As I suspected last night, the first coat of turquoise paint was much darker than I had in mind. So I started today day with adding a bit of white paint to the original color to create a softer shade. Now it’s perfect!
It didn’t take long for me to decide the drawer/cabinet pulls needed to be black. I’d thought about doing this during the original paint job last fall but I had plenty of painting on my plate back then so I left them as they were. With the new paint they just looked wrong- so tonight, they’re black!
Covering the shelves with white contact paper was the single best thing I could have done. I’m astounded by how much brighter the cabinet space looks now! This simple change would probably have been sufficient to brighten the original green. Oh well, the new color is so much better : )
I can’t get the color right to make the picture match the real deal. You’ll just have to stop by and see for yourself!
The white dishes stand out so much more now than they did before! The soft turquoise against ultra-white is just so pleasing to the eye.
And notice that in the lower right? What? There’s nothing there? That’s right, because I am going microwave-free, baby! I’ve thought about doing this for years and what better time than when I’m already making a fresh start? I’ll be honest, in the end it was that extra counter space that really spoke to me. In a kitchen this small, you need all of it that you can get! There will be a toaster oven in that space eventually, but it will still feel so much less cluttered than it did before. Yey for that!
I’m still trying to figure out how to paint the perfect circle on a wall. All day long I was thinking of all sorts of options to solve this particular problem but I kept coming back to me painting it painstakingly slowly by trembling hand. Currently my idea is to put a lime green circle inside of this one, so apparently I’ll get lots of practice at this. You’ll know how I did by whether or not the next pictures feature nice straight squares in this space!!!
Of note, in this photo you can see the difference between the original color (the strip around the outside of the circle) and the final shade (center of the circle.)
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