Bookshelf Makeover

The first week we moved in my mom and I attacked the red dining room.  The color I chose was the same one I'd used in our living room at Burton Woods.  Man I miss that natural light from that house.

But when we'd finished painting the dining room at Goodwood, I was extremely disappointed with the color.  It wasn't the same and I was convinced they'd mixed the color wrong.  

Mike wanted to repaint it a different color but given the state of the rest of the house, it was on the bottom of the to-do list.  Near the top however, was doing something to those book shelves.  A couple of weekends ago Lily and I were laying in the living room (still completely unfurnished) complaining that we were bored.  We'd just eaten dinner and had been cooped up inside all day due to gloomy weather.  Mike suggested we stop being lazy and paint the bookshelves.  At first I laughed at him but then I got motivated - why not paint the picture window too?  So we hopped in the car and drove to an antique store in Lowell that carries the Annie Sloan chalk paint and set out to work.  My "quick" Saturday evening project finally wrapped up a week later after deciding I wanted to do something crazy (Mike's words) and line the back with a fun fabric print.  

The white paint on the window has taken the yellow tint out of the room and the blue is finally the blue I remembered.  Now for a new light fixture and this room is COMPLETE!