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So me & Drew finally have a week of no wedding, no training, no other random things, & have time to fix up our house! I have been wanting to paint ever since I moved in July 4th weekend. So, 7 weeks later, we have time to start. We like the way the two bedrooms & the bathroom were painted, & will only have to make minor adjustments, like trim arount the top in two of those rooms. The rest of the house, the living room, dining room, hallway & kitchen were soo ugly! The living room, hall & dining room are this light yellow color & the dining room & kitchen have this horrendous wall paper!! So we have a major project on our hands. We want to do the living room/hall/dining room a really pretty tan or khaki color. The dining room has a chair rail that goes around the room, so we have picked a really pretty green color that matches our curtains to use on the botton half of the room & one wall of the living room. The kitchen is still undecided, but we're thinking the same tan/khaki color with pink trim. Yes, I said pink! My fiance said I can have a pink kitchen :) We went to Lowe's & picked out two different colors to try, camel & arabian sands. Good news, they are better than yellow, bad news, we don't like either of them. So, the hunt is on for the perfect tan/khaki. We did go ahead & tape the entire living room/hall to be ready to paint in case we find a great color when we go back to Lowe's at lunch tomorrow. Wish us luck!