Home re-newing: Hallway

At long last I'm done with my hallway! I've only been thinking about doing it for more than six months. Things take time - and I do mean that. The renovation was actually more time-consuming than I expected. I was dead set on doing it on my own with no help form anyone. To my surprise, January has been really hectic and not as quiet as normal, which always promt me to re-new things. As such, I've been a lot more rushed to finish the hallway than I anticipated.
But enough rambling, on to the project. First some before photos:

When moving in, I think the initial vision I had of the hallway was something Italian-inspired because of the terracotta floor tiles that were already there.  I chose the wall colour "Toscana" (which is a latte-ish colour)  and the iron furniture. Problem was possibly that I never found a proper light fixture or that the hallway isn't spacious enough to get that Italian vibe.... or the simple fact that we are miles way from Italy, Anyway, it just wasn't working. 

The worst part was the lamp. I absolutely hate it. I didn't chose it, but I did allow it into the house. What the hell was I thinking!?!? Just proves that not all IKEA is a good thing!

So after a few days of intense sparkling and sanding the walls, the first thing to go was that damn lamp. And up with a shining and sparkling new light fixture. 

Unfortunately it doesn't properly come out at the picture (see pic under from the store). But it's soo pretty and it gives so much more light! I couldn't be more pleased with it.

(source: skeidar.no)

Then after another couple of days of putting masking tape all over, it was time to attack with the paint. Again, not sure how well the colour comes out in the pictures, but the colour is called "Sukkertopp" and it's a soft grey colour with a pink/purple undertone:

Then it was time to ditch the old iron furniture (which happened to still be in a very good condition so after advertising it for free, it was picked up by a very nice Finnish guy), and up with some new, white and contemporary furniture, both from Jysk:

And there we have it! Very happy with the result.Granted, the actual paint job was more work than I first thought as my walls have some sort of pattern on them, which makes them uneven. And it was really hard to get the paint into the tinsy little nooks. But hey, good work out, so...
 I also prove what I suspected, that I'm a sloppy painter. I ended up with a good deal of it on myself (thankfully I'm washable), the floor tiles, (thankfully they're sandable), and the roof (which now really needs to be painted as well, but...).

But project done! Happy days!