I had long contemplated a terra cotta color, but then made a last minute switch to green. HULK SMASH!
So I had the paint for awhile, and then decided one day to just go ahead and do it. And you know what? I'm an idiot. I don't know if you can get a feel for it, but this picture is taken from the top of the stairs down to the back door. The ceiling is as high as it is upstairs in the house, which is pretty stinking high when you are by the back door and trying to reach up to the ceiling. So there was like a 3.5 foot swath that I couldn't get.
Eventually, after trying out several precarious positions with several different rickety 50 year old ladders from the garage, I was able to pretty much get the top part painted, but it was done haphazardly and there's some green on the cruddy ceiling which I have to touch up with some white, methinks. Which I'll do. At some point. Or I'll just claim that it adds to the charm.
Next phase of the project is doing a picture collage on the big wall - I have a bunch of pictures from my mom and aunt growing up in this house in the 40s and 50s that I want to enlarge and hang. The rough part is I don't want huge pictures, but will it look dumb if they are small (4x6 or 5x7)? I guess time will tell.
Couldn't get the pictures from the cell phone, so here's a general idea picture from the top of the back stairs..
