We have had a few opportunities to explore our new town a little more, including eating at the one "fancy" restaurant in town last night (delicious and not that fancy) and finding an absolutely adorable little local produce/garden store. They have locally raised meats, which we love:
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| Yup...all local. |
After getting the cabinets painted, I needed something a little more exciting than painting white...over white...over more white. So I treated myself and tried out the kitchen wall paint we picked out. We haven't done the main wall yet, but here's a little before and after of the cabinets and the strip above the sink:
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| Before: primed and ready to paint |
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| Solaria by Sherwin-Williams |
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| After! |
I have to say that I LOVE how the color carries over to the inside of the cabinets that we're going to leave open. The jury is still out for me on this color, though. The actual color turned out to be a way more intense yellow than it looked on the paint chip. However, the only light we have in the kitchen currently is a fluorescent, and that's making everything look awful. We're going to be changing that out as soon as we can, so I'll reserve my judgment until then. In the meantime, I'll do a second coat later this week--I think that will also help, as the old ugly teal is STILL showing through the paint a little even after two coats of primer and one coat of the yellow.
And it looks awful with the forest green counters. We've pretty much trashed those with all of the painting (the kitchen has been our main paint hub for the last few weeks), so they'll be getting swapped out ASAP.
Now, just priming and painting a room seems almost easy. So much that we've been working on two rooms at once. First, priming the living room:
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| Before, with ugly purple-y taupe walls (this picture doesn't do their ugliness justice) |
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| Primed! |
The best part, though, is getting to finally put some of the colors on the walls. I'll have to do another blog post sometime about the color palette Sean and I chose and how we went about choosing the colors we did. Unfortunately these iPhone pictures don't really do the colors justice, since they're not totally accurate. I will take good pictures with the good Canon SLR later so I can post more accurate "after" shots. In the meantime, here's a tease of our bedroom:
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| A reminder of what it looked like "before"... |
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| ...sans wallpaper... |
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| ...getting primed (this is Sean's "meerkat caught in headlights" look)... |
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| ...and ready for paint! |
Remember how I sort of half-joked that we liked the bare plaster walls so much that we were going to leave it that way? Well, we almost did...here's the color we chose:
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| Versatile Gray by Sherwin-Williams |
"Gray" is a bit of a misnomer because it has enough brown in it that it's much more of a taupe than a straight-out gray. But it doesn't have that awful purple undertone like our living room formerly did. I panicked a little when we first opened the can, because it looked much, much lighter in the can...and when we started putting it on the walls...but once it dried, it was perfect and absolutely gorgeous.
I shouldn't even post this photo because it really doesn't do the color justice, but here it is as a tease and I'll post a better photo later:
It's a very soothing, calm, restful color. We wanted to do something neutral so that we can change out the color scheme of our bedroom easily with the bed linens and accessories. I think this will look really fabulous with our current sheets and furniture, which look something like this:
Now the scary part: the movers come on Monday, so we are in the home stretch before all of our stuff gets dumped into the house. We're taking a day today to finish packing, and then our goal is to get the second coat on the bedroom and the two coats in the living room done before moving day. We've been working pretty quickly, so fingers crossed.
It would go a lot more quickly if Brody would get off his lazy butt and help us, but all he does is this:
Silly dog.
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