Living Room -- After

I'm pretty happy with the results, and hopefully these lively colors will help cheer me up during the long, cold, and dark Michigan winter.

Here's what the living room now looks like and the fireplace.

I painted the walls a light yellow, called "candlelit dinner." I also painted the ceiling (with a student's hired help), as it had previously been the same tan cream color as the walls. It's now a shade of "vanilla ice cream." This led me to tackling the valences, going from a sage green to more of a sea green. I finally took on the fireplace, and to provide a bit of a contrast, selected a color called "hot apple spice."