Living Room and Dining Room: "Before and After" and some really yellow paint

Everyone has been asking for updated pictures so here they are! We have the living room complete and are almost done with the dining room... we need to buy a different color paint for the accent wall because it did not turn out at all!

Here is the living room. Above is what it looked like "Before." The walls were a dirty beige color and the trim was a reddish-brownish-mauve. Here is the after, which looks so much prettier!

The walls make the room so much brighter now!

Next we have the dining room. Here was the "Before." The wainscoting was all wood and dirty and the color was super dark. I sadly don't have much of an after because we are repainting the yellow. It was WAY too yellow, but look at the green! It turned out magnificent!

The green turned out so beautiful! It is totally what I wanted it to be!


The yellow on the other hand turned out awful. It looks like sunshine threw up all over my accent wall. It is going to be changed to a much lighter, neutral cream. The green is too amazing to have to share its glory with another bright color. I will be painting it tomorrow. Hopefully it will turn out better the second time around! It is really too bad that paint is so expensive! Maybe we will find a way to use the yellow paint somewhere else... perhaps the art shed?

And because I can't describe how happy I am about my green wall, I have a picture that sums it all up (Note that my shirt is the same color as the yellow wall... you think I would have realized that sooner and stopped myself before the yellow got out of control!):