Hallway Refresh - Finished

The hallway was a project I worked on while the bathroom projects were going too slowly and I needed to fix something anything. I had given the hallway some love in the past but it just wasn't working. It started an avocado green which just made everything look sickly and grimy. Then I tried to be trendy and painted it a navy blue. I gave that a good 2 year run but I could just never get into it. The blue was too dark, and I realized that blue isn't very mid century and I'm just not that into it. Sorry, dark blue. I love you in everyone else's house. So I painted the ceiling a fresh white (Behr ultra white), the walls the same white as the rest of the house (Behr painter's white).
Pretty rug from our trip last month to Marrakesh.

Flush light from Lowes, isn't it pretty? I think it looks like a Jonathan Adler light.
Frames from Target. Love those big mats.


Most of the changes were really boring. I switched out the air intake vents for fresh white ones. I took out the bulky smoke and CO2 detectors and switched in a pretty Nest one. Except it keeps giving me false smoke alarms which is going to cause a heart attack. I also patched and painted the trim, that was really tedious but looks so much better.

Here is a terrible before picture from a different angle, sorry. This is actually the main reason we did the hallway refresh, is because I wanted to take out that bulky swamp cooler vent since we took out the swamp cooler when we put the new roof on 2 years ago. And you can see how bad all those detectors and doorbells look. Now everything is gone except the doorbell and one detector on the ceiling. And just look how dark blue that dark blue is.