Daredevil

After putting a new medicine cabinet in our guest bathroom, I decided...."hey, let's re-paint the walls!" As you may know, I periodically get really excited (and ambitious) when it comes to painting projects. And then while in the midst of the project I think "this is a pain in the ass....I'm not painting any more rooms ever." But then, here I am again.

So this weekend I convinced Minh to let me paint the bathroom red. Well, not strictly red. It's called daredevil and it's a deep, pink-ish-purple-ish red. It's intended to play off the colors in the shower curtain and a painting we have up in the bathroom. If you want to see it, you can use the "color smart" tool here and search for daredevil.

So last night we put in the first coat. Woah. It's really.......red. And putting dark color on over light walls is tricky (alot like painting your toenails red). It's not covering all that well yet so it's looking streaky and weird. We may need three coats before we decide whether this was a great idea or a disaster.

We also bought some "magic spell" blue and are thinking about a horizontal stripe all the way around the top, like a border. Yes, more stripes. And this time it was Minh's idea, I swear. He thought the presence of the blue might soften the harshness of the red. Though we now realize that putting stripe up near the ceiling may just draw your eye to the no-so-clean transition between the red walls and the white ceiling. Oops. At this point, we may or may not go through with the blue stripe. I guess we'll just wait and see how the red looks after one or two more coats.

What have I gotten us into this time?.....