Home Improvement Wasteland

The power and the force of the home improvement vortex has sucked the Dulins in. In late spring, we painted our breakfast bar wall a gold maze yellow. We loved it and since we had so much of that paint left over we decided to use it in our powder room.

Its just a little powder room, how hard can it be? It tested us both and possibly our marriage. Thankfully, we've learned what our strengths and weaknesses are as Dulin home improvement team. I am grateful nothing gets to my husband and he has the gracious attitude that "everything can be fixed."

I, on the other hand, live in fear of the impending home improvement project can of worms turn into your worst nightmare. There's a drop of paint on the floor and I am horrified, "OH NO!!!!! What will we do???? How did this happen? How can we live? How can we go on?" You get the point.

Anyway, we redid the powder room in the yellow and love it. We replaced the lighting fixture to something more fun from Lowe's. The mosaic red mirror is gorgeous and on sale at Pier One. The bathroom hardware was found at TJ Maxx Home Goods (love that store!!). The outlet plates on clearance from Tarjay. The round orange frames are $5 frames from TJ Maxx. BUT I went to Lowes with my orange bath towel and got a paint sample that matched and painted those babies myself. How craftsy am I?

The kitchen backsplash unfortunately not found at Tarjay or TJ Maxx, but well worth it. As Sue says, "Its the kitchen bling." A recycled glass with an irredescent sheen its simply gorgeous. We chose a limey/apple-esque green paint that is similar to the green in my dining room drapes and ties everything together. Feels clean and modern and fun and contemporary. I LOVE IT!!!! I could live in that kitchen! Oh, wait. I DO live in that kitchen. (PS -- we had contractors do the backsplash but we painted.)