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The Raven Room

4/10/2011

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This is our den, affectionately known as The Raven Room.  When you have a painting as beautiful as this, it needs a bold background to make it pop.  In the old house, we used Behr's Mood Indigo, but it looked a little dark in the new house since we get less natural light, so I tweaked it just a bit to Behr's Sausilito Port. 
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The painting is called Ravens in the Snow, by Colorado artist Anthony Grant.  The story of how we got this painting is kind of funny.  Kevin did some work on Tony's website and one day when Kevin was over at his house, he saw this painting and fell in love with it.  It was not one of Tony's favorites, so he agreed to give it to Kevin as payment for his work.  A couple months later, Tony opened a new gallery in Louisville and this was one of the paintings he had on display.  Apparently it was the hit of the show and he had multiple offers to buy it, but he had to tell them it was already taken.  It was also featured in the Boulder Weekly in a newspaper article about his gallery.  He ended up doing several more similar to it since there was so much interest, but we think ours is the best.

There's more work to be done in this room.  I want to find white lamp shades, and I am planning on painting the other walls a lighter blue color.  I thought I had it all decided, and bought a gallon of the paint, but it looks a little on the purple side, so I'm thinking about trying to tweak it.
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