the story of the oasis

For those of you who don't know the story of how I got a purple living room, here it is....Before I bought this house in May '06 I had been looking for 2-family houses. Thought the idea of somebody else paying my mortgage sounded like a good one. Anyway, one day I went to an open house of a 2-family that was PERFECT for me. It had been re-done with a small apartment on part of the 2nd floor. So this house was my first case of "house crush" and I promptly put in a bid to purchase it. After what seemed like an eternity (which, in reality was really only a couple days) alas it was sold to another.

After the wailing and cursing subsided I came to the realization that it wasn't so much the house that I loved but the purple livingroom wall color with the bright white base/molding/trim. Oh, you silly, silly girl. Who buys a house for the living room paint color? So the quest for the perfect color began. It is Behr Enchanted Evening...