Bathroom Blues

This is the master bathroom in our home - day before yesterday it did not look like this - it was white - all white. I hate white walls!!!! It takes no imagination at all to have white walls (in my humble opinion, that is - if you have white walls and like them, well, I just don't know what to say other than 'well, okay then.'). Anyway, for me, the white had to go.

I have been trying for about three months to get Dan to agree to painting the bathroom. However, he just wasn't that "in to it", but I didn't give up. No, not me - I just keep suggesting, making little comments, etc. BUT not nagging (I hate it when someone nags!) Now, don't get me wrong - he had agreed to paint the bathroom and we had even bought the paint- he just didn't want to do the painting (He agreed with me that the white walls had to go).

Let me make a comment here - people have asked me if the dogs shed and I have always said "no" or maybe "just a little" - well, I found out that's a lie - just look at my white bathroom floor and you will see that the two little darlings do shed, probably just as much as any other dog, except their hair is short, so you don't notice it as much - unless you have a white floor. Then every single little hair just stands out. I haven't meant to lie - I just didn't realize how much until I had a white floor.

Back to our blue bathroom - last Monday we decided to paint the bathroom this weekend - we couldn't paint it on Tuesday, we were having company. We couldn't do it on Wednesday, housekeeping was coming (Yes, I am fortunate enough to have a housekeeper come every other week - it takes her two hours to clean and it is well worth every cent!), Thursday we had more company coming - so that left the weekend. So, first thing Saturday morning we got up, had our coffee, read the paper (The Gainesville Sun), ate some breakfast, then off to the bathroom to prep it for painting (which meant taking down the pictures, light fixtures, switch plates, moving all the decorations and towels to the bedroom, and laying down the canvas tarp).

Next, came changing into the 'painting clothes' - I don't know about you, but I have a certain set of clothes that I wear whenever I paint. I have the paint color of our house in North Carolina on them, even my youngest daughter's kitchen color that Justin and I painted before their wedding last year. Why do I have "painting clothes" - well, that should be fairly obivious - I get paint all over me - I mean, I do actually get some on the wall, but when it gets on my hands, I just wipe it on my clothes. It's more fun that way, and you have a great record of all the colors you have used in the past.

Finally, the bathroom is ready for the paint. Now, when Dan and I paint (and we have painted a lot!) we have a system - since he is so tall, he does the cutting in (plus, many, many, many years ago he worked for a building contractor part-time, and his job was to paint - so he has the experience to do it correctly) and I do the 'rolling'. Well - have any of you ever painted a bathroom??? Talk about cutting in - it is a 'forever' job! Then, Dan did not have "his" brush. To tell the truth, just between us, I think he took it to Melissa and Justin's when he went down to help them paint a couple of years ago and didn't bring it back with him - but he fussed and fussed about "the" brush - he ended up going down to the little hardware store close to the house and buying another brush (which he did like better, but it still wasn't "his" brush). Next, to make matters even worse, we had to put on two coats - which meant he had to cut in TWICE! Well, it took us all day Saturday, BUT we got it done.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know about you - but I think this is beautiful!! I have never painted anyroom blue before (at least I don't remember painting anything blue, and there is no blue on my painting clothes)- and this isn't really a blue-blue - it is more of a grey-blue - and, I like it a lot. Now, I want to paint the guest bathroom - and my family will never, in a million years, guess what color - NO NOT Green but a color I have NEVER painted, and I'm sure of that. I never even thought I would ever paint a room this color! How about hydrangea blue - you know a purple-blue - yes, I said purple (but not really PURPLE - just a touch of purple in a blue). Dan has not agreed yet - he said he would "have to see the color first". So, I will have to find just the right shade. Now, watch out world, I am on a mission!

Now, just one more little thing. Friday, Dan was out in the back yard and called for me to "come quick" - which he NEVER says. So, I come running - I mean, I think there is something wrong with him - or heaven forbid- one of the "two fat daschunds", but no everything was fine with them, but there was 'something' in the yard.

If you look very closely in this photo you will be a little baby bunny - it was hiding behind the water hose next to the house. We kept the "two fat daschunds" in the house for a couple of hours. I went out a few times to check and the baby was still there. But a couple of hours later, after a rain storm, it was gone - but I have a picture. (Doesn't take a whole lot to excite me, does it?)

Hope all you father's have a great day! If you haven't called, or seen, your father today - Go call them or see them - it will make their day - Until Next Time America!