The Kitchen is Actually Happening!

After tons and tons of planning and talking and goal setting, the kitchen is actually becoming a reality.

It got a major jump start one night at Menards.  We were looking at hardware, backsplash, and paint ideas whe we saw the mistint section.  They had a green mistint, two gallons of it, for $5 each.

We had already decided that green was the color we wanted our walls, and I figured one green was as good as another, and that price was certainly right, so we bought both gallons and came home.

Before I even had a chance to steel myself for the excitement of painting, Jason was off and running with the painting:

And I thought, boy, that is not at all what I thought that was going to look like!  But, because I am scared of my own shadow, I didn't dare say anything to him.  He kept painting:

And asked me what I thought:

And I said, "I like it!  It looks good!  You're doing a great job!"

He finished this section of wall and stood back:

And he said, "You like it?"

And I said, "Yeah!"

Then I took a deep breath, gathered my nerve and said, "But do you think maybe its a little too green?"  "Or maybe it might look Christmas-y?"

And he said, "Hmm...I don't know.  What do you think?"

And I said, "What if... I hated it?"

And he said, "You don't like it?"

And I shook me head.  No.  I don't like it."

And he said, "Good.  I hate it."

And I said, "I hate it too."

So the next day we went back to the paint store.  Several paint stores: Mendards, Wal-Mart, Lowes, and Home Depot.  And I looked online.  And I grabbed what seemed like thousands of paint samples.  And they are looked SO different next to each other. 

I spent hours and hours holding paint samples up to the "inspiration kitchen colors."  After all of this, I determined that the colors on our laptop must be off. 

Finally I picked Glidden's "Spanish Olive" for the color, but we went to Home Depot and had them color match that with Behr Premium Paint, because Jason said it was the best and I believe him.