So today I thought I'd show you the view from my front porch AFTER I boldly painted my kitchen an orange-pink color and cabinets grey and white for balance. You see, what happened was: in the summer my DH replaced our main entry door. In doing this it left an unfinished interior frame. So for the past six months it remained unfinished, but barely noticeable due to the fact that the unfinished portion was the same color as EVERYTHING in this room....brown. Now, don't get me wrong, I love the color brown but honestly, in this room it was overdone...ceiling - brown, walls - brown, floor - brown, cupboards - brown. You get the idea. So after I painted the walls orange-pink the unfinished door frame stood out like a sore thumb! I said nothing, I had too much painting to do, HA! Next thing I know, he enters the house with all the materials necessary to build the frame and states very matter of factly "This weekend I'm gonna finish that door frame.....now that you've painted the walls .... it really looks like crap!" It took everything in me not to laugh!
So I got my walls painted (took 3 coats, sheesh) all of the cupboards taken down (the doors), painted and treated them to some updated hardware, and painted all the trim and ended up with a wonderfully inspirational place to create art, food and memories! I find it intriguing though that the new color of the room has got me
painting vegetables (example above) and wanting the room to smell of citrus, not sure if it's the fresh paint, the color, the light or a combination of all 3 but I do like the feeling I get when I walk in there. It's hard to be angry or sad in this room now! General consensus is that family and friends don't generally like the color but I do, and I love my new place to paint! :)
