Our house is a funny-odd-old house. The rooms don’t seem to have enough walls. There are a lot of wide open spaces to paint, and little odd spaces to paint.

In the front of the house is the foyer. It is a room, but it isn’t a room. It is home to the staircase, and it is open on two sides. It lives right next to the living room. Which is also open on two sides. Between the foyer and the living room is the scary holiday closet. I’m not scared of holidays, the closet is just a mess and it happens to hold all of the holiday decorations. On either side of the scary closet are little walls. They don’t completely enclose the room, they are more like a half wall.

This month we grew tired of the colors in the room, so we decided to change the accent wall color.

In the foyer and the living room the accent wall was painted a deep blue-green color. I loved the color, but we just needed something new.

I got out my color-decks and poured over paint chip after paint chip. I finally spotted a color that I thought would look good in the room. It is by Sherwin Williams and it is called Alaea. It is a unique color in some light it looks almost red, in other light it looks purple, and I love it. James even likes it too.

It gave the room just a little pop of color. The painting project didn’t take too long either.