Home Renovations - Playroom - Progress 1

I have been up to my elbows in paint since my last post (ok, that's a bit exaggerative) but I've made some decent progress on the playroom and thought I'd show you how it's coming.  I know this renovation isn't going to be fast since I can really only work when the kiddos are sleeping and I need to honor any sewing obligations too.  BUT I am pleased at how it is turning out so far.  I have painted at least one coat of the brown on the bead board all the way around the room and have painted two coats on some of the walls.  This is time consuming as it requires a brush to get down in all of the cracks.  I will finish that in the next few days and start the walls.  I'm hoping this weekend is going to be my building weekend for the built-in so I need to get wall "3" prepped and painted.  I went ahead and painted the little bookcase on wall "2" because I wanted to see some COLOR with the brown.  I really like it but I made some painting errors on it.  I should have sanded and primed it first because I know it's going to scrape off as the kids use it so I may be painting it again down the road.  I sold the entertainment center on Craigslist so that is out of the way and adds another 50 buckaroos to the pot.  Cheers for progress...

I'm going to keep the same numbers from the previous post so you can look back at the before and know which wall you are looking at.

 This picture shows the old paint (left) on the bead board with the new chocolate paint (right).

I love the punch the green adds to the brown.  I had the guy at Home Depot color match one of the leaves from the decal that will be going on the wall to get this color.

 Here's a little swatch of the blue that will be going on the walls above the bead board.

Tootles to the old cabinet which is now in the storage room behind that door you see serving a new purpose.  There was some wallpaper that needed removed and check out that wild red!  I like me some red but this color is not very pretty in person and I cannot imagine a room this size painted that color.  Makes my heart start beating fast thinking about it.  I've decided to go with a khaki color on this wall behind the built-in to keep it pretty neutral.  I did a little swatch of the brown and felt it was a little much for the whole wall.  The actual built-in color is still TBD but I'm leaning towards a blue just a shade darker than the other walls and then the part that bumps out for the TV using the pumpkin Orange.  Or the whole thing may be orange.  That still may change :).