The trouble with painting two walls in vibrant colors is that the spruce-up makes the remaining wall look pretty terrible. This is especially true if the final wall was your very first building project with $0 budget and involved cobbling together odds and ends of found materials in order to close in the gaping hole in the side of your new home before winter hits.

I'm generally oblivious to clutter and interior ugliness, but I'm pretty sure Mark cringed every time he walked into the room. Time to add some texture to cover up the paneling and slap on a few coats of paint!

The copious windows on this wall made me feel like the surrounding area shouldn't be quite so lumpy and bumpy. So once the joint compound dried, I sanded lightly to bring the texture down to a dull roar. (I still kept some texture to maintain the theme I have going in the space.)

Here's the area after the first round of primer.

And after primer round two. Now for color! Mark thinks we should go with the same light blue that's on the opposite wall. What do you think?

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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