Adventures of a Newly Unwed: Kitchen Update Part 2

Monday, March 2, 2015

Kitchen Update Part 2

Since my last post, I did get up the energy to go to Lowes to address the issue of the microwave. I spent an hour and a half searching for any other microwave that didn't have the express cook option. As suspected, there were no others aside from LG and Samsung. Both are currently held up in California due to the dock workers strike. Well, actually I dont know for sure where they are at, but that is why I'm guessing they are hung up. I confirmed, as suspected, that no one had placed an order in the system for our microwave. Luckily, I spoke with the person who originally placed our order. She seems to be about the only one who knows what is going on. When I walked out of Lowes on Saturday, we had an order in the system (I watched it be entered into the system). With luck, our Samsung microwave will be here before the end of the month.

Now, onto the second part of the update. Last week, Andrew was away on business, so I decided to paint. He hates the smell of paint, so I try to do it when he is gone. I went with gray, which is what we had in the kitchen at the other house.

Here is the kitchen when we moved in:

And, our switch to black appliances:

Now, for the paint transformation:

I started out with this color:

This is Valspar Woodlawn Colonial Gray

When the color first went on, I was a little afraid it was going to be too light. After a couple of coats, it wasn't as light as I thought it might be.

I wasn't convinced I liked the color all over and wanted to change things up a bit. I had a can of Dutch Boy Honest Abe left from my bathroom painting project. I have wanted to do a backsplash in the kitchen, but don't want to spend the money to do a glass backsplash right now. So, I thought I would use the darker gray to getva backsplash effect.