Professional Painters are Awesome...

Normally I'm all for painting myself, really.  I'm that crazy person that actually ENJOYS painting rooms.  However, when my contractor suggested having his guy do the painting I jumped at the opportunity.  Thankfully, we're under budget at this point (HOW BOUT THEM APPLES?!?!) so I was all in.  Little Eileen has taken up a lot of time (which she should...) and the chaos that ensues everyday is absolutely amazing with no kitchen and everyone living upstairs. I am so looking forward to my family having a set routine again. I'm dying over here.

They came in and painted the kitchen walls and all of the new trim in the kitchen, the new door opening, and the baby's room.  I will never get over the feeling of joy I receive from seeing trim go from bare wood to white, or more impressively, from poop green to white.  I had every intention to snap these photos, but you know, life.  You get the idea though.

Here is the before and after as far as the trim change in Eileen's room.  Big improvement, not horrible, but come on, it's a baby girl's room.  Let's jazz this up.

Now let's talk about some paint colors.  

I elected to paint her room myself because that's the easy part.  Moldings and windows are 10x more tedious.  When I was trying to pick a color for her room I wanted something that said "baby girl", but not too obnoxious.  Her bedding has a good bit of colors (corals, teals, yellows, etc.) but I really wanted a super light color that felt pretty neutral.  I decided I wanted to look in the corals for a color.  That is a lot harder than I initially thought.  There are VERY few options for a really faint coral color.  In fact, at our local Sherwin Williams, they didn't have ANY that were super light.  These were the 4 options I picked out.

Some of the colors I LOVE, but wow, too bright and dark.

The new fresh white paint also really helped make the colors pop as well.  I ended up choosing the lightest color.  When I first put it on the wall it looked almost white, but then next to the new bright white paint, it was PERFECT.  Yep, going with that.

I love the new color and I can't wait to actually put her room together (spoiler, she's been in it since August but I'm just putting this up because life...).  Eileen will only be in this room while she's a little baby.  Once she's over one (or when we feel comfortable with it), we'll be moving her upstairs to the now guest room, and moving the guest room down here.  Either way, even though we chopped a solid 4 feet out of this room to enlarge the kitchen, it's still a great size for a nursery or guest room.  Babies don't need a ton of space, and we don't want guests to get TOO comfortable...(sorry mom and dad). So far Eileen is love it! :)