No Longer Seeing Red!

Yay! We're no longer seeing red; in the kitchen, that is. While we were at the Kmart bake sale Saturday, Brad started on a long awaited project: painting the red kitchen. At the time, red seemed like a great color for the kitchen. However, after we installed black granite countertops and stainless steel appliances in June it just didn't seem such a great idea anymore.

Brad and I had been going back and forth on the idea of painting the kitchen for about 5 months now (as long as we have had our new countertops). As it turns out, we both agreed that red wasn't the right color anymore but it would be a hassle to paint over red. We had made a deal: he paints the kitchen and I would get him the Madden '09 game for the Wii. I guess he finally had the energy to tackle this project this weekend (and he really wanted that game). So he painted, and I bought Madden '09. He started and finished this project over the weekend. After it was all done he said it was a lot easier to paint over the red than it was to paint the red. It took 2 coats of pink primer and 5 coats of red paint to paint the kitchen red and it only took 2 coats of primer and 1 coat of Eggshell Cream to cover the red paint. It really lightened and brightened up the space. I took some pics of the kitchen tonight. It looks so much better, so much brighter. The pictures don't really do it justice. (Notice my stove in the pics, it is not on because we have to keep the breaker switched off so it does not turn on all by itself.) I will try to post some pics tomorrow of the kitchen in the daylight.

By the way, the Madden '09 game for the Wii is really fun! I am glad Brad painted so we could get a new Wii game!