T Stands for Home Improvement

 Hi everyone. Happy T day. It is always amazing how fast the weeks go by, and we are back to Tuesday again.

Today has been an exciting day for me. Sign ups for the covid vaccine began this morning for my group  in New Hampshire. I went on, battled the system that didn't work 100%, went back an hour later and managed (somehow) to get an appointment today for my vaccine. Shot one is done.

The other news for me this week is I am almost done painting my living room, stair well and upstairs landing. It has been a long process. The actual painting took a few days over several weeks (as I didn't paint everyday), but choosing a color was a project in itself.  I started back in January. My original color chosen was coffee.

Coffee colors vary as those of you who drink the beverage know. There is black coffee, weaker brown coffee, milky coffee, and all the colors that milky coffee can be, depending on your ratio of coffee to milk, cream, half and half, or other creamer you add. Here's what Wikipedia says about the color coffee:

Coffee is a brownish color that is a representation of the color of a roasted coffee bean. Different types of coffee beans have different colors when roasted—the color coffee represents an average. The first recorded use of coffee as a color name in English was in 1695.

I went to Home Depot and bought a few paint samples in the coffee range, came home, and painted patches of them on a wall.

I actually liked the Oxford Street color at the top, but since my house is a post and beam, and I have wood ceilings as well as wood posts through the area, I thought there would just be too much brown. 

I also liked the canyon dusk, the bottom sample color, but when I painted a big section of the wall and looked at it for a couple of days, it just was too blah in my particular space. I have a lot of natural colors in my living room, and I wanted something a little brighter.

After the coffee shades,  I tried some light oranges, some adobe-orange-tans and even a light rust color.

Nope.

Then I went onto greens.

Good thing you can buy paint samples for 98 cents at Home Depot as I have a whole collection of colors now.

I love the color green. The original color of my room was a sage green, which has worked great, but after 20 years it was time for a change.  I actually like all the sample green colors on my wall, but I wanted something  that matched the style of my house and  items  I already had in it. 

The new color is behind the TV on the left. It is called Bay Water. The old color is behind the fish on the right. Since  it's been so long from when I painted that color, and I don't know it's  name, I'll call it sage green.

I looked up the color Bay Water on the internet. The Home Depot paint is a green tint, but other paint companies have a Bay Water color and it is more blue. I think its fun that the paint designers get to name their paint colors. I think the name Bay Water sounds more blue than green, unless the bay where the water is is in a swamp. I like this green though, whatever color you want to call it.

My new color  is not drastically different from the old color, especially in less light,  but it is different enough. It certainly freshens up the area and is a little brighter. Painting also gave me a chance to wash curtains, clean out radiators, sort through the pile of dog toys...another words, I've done some spring cleaning too.

It might be a stretch, but my drink reference this week is in my paint colors. There's coffee and (bay) water. If that doesn't work, here's a some green tea (which you can't see in this photo) in a mug that has some Bay Water as well as my old paint color sage green color on it.  

I am linking up to Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog where we meet each Tuesday with our drink related posts. 

I have one high section left to paint, over the sliding door. The hubby dug out the big ladder for me, and my plan is to paint that section one day this week. Hopefully, then we can move onto the stairs. The plan is to pull up the carpet, which is even older than my sage colored paint was, and put in some finished wood treads. That project is on the hubby's list, and he is planning on taking some vacation time once better weather is more guaranteed. 

That's about all for me. Wishing you a wonderful T day and nice week too.