A Splash of Paint

Things are moving right along in the kitchen department. I finally have some progress to show at least!

There was a time when our kitchen walls were painted like this. A simple light beige color.

Awhile ago I was reading in an interior decorating magazine about painting your house. The advice when choosing paint was: "Be brave, not beige". The magazine was trying to encourage its readers to be bold when choosing colors for your house. Bright, fun colors to brighten up a room, not boring beige colors that won't stand out or show personality. I've had that in the back of my mind when thinking about decorating our house, and most recently our kitchen. Well, about 2 months ago when we started this project we went to the store and picked out some paint (this was before our decision to tear out the cabinets). I decided I wanted a mustard-yellow color for my walls.

To give you an idea of what I was thinking:

Well this what it turned out looking like:

It turned out SCHOOL BUS ORANGE. It was hideous. So much for bravery. (and if your're in the market for orange paint I have a full can waiting for you for free!)

So we went back to Lowe's and decided to go in a different direction and got this color:

This time we actually painted the whole kitchen, not just 1/2 a wall. You might think its a lot like the original but its actually much darker. I thought my walls looked like chocolate pudding. I was disappointed once again. (ditto on free chocolate paint!)

Now lets fast forward to the next chain of events with our walls.

And here they are finished!

Yes, call me crazy, but for paint color I went back to the original! It just so happened to go perfectly with my new countertops and cabinets we picked out.

You'll notice the bottom isn't painted, thats because the cabinets are going to cover it up.

I know it doesn't look like much, but progress is being made! Mike is working on the kitchen every spare minute of every day. He cleared the floors down to the bare bottom, and we hope to tile this weekend!