Paint and colors...

After touring hundreds of houses (okay maybe I'm overstating the number, but it sure felt like thousands) I had settled on a green kitchen. Just about every kitchen that I saw in green I fell in love with, there is something about an airy lighthearted color when you're cooking and prepping and cleaning...

We purchased a zillion samples, thank God we don't have to pay too much for them. About 6 different greens and other neutral colors.. and a yellow. The yellow looked so good that every person that walked on our sample wall commented on how nice it looked. Irresistible as it turned, the kitchen and craft room have been painted sunny yellow with white moulding, near the white tile counters and backsplash. We haven't finished the yellow on top of the cabinets, as we'd have to stand on the counters and don't want our little girls watching that spectacle... or we'd find them climbing there all the time!

As I had been desiring green so much, I decided to use a quarter of paint I had purchased at the Habitat for Humanity Restore (http://shfh.org/hfh) for a buck in the laundry room. It looks amazing the contrast between yellow and green. I must like that combination as my very special college plates had yellow, green and blue in them... just about the same hues.

Around May there was a fun dinner at my Mother in Law's church, one of the items in the silent auction was a bucket full of painting supplies, half in faith and half in hope we'd buy a house sometime soon we made a $20 offer for it and obtained it. Brushes, rollers and all sort of nice goodies together with a $25 gift certificate to lowes was an incredibly good way to go! So all in all, the paint must have costed us about $50 alltogether, including samples and actual paint, painter's tape and spackle.

In the living room, we wanted to go with a cafe-au-lait color, something mellow and neutral that we could pair with a hefty chocolate color in the staircase accent wall. After a few samples, I decided to mix two galons of paint, also obtained at the Restore (http://shfh.org/hfh) and came up with my own mix.. which I loved. It was a little darker than I thought we wanted, but the rooms have so much light in them that they can withstand a darker paint color. I'm done for the most part, but am hoping Tim can help me with the upper trim.
Living Room paint, including samples.. $15