I went to bed Monday night at an unprecedented unless I am dying of the flu NINE O’ CLOCK. And I woke up yesterday morning feeling like I’d been run over by a truck. A large truck. A large truck full of people wielding baseball bats that they beat me with as they drove by.
So it’s a good thing that I am in love with the new color of my kitchen because I am never painting it again.
And I can’t tell you how much it delighted me that so many of y’all completely underestimate the extent of my OCD and actually believed that I’d leave the piece of the wall under the desk painted turquoise. If you could have seen the way I used a q-tip to meticulously get brown paint into every corner of the crown moulding, then you would have only been left wondering why I didn’t immediately paint that spot under the desk when I discovered it at 8:45 p.m. on Monday night. The answer is that P would have declared me insane.
But you’ll be glad to know that it was fully painted by 9:00 a.m. yesterday morning. When I may have also gotten out a few more q-tips to touch up some miniscule edges that no one will ever see.
I have a sickness.
You may have noticed that there’s a white bag sitting on one of the barstools. Or you may not have noticed because you’re like me and oblivious to your surroundings. Anyway, the bag is from Steinmart. I stopped by there yesterday because sometimes a lady who has just painted her kitchen needs nice things and found the best BCBG sweater with dolman sleeves for $29.99. According the price tag, it normally retails for $149, but I always suspect that they just arbitrarily make up those numbers to make you feel good. It kind of looks like this.
Except the sleeves are long. And it doesn’t have pockets. And it has a cowl neck. So basically the only thing it has in common with the sweater featured above is that they are both black.
I did the best I could. It’s not my fault that Steinmart doesn’t really feature anything on their website.
Anyway, I just wanted you to know in case you’re in the market for a great sweater with dolman sleeves.
But back to the kitchen.
I really do love the color. It goes so well with the rest of the house and it feels like a neutral palette that can be accented with other colors according to the seasons. It’s a perfect example of why I love working with Holly Mathis. Because even though she’s never stepped foot in my home (much to my sadness and dismay), she was able to look at a few pictures that I emailed her and know that all my kitchen ambitions could be fulfilled with the right shade of chocolate brown paint.
Then when I decided I was set on Plantation Brown by Sherwin Williams, she suggested that I might like Chocolate Truffle by Martha Stewart better and she was right. It was just a little bit softer or had more cool undertones or I have no idea what I’m talking about but it just seemed like the right choice. And it totally was.
I still have dreams of finding large whitish-creamish pottery pieces to put on top of the cabinets. Holly suggested that I can just go to Goodwill, find cheap pieces and spray paint them if they aren’t the right color since they’ll just be decorative. See? BRILLIANT.
I also sent her a picture of this fabric because I want to make an inexpensive window treatment and maybe some cushions for the barstools and the desk chair.
And then she suggested several other fabrics, but these two were my favorites. She said this first one was so me and she’s right. It is so me.
And then I love this one because I clearly feel some need to incorporate birds into my kitchen decor.
Which is ironic considering how I feel about having to deal with poultry in an eating situation.
(Did I just type “in an eating situation”? As opposed to what? A social situation?)
(I just hate cooking chickens, but they are delightful when you have them over for afternoon tea.)
(As if I drink afternoon tea.)
Anyway, I’ll keep you updated on the kitchen situation. And I’ll also let you know if I find any more cute sweaters at Steinmart.
Heaven forbid I stick to one topic per post.