Painting the house Yellow.

So for the last four weeks I have been trying to pick out paint colors for my kitchen and the living room. It is mostly an open floor plan so I want to choose the right three colors. Something that I am happy to be in and comforted by. A soothing popping wonder color that I am starting to doubt is out there. I have been pulling out my hair because I hate the vomit colors that came with the house. Yes that is harsh and everyday I get more complacent. I don’t want to get used to it, the mustard on my living room walls is horrible. I want some livable colors. I just didn’t know that a yellow kitchen was so hard to match or how many yellows there are. I want a green and orange but what shade of them? My brain is melting and boiling. It should not be so hard to pick paint colors. I am tempted to just go pick some colors and say this is what I want. Bam! It’s done. I’ll read about it to death stare hopelessly at little sample colors. I would be happy to paint a couple of samples on the walls to choose but I am having trouble narrowing it down.


I know that you have been wondering what we decided to paint the ugly kitchen. I am happy to report that it is now a very bright happy Yellow, Acorn Squash in fact. It took 3 coats to make the old ugly kitchen disappear. It is now bright and wonderful. We are going to paint the ceiling a light green, celery. I now love the kitchen.

Now what shade of orange to paint the rest of the house. Pumpkin Pleasure or Autumn Harvest. I really like squash and Autumn. The office will be a bright blue in the future and the boys room will be painted a light blue. My bathroom will follow the blue path. Hum My bathroom is getting a nice serene blue to match my bedroom. Maybe I should find a nice different color for the boys like green, or something. I have time and their walls are a greyish white color. I bet the paint was on sale when the last owners painted.
All the same a month in and it is beginning to feel like home. We have another 4-10 years before we move again. We have only just begun!