Getting Some Color on the Wall

White kitchens.  Doesn’t that just make you drool?  I’ve been seeing the most beautiful pictures online, and I swear every blog and website is urging everyone to pick up a paintbrush and paint those old drab cabinets a glossy snow white.

Though I’m not sure how much white we can handle in this apartment.  Every wall, piece of tile, cabinet, appliance… white.  That’s why I practically drug Martin over to the paint section of the nearby hardware store to pick out paint instead of more tools for our kitchen remodel.  What if white were an accent color instead of THE COLOR?

You probably have one distinct feature you’ve always wanted in your future house.  It’s a pre-spouse, pre-family thing that you just KNOW.  For me, one of those things was always pale yellow walls with white trim and white picture frames.  Then I stumbled on this link where Jessica Jones of How About Orange got brave and decided to paint brown bedroom walls.

 

 

Kind of melts in your mouth, doesn’t it?

We’ve never really classified ourselves as risk takers.  But when you pack up and move to a whole new continent, the title “risk taker” kind of changes on you.  So what the heck.  Martin loved the idea of going brown, so we decided to paint one wall a deep brown color in our little soon-to-be yellow living room.  Our color board:

 

warning: brown walls may cause increased chocolate consumption

 As Martin roamed Berlin tool shops the next few days, I began painting.  The brown was like an enormous vat of chocolate pudding–YUM!  I barely finished before I was notified that Martin had the tools, and it was time to Get To Business:

Out with the old.

So what do you think?  Has the eight-hour time change totally knocked us off our rocker?  Or are you loving where this is going? 

(first two photos from How About Orange, remainder by Making This Home)