The Color Palette Expands!

After the success of the conservatory paint job, I was anxious to move on to other rooms. There's not a wall in my real-people house that has a neutral color on it, so it was starting to make me antsy to continue to look at the bare walls here! I love adding color to anything I can! Let my kind of games begin!!

To that end, I got to work on the family room! I already had a bottle of "Ivory" that actually has a good hint of yellow in it. Yellow is like my neutral. I love it and have pretty much decided it goes with everything (To me, blue jeans are to clothing what yellow walls are to a house). Anyway, after priming, I went to work:

Work space complete with kitty condo lamp table.

The yellow of the paint isn't showing up in the picture, but it also only barely showed up on the walls. So, it was back to Michaels for a little somethin' called "Churned Butter!"

Ohhhh, yessssss ...

I absolutely love this!

I didn't mix these two. I just put the "Churned Butter" over the "Ivory," and it ended up covering completely.

The kitchen was next on the docket! I started with the floor. I decided it should be light to let the darker floors on either side of it show off a little. I painted a coat of "Antique White," then it ended up needing a little sanding before coat #2 as the moisture of the paint made the little wood fibers stand on end:

After the second coat, I moved on to the walls! After much -- much -- debate about color, I went with custom-mixed shades of green ...

... and, I hated them!! Ugh!

I had a lovely vision especially of the eat-in area being something of a gardeny-feel with some white wainscoting, but the color just reminded me of an elementary school chalk board, and it made my stomach turn. And, I like the color of the kitchen, just not for this kitchen. Besides, how is the red crock pot ever going to look good in there?! 

Fun fact: I have officially given up my efforts to choose any shade of green to paint walls. I tried greens in two rooms of our house, and both were way worse than either of the above outcomes. And, then, I couldn't even pick it well here. So, that's that. It's not easy being nor choosing green.

I let this dry not long enough before I created a new color pallet which I love!

"School Bus Yellow" was at it again serving as the mix-in to "Toffee" to create a warm, yummy caramel color for the kitchen!

And, in the eat-in area:

Looking into the gable

From outside looking in

The original let's-try-this-color inspiration to this room was the paint on the far right called "Autumn Leaves." I found that in my stash and thought it would be perfect! Sadly, I was wrong as it was too rusty colored and a little barfy. It probably looks awesome on a painting where it is just a small part of many Fall leaves, but, to me, it didn't hold its own on these walls and would likely give the home's residents a little case of indigestion. I used it, instead, as the start of my base and added the "Cardinal Red" (second from the left). To that, I added some "Red" (creatively named, far-left bottle) and a few drops of the "Royal Violet" to come up with the cranberry-wine color! I really, really like it!

Put it all together, and we have what my daughter noted as a Fall theme!

For the win! (The vertical, looks-like-it-wasn't-painted streak is
the hinge to the wall so it can open from the front.)

There is a divider wall between the family room and the kitchen, so it really doesn't look quite like this. But, it does until I put the wall up. I really just want crawl in there and wrap myself in these colors!

And, just as a supply note, I realized I needed to have something on hand to deal with the leftover paint I mixed. Try as I might to actually use something straight off the shelf, it just didn't work for me. But, mixing my own also backs me into a corner should there be a need for touch-up. So, we found this organizer in the jewelry-making section of Michaels:

I guess I can probably dump that green
one, hahahahaha ...!

I love the piece of mind it brings me when I rip off the tape job! Of course, I've not needed it as by best friend Masking Tape has yet to pull *any* paint from *any* part of this project! Regardless. I like having the touch-up options on hand!

Speaking of tape, after finishing these paint jobs, I have almost used all of the originally purchased four rolls of tape.

Number 4 is on its way out, and number 5
is poised and ready!

It's funny how I saw Aaron getting a 4-pack of masking tape back when we started this project, and I thought, "How are we ever going to use that much?" Joke's on me ...

More developments are in the works! Stay tuned ...