paint

Just to drive Chelsea G. crazy, I'll talk about the rest of the painting first.  

We hadn't planned on having the kitchen painted, but when we realized our Kraft Mac & Cheese colored yellow totally clashed with our new colors, we switched to a lighter yellow called Rice Paper.  In the photo below you can see the lighter yellow above the cabinets with the original yellow below.  I insisted the painters not touch my stripes.  When it came to painting them over again, I wished I had.

Why?  Because I had to paint them twice!  I decided to do a darker blue to complement the lighter yellow.  This is what it looked like.  I promise it looked like I had left painter's tape up.  It was terrible.  I ended up grabbing my paint from 7 years ago & doing a thick/thin pattern.  It's not great but it's good enough.

Luckily that same blue did work for my calendar holder.  It used to be our Kraft Mac & Cheese color and hung on a Gobi Desert wall.  This is a vast improvement.  Danny & Michelle and I painted it when Dan & Kaelah were still asleep and finished it when the 2 of them went home teaching.

Some views of the kitchen looking to the staircase and to the family room.

The family room color is Bakery Box White & it is magical.  It changes color depending on the time of day or even which wall you are looking at.  It might be blue.  It might be green.  Most of the time it is greenish.  It is rather fun.

The best part of new paint in the family room is that the tile doesn't blend in with the wall color anymore.  It was almost a perfect match.  Like I said, we were sick of all the brown, so we were going for a change.

This bathroom would be super easy to paint, but I figured while I had the painters here we might as well have them paint this bathroom to match the stuff my mother bought for it an entire 4 years ago.  It is "Frost" also by Martha Stewart.  Gotta love our "criminal paint" as Dan said last year when we used it for the basement.  It replaced Raffia Cream.  So, now there is absolutely no Gobi Desert in our house and the only cream is in the laundry room and going down the stairs to the basement.  Maybe in a couple years we'll attack the bedrooms again... and then buy a new house.  lol.