Wide Open Spaces

"Who doesn't know what I'm talking about..."

Here is what is now our TV/den. This picture was taken by the realtor for the previous owners.  When we painted in here I thought I would like the area above the windows to be open, so we removed the shelf and the curtain. 

Well...like most everything else, as far as decorating goes in this house, I was wrong.

I did not like the "negative space", as BJ called it, above the windows.

So yesterday, I made an attempt to correct my mistake. Seven hours of painting later...

 It went from this:

To this:

Before:

And after:

 

They look a little darker in the pic than what they really are although one did turn out slighter darker than the other.  I will make an attempt to lighten the darker one up today so the will match.  

On a completely different note, we had a storm to blow through our area last night.  It was here and gone in a matter of seconds.  Our neighbor looked pretty sad, but thankfully we did not have any damage to our house. Areas north of us were devastated.