i think it looks gorgeous and carnival funhouse modern is pretty chic, but my head aches just thinking about all that high-gloss beige. seriously, the beige ceilings have been weighing on me for a week, baffling my mind.

my sympathies on the headache.

We're painting too... have you asked about the high gloss at the paint store... I'm sure you have. But I painted our kitchen, which had very glossy, very bright orange oil paint on the walls (well some of them, others were salmon pink, yellow and a nice sage green) and we didn't sand at all. Just primed it with a very high stick primer. No problems two or three years later...

By the way, what a lovely apartment! And judging from the tree outside the window, a nice neighbourhood!

We're painting too... have you asked about the high gloss at the paint store... I'm sure you have. But I painted our kitchen, which had very glossy, very bright orange oil paint on the walls (well some of them, others were salmon pink, yellow and a nice sage green) and we didn't sand at all. Just primed it with a very high stick primer. No problems two or three years later...

By the way, what a lovely apartment! And judging from the tree outside the window, a nice neighbourhood!

I love color! We have color in every room. The hallway is the only neutral.

My living room looks much like that yellow and butts up to the blue kitchen. The corner where they meet often looks green.

I don't know what to say about the cabinets. That seems like so much work. Could you put contact paper over them for a quicker solution?

What a lovely space you have for you and your girl. I wish you much peace there.

I love yellow walls, although I'm a bit too chicken to do them in my house. I think I need to just suck it up and put some brighter paint on the walls. Right now, they're all eggshell. It's yawn-o-rrific.

I love the colour combination. It looks like sherbet.

D40? You got a D40? That's what I want! Really, really baaaaaaaaaaad.

I have that same stepstool, I think I mentioned that before...

I love the color! Who cares what designers say. I would like to do colors like yours in my house, but almost everything we own was handed down from my husband's grandparents (really, almost every stick of furniture and every painting) & that dictates my choices.

Can we see some pictures of Frances taken with that camera? Even if it's the back of her head : )

Your'e my hero! I'm so impressed with all of your work. I wouldnt' even know where to begin with all that! Good on ya! ;-)

New D40, huh? Also very impressive! :)

I love it! So cheery!

And I love that you got yourself a new camera too...yaaaay! :D

Cinnamon gurl, it really is. It'll be even nicer to when the beige is put in its place.

You know, the more I think about that ceiling, the more I think I need to find some other solution than sanding the damned thing. Because. Ow.

I have a girlfriend who wallpapered her ceiling. You know those white ones you can get, and then paint them? You could put a fairly plain one up and then paint it if you want, or not... Just a suggestion!

I've been (perhaps wrongly?) assuming that this was something you "needed" to do yourself. Is this true, or is there some way I could help? I mean this, so please tell me if there is anything I can do!

Reading about painting is quite different from watching it dry. It seems like such hard work, and I admire the way you're going about it on your own. I like the idea of painting, but I fear it would lead to agony if I later noticed lines every which way. I wanted to put up a wall border, but I don't know whether it's permanent (I'm renting), and there's no way I can hang it parallel to the wall edges. When I draw parallel lines, they are not parallel to the paper edges.

Is the yellow the color to the left of the window? If so, and if the green is the middle color, the green looks yellow, but complements the floor and makes it a beautiful space.

Can you wash the rest of the glossy paint, or was there something particular about the windowsill?

Congratulation on beating back the beige!

Do not wallpaper over gloss paint in a room where there might be steam. I did that -- in the bathroom. The paper one day said something like 'scloop' and fell off. Ew.
If you repaint in gloss, I think you might be able to wash it with TSP and just paint. Otherwise, you need a special primer. I got some at RONA, from a helpful person.
And what you have got done looks so, so cheerful and warm and welcoming.

I sympathize with the achy head Andrea. I love your colour choices!! What a wonderful home you are creating for you and Frances.

Remember the days of punched tin ceilings? Aren't there easy-to-install facsimiles of that look that simply adhere to the ceiling? I seem to remember a designer show that had something like that, and they were white (bonus!) rather than silver.