paint therapy or basements are big

We've done a great deal of painting.

I don't really enjoy this task..

but painting over the wildlife boarder

pure therapy!

After spending every weekend painting

the crap out of this place I really

needed something to motivate me to want

to paint an entire basement.

So this is the tan color and boarder

that was there before:

More difficult than painting the basement

was coming up with a color to paint it!

Since it's a basement we didn't want to

go too dark to avoid cave-like atmosphere.

But certainly not white and the tan

the basement had been sporting was not

going to work with my new sofa.

my new sofa!

 Another factor was that Husband was intent

on having a grey for around the bar area.

We planned on doing the bar area in

a darker tone than the rest but the

color for the rest of the basement had

to go along with it.

I didn't want grey sofa next to grey walls,

and after looking at every paint sample

home depot had to offer- I finally found it!

We ended up going with a light blue/grey

for the living area in the basement.

I think it complements the furniture well

and really makes it feel cozy.

For the bar the color is almost a slate

grey/blue color that makes the bar

seem intimate, yet doesn't clash with the

wood of the bar area

The one thing we'll change here is
we decided it was silly not to paint the
wall that is right of the bar.
So we're going to paint everything
left of the door frame the bar color,
as well as husbands whole office area

But that is yet another task,
for yet another day