Vavavooom

The hallway in our home was one of those places that bugged me. Like the word already says: it's a space you come across a dozen times, but not immediately important enough to give the highest priority when it comes to decorating. Still, it bugged me. It just needed that bit of Vavavoom...you feelin' me? So I decided to paint it. Not the whole space, 'cause I'm a major coward when it comes to painting walls in different colours (let alone a whole room in one) but just one wall to start with (and probably leave it to).

To cut things short: I hated the result at first. Because of the 80s tinted glass in the wall, our hallway is a bit dark and as the paint hadn't dried yet (I was a tiny bit hasty with my judgement about the result) it seemed the green became a bit greyish and dark, definitely not the result I had in mind.

That evening I annoyed my followers on Twitter with my doubts (luckily they reacted very sympathetic and advised me to sleep over it and Let-It-Dry-First!!), slept over it, worked a day, came home and all of a sudden the wall looked a lot better (ergo: it had dried). I love it now! To complement the lot, I painted one of my vintage West-Germany vases fluor pink (I added a primer and two layers of spray coating and it's still not entirely pink, which definitely increased my respect for professional painters) and we mounted the vintage flower chandelier. Now I love to cross this space. In fact, if it wasn't so draughty, I'd be transferring the telly there.

(When we switch the light on Cornelis appears. Cornelis de Graeff was mayor of Amsterdam somewhere in the 17th century. Design by Nicolette Brunklaus.)