i just got the estimate today about the pink bathroom. to have the tub refinished and glazed white along with the surrounding pink tile will be $650. it's not as much as i thought it would be, so it's really worth considering. on the other hand, camryn is having a fit about getting rid of all the pink- "MOM!!! IT'S AN ANTIQUE!!" boy, she really bought into it when i was trying to sell it and convince myself that we should save the pink bathroom. well now that i have come to my senses(pink just really isn't going to work for me...i have to be true to myself and this is my house. well, mine and jay's but i don't think he'll mind if the bathroom is no longer pink) she is still fighting to keep the pink. once i get it the way i want it, she'll be a fan i'm sure.
i have something to this effect in mind...
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light and airy is what i like. do you see a pattern with these bathrooms?YES!! wainscoting!! love it!!!
instead of baseboard, we have tile bordering the floor. i mentioned that i wanted baseboard and found out that my husband thinks there should be tile in the bathroom, not wood. i disagree. wood works too!!!
i painted my kitchen. i painted it with a cool color.
i really do love silver sage. i just don't love it in my kitchen. it's been up for a couple of weeks so i have tried to get used to it, but it's just not working. you can't tell in the above photo, but it is totally blue during the day, and green at night.
i have to repaint the kitchen.
i was also going to sand and paint the cabinets but jay is now doing that part because there is a chance that they were painted with paint that had lead in it and it's not a good idea to sand. we were researching liquid deglossers and found that the fumes are really strong so jay will handle it all when track is over. i guess that's june sometime. in the meantime...
i have to repaint the kitchen.
how bad is my luck? now that i have decided to go with a warm yellow, I CAN'T FIND THE RIGHT YELLOW!!!!
there is like a katrillion different yellows out there! i have narrowed it down to a golden color and i thought behr's warm muffin would do the trick- it's a beautiful golden yellow
photos from disboards
i love that color! i had that color in my old house as an accent wall in my family room. you can kinda see it here:
well, of course my kitchen is cursed! warm muffin is too dark!!!
so after sampling a few more things that didn't work, i had a thought. restoration hardware's butter is really warm and creamy and lighter than warm muffin...
so back to restoration i went. no butter. not even a paint chip to get matched. only a gallon was available and there was no way i was going to pay $40 for a can of paint i wasn't sure about. besides that, any restoration paint i am sure about will be color matched somewhere else because rh paint is streaky and doesn't cover well. so, i went with the next color, that is a little darker. saffron.
you can't tell here, but this paint is exactly the same color as warm muffin!!!
WHY ME?!!!!
excuse me while i go curl up in a fetal position in a corner and suck my thumb.
i have been hearing wonderful things bout this color from restoration hardware
but it's $40 a gallon. yipes! so i figure what the hey and go to restoration hardware and get a sample for $3.95.
oh boy do i love this color!!! it's a light green, but looks bluish gray- it's weird, but i love it! i was sure i had it folks- THE color!!! ok, you know it's coming...
BUTit's been on my wall for a few days now and i feel it is too cold for my kitchen. i was thinking that there is enough brick and red tile to make it warmer, but when i see it, i see a kitchen with state of the art appliances, stainless steel everywhere and a cold feeling. i am drawn to warm rooms and i want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen so i need warm, cozy and inviting. i want a color that makes me feel like i don't want to leave. silver sage says, this kitchen is a nice place to visit, but i'd rather be somewhere else.
does that make sense? am i putting too much feeling into painting this kitchen? i know my husband is like just pick a color already!!!
i just don't want to pick a color i am going to regret because i will be really upset if that happens.
ugh!!!!!
I may not get the kitchen done before the end of march after all. i still am colorless!!! ben moore STILL did not have the paint sample of dried parsley so i had to take the paint chip to home depot and have them color match a sample for me. fortunately, their samples are on sale for $2.94 right now. i got home, put it on the wall and bleh. just bleh. i don't hate it, but i don't love it. i am looking for love right now.
jay looked at all of the paint chips on the kitchen counter yesterday and just shook his head and told me i am obsessed. he's right about that. yesterday morning i had a dream that i was in someone's house with the perfect blue in their kitchen and i loved it. what's odd about that is that i said i didn't want a blue kitchen, but it looked fabulous on the wall and i HAD to know the color! i asked this woman what the color was and just as she was about to tell me- i woke up! i woke up frustrated that i didn't get the name of the color, but then had to laugh at myself because really. was she gonna say a color in my dream and then in reality i would miraculously find this color in a paint store somewhere?!
yeah, i am pretty obsessed.
i'm out. seriously i cannot do this color thing.
so here we go. color number three in the past week. pottery barn/benjamin moore nantucket breeze.
this swatch on my computer looks like it has warm undertones. trust me. it does not! it is actually quite cool, and light. it would definitely light up a room! look at the photo from pottery barn below:
this is exactly how it looks on my wall. it's a pretty color, but just too bright and cold for my kitchen. can i please just catch a break?!!
i am going to try one more thing before i go totally mad. nantucket breeze is bm number 521. the next darkest shade is dried parsley number 522. so i will try that, even though they look almost identical. i cannot let that detour me!
tell me what you think-
nantucket breeze 521
dried parsley 522
can you see the slight difference?
it's the greenish gray i was looking for but it's a tad dark on my walls. there is not a lot of light in my kitchen and i don't want to make it any darker. but it is a pretty color. i thought for sure this would be a hit because look at it here. it's so light and airy, right?
i know i said i didn't want a blue kitchen, but i am seriously drawn to this color called palladium blue. it looks like a pale smokey bluish gray, but i know as soon as i put it up on the wall it'll be straight blue.
look at my wall already- it's gonna be a rainbow room here in a minute!
what do you think? i need something to compliment the brick and tile in the last post. i'm starting to think maybe a light, creamy, yellow color, but yellow is like the "go to" color. isn't it?
not feeling very well today so i'm resting and tooling around on the computer and thought i would make another post! you can bet i am hitting the save button every so often this time!
here is my kitchen. i am going to paint it, but i can't decide on a color.
i love color on walls. i am finding though, as much as i love color, i am also afraid of it. i am afraid of choosing a color and not being happy with it. i've done it before. so sure i would like a certain off white color, i bought a couple gallons of it, only to get it up on my wall and hate it because it looked too yellow instead of off white. on the other hand, i have chosen colors on my own that i love (in a particular space). like dunn edward's almond latte.
image from apartment therapy.
i loved that color so much that i put it in our dining area and in the living room at the old house. when we moved to the new house i knew i wanted it in the dining area again, so without even testing it i bought a gallon and started painting. it made me sick. i could not stand the way it looked on the dining room wall. instead of the rich warm color i fell in love with, it was milky and too light. but i wasn't going to give up on it just yet (i had a gallon of that mess, afterall!). i still had not decided on a master bedroom color so i thought i would give it a try and EUREKA! it's the perfect color for my bedroom!
i love seeing color in someone else's home too, because if i like it, i already know the name of it, and i can visualize it on my walls. sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. just because a color looks good on someone else's walls doesn't mean it will look good on mine. i should know that from the almond latte experience, right?!
that said, i was kinda disappointed when i sampled a benjamin moore/pottery barn color called wedgewood gray. after seeing it in the pottery barn catalogs and on karla's blog i loved the look.
it's a bluish gray color(more blue than gray)(i wish there were a greenish gray color) that i thought would be calming for my kitchen yet pop a little because of the contrast of the brick wall and red tile on the countertops.
image from it's the little things that make a house a home. i love it on her walls! if you have a moment, scroll around and take a tour of her home!
unfortunately, when i sampled it on my wall in the eating area, i was crushed. in darker areas, it was just what i wanted. in lighter areas it was definitely blue. i don't want a blue kitchen. i waited, just like the guy at the paint store said. let it dry and added another coat. still very blue. i even tried to talk myself into thinking the color wasn't so bad, that i could get used to it. then i walked back into the kitchen and thought, "ew! a blue kitchen!" not that blue kitcchens aren't nice, i like blue kitchens...i just don't think it will go in mine. so i resigned and decided it would be a nice laundry room color. sampled it in there and the same thing happened; loved it on part of the room, hated it in another part. oh well, it's just not meant to be, i guess. it should not be this hard to pick a color, but i want a color that is going to make me feel good every time i walk into that room and make me glad i painted it that color!
so i guess i am back on my quest for the perfect color because i know it's out there!
next up- cabinets: white, black? glass doors or open shelving? decisions, decisions!!
ok i have to rant about the house again.
it's true what they say, "everything old is new again". so when we decided to buy this house i thought i could get into the whole 1950's ranch home style and run with the retro theme because the house has that character about it. it is soooo 1950's it's not even funny. i was thinking that i could even go with 1950's furniture and shag carpets. ikea knows how to take you back...
so does pottery barn...
well, now i feel like i am being pulled in two directions. all of the retro features about the house seem to be the things i want to get rid of the most. the wood paneling in the living and dining room had to go-it just made the whole area too dark and i hate dark rooms. the original retro oven that was in the kitchen...
it actually still worked! i'm sure with some maintenance we could have been able to use it, but i had to let it go. i just couldn't keep it. since we have replaced it with a stainless steel one, and we already had the stainless steel fridge, we have to keep going with all stainless appliances. we purchased a stainless microwave and next on my list is to replace the electronic stovetop and hood with stainless.
the kitchen is pretty dark,(and this was around noon! waiting for jay to install a solar tube so i can have a brighter kitchen) but you can still see the cooktop and the scalloped hood above it. these are the original cabinets too. i like the retro look of them but they are rickety and creaky, they aren't installed properly, the drawers don't move in and out easily, and i just think we should replace them. i keep thinking i could probably live with them if i just paint them...i don't know.
i love the brick wall in my kitchen, but other side of it is the living room wall. there's a fireplace on one side and then the rest of it is just brick wall and while i love the look of it, it's wasted space to me because i can't use it like it were a regular wall because the hearth goes all the way across the length of the wall. take a look at these
i guess it was common back then to have entire walls of brick! i just don't know what to do with mine, though. hang a flat screen tv? make a mantel or a ledge going all the way across for photos? we do need a place to hang our stockings at christmas. thoughts?
then there's the pink bathroom. i just found out that there is a site called save the pink bathrooms. now that i've browsed the site, i feel a little guilty about wanting to get rid of all the pink. we had a guy come over last week from re-bath to quote us on doing the pink tub and matching tile on the wall and ceiling. it was not a number we wanted to hear and so we won't be covering it up that way. another thing we were thinking of was reglazing and changing the color to white, but after seeing that stpb site i am wondering if we should preserve the pink! crazy, huh?
10 facts about pink bathrooms.
it's a work in progress. just deciding which way to go is hard.
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