Still working on the bathroom.
Well, after having the bathroom torn up for almost 2 weeks I'm not much closer to getting it done than I was the first day. Augh!
I have spent more time trying to figure out paint and flooring that I am about to go insane. Actually just looking at all the choices made me physically sick and I was just wishing my house would burn down so I wouldn't have to deal with it! I'm sorry but as Americans we just have to much to choose from for everything. It's no wonder we are so stressed out!
We finally found some flooring yesterday and I think I finally figured out a paint color. It seems crazy but I have this not so great green counter top and tan tile. I orginally wanted a dark yellow for the walls to match a curtain I have with green and yellow. But that just made the room look really dark and dingy.
So some of the paint makes the walls look "dirty". I mixed about 20 different shades trying to find one that would work and did finally come up with a pale yellow that will hopefully work.
I did buy one can of paint that just didn't work. It looked awful on the wall but nice on the paper. I took it back to Lowe's and they did try to re-mix it but it just didn't work. It's a pretty tan color so hopefully I can use it somewhere else. $14 wasted on that one.
Today I went back to Lowe's and got more paint and will hopefully get it at least pained today so on Sat. or Sun. we can lay the floor.
Tawra
I have spent more time trying to figure out paint and flooring that I am about to go insane. Actually just looking at all the choices made me physically sick and I was just wishing my house would burn down so I wouldn't have to deal with it! I'm sorry but as Americans we just have to much to choose from for everything. It's no wonder we are so stressed out!
We finally found some flooring yesterday and I think I finally figured out a paint color. It seems crazy but I have this not so great green counter top and tan tile. I orginally wanted a dark yellow for the walls to match a curtain I have with green and yellow. But that just made the room look really dark and dingy.
So some of the paint makes the walls look "dirty". I mixed about 20 different shades trying to find one that would work and did finally come up with a pale yellow that will hopefully work.
I did buy one can of paint that just didn't work. It looked awful on the wall but nice on the paper. I took it back to Lowe's and they did try to re-mix it but it just didn't work. It's a pretty tan color so hopefully I can use it somewhere else. $14 wasted on that one.
Today I went back to Lowe's and got more paint and will hopefully get it at least pained today so on Sat. or Sun. we can lay the floor.
Tawra
posted by Tawra Jean at 9:21 AM
2 Comments:
Tawra, do you have a Habatat for Rehab store any where close to you? (we even saw one of these stores in Hawaii this past summer) You can find some wonderful things there at really good prices. Sometimes new, in the box tiles etc, sometimes used, but all good quality.
A good friend of mine just redid her bathroom and I love it. She got her tile from the FREE box at the rehab store. Enough to do the floors and 3/4 up the walls. She got all different size tiles, all different colors..it looks like a quilt in her bathroom. Any color will match because there are so many colors in the tile. I wish I could show you a picture. She used paint she got in the 'oops' supply at Lowes..cost her less than $10.00She has done a great job and spent very little money...
Good luck to you. Hope it gets done soon. Roxie
I am sorry, that was supposed to be Habatat for Humanity rehab store...not Habatat for Rehab...It was early when I wrote that, what can I say??? Sorry...Roxie
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