Savannah Jane

Happy New Year to all of you Part II!

We have been tying up a few home improvement loose ends over here and I thought I’d show you the results of our work.

One of our home’s former owners is a painter: quite an accomplished landscape painter, but unfortunately that passion also led to enthusiastic faux painting of lots of the surfaces of our house. I’ll show you the mural we have in our bathroom sometime. The most egregious example of this passion was in our guest room – the room I referred to as ‘the seizure room’ since we moved in. It was mostly the combo of the walls and the bedspread which made it so crazy, but people, who does this to a room?

Here’s a close up.

You know, I get that this was a lot of work to do, but this room has been a thorn in my side for a while, so I was so excited when Conor said he was ready to paint it! Yippee!

I have been wanting to try out some of the no-VOC {volatile organic compound} paints for a while and we decided to give it a go in this room. The VOC’s are the strong fumes that paint gives off and they can out-gas for up to 5 years and make the air in your home more toxic. When you wash it down the drain, it’s also bad for the water supply and bad for the Earth in general.

The paint we used {Mythic Brand} IS more expensive than traditional paint {partially because I bought it at the local mom and pop hardware/general merchant store} but I am really pleased with the results. There was a slight smell to the paint, but NO fumes. Seriously, you couldn’t tell we’d painted one hour after we were finished. The smell didn’t waft all over the house like it normally does when we paint. It also had a really nice coverage to it. We did one and a half coats of primer and one coat of paint – done! We have a few touch up spots to take care of, but in general it was great.

I know you’ve seen all the crazy colors we’ve painted our rooms in the past, but we went a little neutral for this room. I’ve got a decorating scheme in mind. I’ll post photos of the completed room when it’s done, but here is the color. Ahhhhhh….much better.