Paint

The long ago toilet leak fix up project is finally being finished. A new contractor showed up this morning and my kitchen is being painted as I type. I promise to post pictures at some point. Right now, I’m just trying to catch my breath.

The first contractor that came out told us that he would paint the kitchen and living room because it is all one room. I thought that was excessive but willing to let him do it since he seemed so insistent on it. This guy was only going to paint the little hall area coming into the kitchen from the garage because that’s all that was messed up. I was a little bummed. He could tell. I wasn’t angry, just disappointed that I had been offered the moon originally and was now being handed a nightlight. He then told me that he’s willing to do it since I had to wait so long on getting this job done. I took him up on it. So the entire kitchen, but not the living room is being painted.

I have spent my morning moving all the clutter off the tops of the cabinets and all the clutter on my counters into the dining room table. They moved the chairs, and blinds for me. We had pizza for lunch yesterday so I gave the boys cold pizza for lunch today, which they loved, and have put them down for their naps already.

I had so many thoughts on paint color. So many bright and lovely things I could choose to do. But in the end I remained true to my conservative ways and a neutral taupe is going up. I may end up painting the entire house this same color. Well, not the entire house, but the open areas. I haven’t talked to Kris about it yet, but I’ve been thinking about wall-paper in the dining room. It has a strip of chair-rail and I could just put paper on the top or the bottom and paint the rest. I think that could be fun.

So…yeah…congratulations to me. I’m getting paint in my kitchen.