And if you, unlike us, find yourself with a lazy afternoon to spare, you can have this dramatic transformation done lickity-split!.

And the other thing I learned:.2)White paint is not just white paint.

I started out spraying these little guys in a gloss white that was really kind of terrible.I didn’t think you could screw up painting pumpkins!Instead of looking all happy and creamy, they looked really stark and cold, and with the bit of orange still showing through, kind of dirty.

I went over them with my good ol’ dollar store antique white acrylic and they were perfect.Though I only clued into this after a week of trying to convince myself they were OK and if I just tied a little orange ribbon in the right way, they would be perfect.

Nope.. Why do I do this to myself?

Over fake pumpkins??If I’m being honest, right now today, it’s a little bit more of a total mess than that.

Also no pumpkins.But let’s just pretend that I took those pictures 5 minutes ago and that I do have pumpkins in there in August because I’m just a super-prepared blogger like that, K?.

Anyway.. We also have a living room in this house!It started out looking like this when we moved in:.