Paint Job #1

Well, it took 26 days for the first drip of paint to touch the walls of our new house. I actually thought it would take me months to be decisive enough to paint, but my mom was in town and I welcomed the help. Plus I couldn't take the entire beige house another second. I decided the first room to paint would be the master bathroom. It was a safe starting point since not many people see it, plus it was in dire need of some color. I was also anxious to get the flat builder-grade paint covered up by something more glossy, so that the steam and moisture from the shower wasn't being absorbed into the walls.

If you remember, this is what the master bathroom looked like a few days ago:

I knew I wanted some sort of orangish or yellow-orange color to tie into the colors planned for the master bedroom. Se we headed to the hardware store and picked up a few samples.


I forgot to snap a picture of the samples on the wall, so I'll get right to the finished product. Drum roll please....


And I love it. Kyle might be indifferent, but that's ok because I love seeing walls saturated in color. Watch out because I might now be obsessed with painting. We'll see...

A second bathroom update: In other equally intriguing news, I replaced our toilet seats this afternoon. The builders put on those crappy plastic ones. When mom and I were painting the bathroom, we found out real quickly that those lids could not be stood on. They also cannot be sat on (when the lid is down). Where else can you clip your toe nails?!? I mean come on. And since then I've been itching to replace them.

So I went to Menards all by myself and (without help) picked up these:


And within 20 minutes of being home, our toilets went from looking like this:


To this:

I know what you're thinking....it's a dramatic change. But the new ones have chrome hinges....ok, so you might have to be here to understand. And I learned the replacing toilet seats is probably the easiest home improvement project I will ever have.