Andes Mints and Marquetry

You know the old saying "If it ain't broke,don't fix it"? Well....in the case of redecorating I'm thinking I should have taken heed that advice. After taking down all of the Christmas decorations I commented to Aaron that this would be a perfect time to repaint the great room as we had been talking about it for some time now. Now, if you know Aaron you know that he loves any chance to be creative and to do something different especially in our house. So, he looked at me and said "what color do you want, I'm going to Lowes". Well, I had been contemplating this bright lettucy green appropriately called Lettuce Alone. Kind of the color of a good head of Iceberg. So he went and bought three gallons of Lettuce Alone and I began happily rolling paint on a rainy Sunday afternoon after church. After I got all the way around the room above the chair rail I thought to myself "this is really a lot of green, but I wanted it so I'm not giving up now". After Aaron stared cutting in, because I make a mess when I trim, he so lovingly suggested that we paint a chocolate brown under the chair rail to give the room a little weight to it. Now, I did not want another dark color on the bottom but after staring at all that green I gave in to the artist because he is usually right when it comes to these things. Did I really just say that? Anyway, a day and two coats of paint later I looked at Aaron and commented that the green was actually kind of minty. Like the inside of an Andes mint. He looked at the walls and his eyes got big and he said, "Oh no! And we just painted the chocolate on the bottom!". Well that did it. I knew I was not liking it and now that I knew he didn't either and that it looked like an after dinner mint I put my roller down in disgust. Did my husband sit down and resign himself to the fact that we had just ruined our favorite room in the house? Oh no! He said "come on Steph this is part of the process, this is what makes it fun". Huh? It was midnight and I was ready for bed, and wondering what in the world he was going to do next and thinking that it could not be at all fun. Not only did the room look horrid but we just wasted about seventy dollars worth of paint. So, do you know what my hubby did next? The only thing any good do-it-yourselfer would do. He went to his shop and found some yellow, orange and blue paint and began mixing his own custom color in a big bucket. I'm about to lose it now. I'm thinking "How is he going to get a good color out of this!". Well to make a long story short (too late), he got a really nice darker, yellower green out of it. I went to bed and he rolled the walls until 2a.m. I'm liking the green but still not sure about the brown on the bottom. As you can see we still have some painting to do, but tell us what you think of it. The pictures are not totally accurate but you get the idea. Also, in my montage is Aaron's newest project, marquetry. Check out the rose he did. Oh, and no he has not started building the kitchen cabinets yet. All these little side projects keep getting in the way I suppose! My fault this time!:) Hope you enjoy the slide show.

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