Painting kitchens

We built our house....well, it will be 5 years ago on tax day they started to dig the hole. The next day it started to rain, and rain, and it rained until mid June. I had started telling people that we started out to build a house, but like the idea of an inground pool better. Butch and I painted all the interiors of the house on Thanksgiving weekend and the weekend after that. Lowe's thought they hit the jackpot when we went in and bought like 10 gallons of paint. Of course, a couple of the colors were not what we had exactly thought they would be. That is how we have a family bathroom that is the color of cotton candy. Only problem, it was supposed to be a coral color. We only forgot to get paint for one room. It wasn't like we'd never be back to Lowe's or anything. Hell, we knew the people in the different depts by name. So anyway, the color Butch picked out for the kitchen was supposed to be "Dusty Rose" and it was...but it was a lot of color in a fairly big room.

Making another apperance is the lovely V and the wine man R. This was taken just before Christmas as you can see the tree peeping around the corner of the breezeway.

But this was the "dusty rose" color that we painted the kitchen. For some reason everyone assumed that I had picked out this color. They couldn't believe I would pick pink for my kitchen. Didn't take long for me to set them straight on who picked the color.

Do you see the corner just over Butchs' head? Well that small white cabinet was just not cutting it. We wanted to get a hutch for that corner but the problem we had was that between the French doors and the wall it is only 15". Most hutches are 18". Figures. So we have ordered one that the Amish are making for us. It is supposed to be finished around tax day. (again with april 15th) So "we" decided that it would be a great time to go ahead and paint the kitchen.

After much nashing of teeth we decided to go with a buttercream yellow. It is called Lotus Blossom. Well, everyone thought it was too light of a color and got me doubting the choice. So when we get to Lowe's, Butch starts with looking at colors again and talks me into getting something that is more yellow. So we give the guy the new color and he makes it up for us and off we go. Until this weekend when we started to paint. (see, sooner or later I will get to the point) I look into the paint can and it is not very yellow. I looked at the can and the dumas in Lowe's has actually given us Lotus Blossom instead of the more yellow color. We never even gave him that paint chip. He only had the new one we had picked out. Guess it was just supposed to be. So it is Sunday night, my neck is sore from the ceiling painting, and Butch is snoring from the living room while Hank Hill rambles on.

Oh, and we're not done. We didn't think that we needed to put kiltz on the walls to get rid of the pink. But the pink is not done with us yet. oh, no. It's not leaving without a fight. We ran out of paint. Where we got a second coat on the wall........it's not enough, the pink is fighting back.

Okay, this is turning into a book that I will have to finish next time. I need some Rum and Motrin. Don't look at me like that-you know I ramble.....