! What are you going with, or did I miss that post? I’m sure I did. Gray? I’m loving gray.
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Oh duh, the Studio Taupe? Looks beautiful in dining!
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We moved into a house last summer with pinky-beige walls. I do not like pink. I do not like beige. I certainly do not like them together! I never knew the name until I found your blog. My walls are SWINE also! We only have 1100 sf of it to cover though…. and we are over halfway done. The yellow we chose covered the swine quite well!
Keep the faith!
I’m looking forward to your painted rooms. I’m still thinking about what I am going to do with paint. Our son recently fixed the dry wall in our hall and now it’s time to paint, but painting that hall connects to our great room so…..
Jody
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your home is a fabulous palette to work with. we love the homes in Rosemary Beach, http://www.rosemarybeach.com/ where we vacation each summer. It’s fun to look at some of the rental houses for decor ideas…We were inspired by the decor there and brought home several colors we use at our home, Benjamin Moores: “Nantucket Grey, Titanium, Bennington Grey, Briarwood, and White Dove. Can’t wait to see the beauty continue to unfold in your home
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That was a funny post! Sorry about all the swine and I think that MS paint is going to look fabulous!
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Oh Swine……I know it well:(
Boo Hoo Swine! My Swine was called Warm Sand and it took me 5 years to get rid of it. The only hint left is the toilet room in master bath. I ended up having to hire someone to do all the two story areas. That is the problem with all these flowy new homes, the rooms don’t end and you have to commit to a color all through. Oh the pressure!
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I’m wondering what you have on the ledge over the front door. I have a problem with decorating that area since it is narrow and hard to get to. It used to be swine colored too!
I love the new color. I also live in Washington (nearer Seattle than you) and colors here seem weird to me. While I love grey, it is grey outside so much not sure how we would like it inside. We also have one of those strange “what is that for and why is it way up there” plate covers.
I love this post because it’s the kind of thing I would be thinking but may not have the nerve to write.
My husband painted his old house a color that seemed pretty in some light but was way to peachy at other times of the day. It drove me NUTS!
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Heavens! That is a lot of swine!! I can say that I am excited to see what you do with all that swine.
My home goals accomplished thus far…get a packin. We are moving in about a month toward where the city ends and the country begins. We can’t wait, and there will be plenty to do!
OH MY GOODNESS!!
Suddenly my office and hall way don’t seem so daunting!
You are brave and awesome! I can’t wait to see the AFTER pictures.
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As you described your swine colour I thought “thats just what I’ve painted under the dado and picture rails in our hall, sitting and main bed”. Our version is Dulux Sago in Aus (http://www.taradennis.com.au/trends/wintercolours/tabid/754/Default.aspx), but it works wonderfully in our light in the southern hemisphere creating a really ethereal feel. Well it had to better than the dark dusky pink that was there combined with butter cream and a dark eucalyptus green trim!
I do understand the overwhelming nature of painting though as we still have our main open plan living areas to do which we are dreading
This post made me laugh. It is your burden to bear … to care so deeply about color. And so you end up with a warm, beautiful inviting home, unlike me.
My feeble brain, just learns to not notice what I dont’ like. And btw, I think I have that entry way light fixture too … and all the coordinating ones throughout the house. Must be a Northwest thing.
ugh, that IS overwhelming. those big, tall walls are so hard to paint!
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Oh, SOB. I hear you. The SWINE!! What was with it?! Before we moved into our home in June, it was swine. Ev.Er.Y Where. Floor to ceiling. We paid a man $2500 to repaint the entire house, and it was worth EVERY penny. One little room, my craft room, is still pink. It’s a nice reminder of where we came from! (We went with a nice Benjamin Moore grey for most of the main living area, Wedgewood grey (which came out REALLY blue) for our bedroom, and the kids rooms are done up in pink and white for the girl, and blue and sand for the dude.)
Good luck!!!!!!
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Oh, PS – We have a few of those odd plate covers, too. They hide speaker wires, from a whole-house speaker system project that the ORIGINAL owner of our home started. We’re the third owners. heh.
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