The first floor is almost done. Almost.

Still not a lot of work going on here. We FINALLY put color on the walls in the laundry room and half bath downstairs. The bathroom shouldn't take too long to finish; the minimal amount of trim in there makes life so much easier. We, or I, rather, decided to use yellow in the bathroom because a) it looks good with the black and white floor, and b) we had half a gallon left over after painting the bathroom upstairs. This is Restoration Hardware paint, people; that stuff ain't cheap, so we're getting our money's worth. I absolutely love the way the color turned out downstairs. The natural light, of which there is none upstairs, makes a huge difference. I ALMOST want to redo the upstairs bathroom, but that'll have to wait for when we have nothing better to do on the house, so that will happen, oh, pretty much never.


Choosing the color for the laundry room was a bit challenging, mostly because I wasn't able to rely on Restoration Hardware this time, for two reasons. One, it's such a small room, and it's really not worth buying that much paint for that much money for a laundry room. Two, Restoration Hardware didn't have any colors that would work in that room anyway. We had to go with a color that would work with the red in the kitchen, the yellow in the bathroom, and the cappuccino in the hallway. We narrowed it down to blue, so off to the Lowe's we went to choose from the million shades of blue.* I wanted a bright blue, something cheerful, even if it is a laundry room. You have to go through that room to get to the bathroom, so it should still look nice, right? We're surprisingly thrilled with the color; it looks so nice. But who comes up with the color names? We chose Boudoir Blue. It still makes me giggle. Because I'm 12.




*Again, I must reiterate why I adore Restoration Hardware paint so much: it saves you the hassle of choosing from so many options of a single color. You want a green? Here's three: dark, medium, light, and you know whatever color you choose will look fabulous. It's so worth the $30+ price tag per gallon to save my (and, consequently, Michael's) sanity. Seriously, picking out toilets was hassle enough.