Well, for one thing, every time we walk into the kitchen the first things we utter are either; "Minty fresh!", or "This makes me crave an Andes Mint!" and even, "I could really go for a bowl of Baskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream!"
Funny...with a colour called "Garden Room" I was hoping not to be reminded of candy, ice cream, and mouthwash every bloody time I walked into my kitchen! If Pepto Bismal ever comes out with a mint flavour, it's going to be the same exact colour as my kitchen walls!
To give you a more accurate idea of just how bright green the walls are, I pinched this photo from some poor sod online who used Behr's "Paint Your Place" colour tool to see if this was the right colour for his kitchen. Keep in mind, my kitchen cabinets are oak and I have fake wood laminate counter tops -- speaking of which, we have no idea what shade of granite they're going to be at this point, especially now that I have to coordinate with minty fresh walls. Don't even get me started on that though, because it just might start another argument between the hubby and I about what's going to look "daft" in the kitchen and what isn't. Oiy!I told him I thought maybe we needed a real light counter top and...oh that's right, I wasn't going to get started.
Yep, that's pretty much the exact colour of my kitchen walls at this point. Ours might be a touch darker but not a lot.
I don't know about you, but when I think of "Garden Room" I think of deeper greens, ferns and plant life, slightly smokey greens and not candy!
I'm half tempted to get a gallon of dark brown paint and go around painting chocolate chips on the wall.
The hubby has asked me to postpone nervous breakdown number 49 until I've had a chance to get the trim, borders, side cabinet and regular cabinets painted white. And then he says I might want to hold off even longer until the new windows and french doors are installed this summer because it will change the look of everything. Of course he's the brave soul that dares to utter one-liners such as; "I bet our neighbours are going to be green with envy when they see the kitchen!" Hardy har har!
I was trying to go for a beach cottage feel with cooler garden colours and I have undoubtedly ended up with something that looks like the interior of an ice cream shoppe.
Megawatt even said to go ahead and drag out all the accent colours I've been wanting to use and get my beach stuff all over the place; shells, lighthouses, dune grass, etc., but I'm just not feelin' it.
Oh well. I will endeavor to be a good girl and get on with painting everything else. Actually, I rather enjoy the act of painting itself. Sure, every muscle in my body is crying out in agony right now, and I have green paint in places that make me resemble Shrek, but there's something kind of Zen about it, as hokey as that sounds. In the meantime, whilst the hubby is out getting me some mint chocolate chip ice cream (I can't help it, for some strange reason I've been craving it all day!), I thought I'd share a little of the crazy journey to "green" with you, from this past weekend.
Did I mention we even went out and bought a *gasp* power sander? Oh yeah I did...because I'm still itching from all the damn dust it created. But the hubby had fun with it. Here's a shot of the kitchen from the day we closed on the house, back in July of '07, so you kind of get an idea of what we were dealing with.
And this is the God-awful wall border we have been struggling with for the better part of 8 months now.
It was on about 2/3 of the kitchen walls. Little did we know it wasn't the only border on the wall. Back in March when I first tackled it, I bought every single product on the market to try and get it off, and tried every home remedy suggested on DIY forums (OMG, some of those forums can be scary! Men with hammers, band-saws and nail guns, oh my!), and NOTHING worked!
It just made a huge mess!
And then we discovered that the ugly Grandma border was covering yet another border...
Whomever the moron was that put the ugly Grandma border up didn't want to bother with removing the other border and just sealed over it, and then applied the new border. Perhaps he knew what a bitch it was to get that stuff off! Either way, it's been the bane of my existence for quite some time.
Enter the Brit with a power sander! Yes, Tim and Jill, Jim and Jacquie -- I offer you photographic evidence that your brother [brother-in-law] was indeed using a power tool!
In case you're wondering what dearest's tee says; "My imaginery friend think you have serious mental problems!" He's got about 20 tees with goofy stuff like that on them.
The power sander created a mess unlike nothing I've ever dealt with before, so we took Linda, from Fat Cat Crochet's idea about using a shower curtain liner to block things off, and wow did it do the trick!
Voila! After having a go at the border with the power sander...
Toss a little primer on the wall...
On with the painting. I slapped some of the new colour on the wall on top of the first colour we initially chose, "celery bunch"...I wasn't too sure about it.
Oh well, might as well finish the job and see how it comes out. Megawatt was able to scale the counters in order to get to all the places the hubby and I didn't dare try to reach...
And even some of the lower walls...
The Little Imp was not going to be left out of the action either! The family that paints together...errr, the family that paints together, um - what the hell do they say about the family that paints together anyhow? They get on each other's nerves together?
Go ahead and say it..."Oh my God that sure is PASTEL GREEN!" Cause that's sure as hell what I'm thinking!
