Like I said last week, President’s Day Weekend was probably one of the most productive weekends of my life. What started with just wanting to paint the hallway wall chocolate brown, turned into a whole circus of projects. My next few posts today will highlight all the craft projects I took on over the glorious 3-day weekend. Get excited! Lets begin with what started it all…the hallway!
When we first moved in, we painted the hallway a Carolina blue color and called it a day. Over time, I started to hate the color. It was too bright and when the sun hit it, things got ugly. It just didn’t fit in with the rest of the apartment. It was time for a change. Peace out blue wall!!
And hello new project! Remember when I said I had a lot of random frames and pictures just hanging around the apartment, well here ya go.
There’s a lot of them. And they all had wedding pictures in them. Ugh. I wanted to use them, but I had to switch out those pictures stat! We arranged them into a pattern we could live with and then started plotting what photos we would replace the current pictures with. Willie was a big help, I swear it looks like he’s smiling. See, he likes to redecorate too 
Holy chocolate brown wall! I actually really love the color, which is good because there’s obviously no turning back now. It’s dark but not too dark and it doesn’t overwhelm you when you walk in the apartment. A win-win! So we started putting the pictures up on the wall and we realized it was turning into a bit of an overkill, pictures everywhere, ahh!
So, our end result was just a few pictures on the wall to balance everything out. Voila! I love the giant picture of Willie in the top right. And sorry about the weird lighting, I’m working on using the manual settings on my camera. It makes the wall color read a bit differently, it’s really much more like the above picture.
And remember when I was just going to paint the hallway wall brown? Well that spilled over into the kitchen entryway and then I scored these awesome wall flower and candle vases from CB2 in SoHo for $1.50 a piece, woo!
And here’s a nice panoramic shot of before.
And after! Excuse the ugly flash. I feel like the brown just fits in so much better. I thought about continuing the paint all the way to the right by the closet as well, but I got tired and decided to call it a day. Oh yea, back in December we added a vintage print of an 1874 map of NYC above the sofa. Get one of your own at Art.com.
Total cost for this part of the makeover: $55 for paint, photos, vases and flowers. Score!
Next up: the kitchen and breakfast nook!
