I have always heard that if you paint your dining room walls red, then guests will want to eat more and talk more.
I am not painting our dining room walls red. My cooking can stand on its own legs now and our family does not need any encouragement to talk longer.
No, I am painting the walls orange!
Well, everything above the chair rail is going orange and everything below the chair rail is yellow with orange stenciling.
Every time I stencil I fall in love with the process all over again. This stencil is from an Etsy store called Royal Design Stencils.
Now Dan was a little surprised by my choice in color. He even tried talking me into only painting one wall orange, but I couldn’t keep such a bright, fun color to just one wall. He’s lucky I am keeping it to the dining room. I could have painted our bedroom orange.
Oh, now there is an idea!
Back to the dining room.
This is the never ending paint project. According to my old blog posts, I started painting the walls below the chair rail in May 2012. Hopefully, I will finish painting above the chair rail by May 2014. I think it would say something bad about my character if I let the project drag on longer than 2 years.
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Its gorgeous! Orange is a very warm and welcoming color. You did a great job. (and I loved to stencil, too)