War of the Paint Colors

Because it's cold in New England for much of the year, when we moved into this place, we painted our walls golden yellow throughout the house. It sort of glows, even in winter light, and the paint color is even called "summer heat."

Except in the boys room: I conceded to painting their walls lime green.

In August, however, we did a big "room swap" at our place so that the boys could each have their own rooms. Casey now has the former office, Beau has the room Britt and I used to have, and Britt and I have the boys' former room.

We weren't even done swapping furniture when the kids were asking if they could paint their rooms new colors. I'm not so keen on that, but they've kept at it -- especially Beau who wants blue walls. If he could have it his way: dark blue.

I'm not convinced. Beau, however, is not deterred. I came home one night to find him making a cardboard mock-up of what his room would look like with blue walls. (I guess he thought I couldn't picture it??)



I give him points for trying.

But for now, I've established that, except for painting the lime green walls in the room that Britt and I now have, there will be no bedroom painting before next spring. (I'm determined that by February, they'll see the beauty of the glowing, sunny yellow walls during the dark and bitter winter.)