I painted part of my kitchen today. It's been a while since I painted walls. The last time must have been what.... four years ago? Wow. Anyway, I forgot that the great majority of the hassel of painting is actually in the cleaning up.

Also I forgot how unnerving it is to do a room by sections. My kitchen has wainscotting which will be a different color than the upper part of the walls. Right now it's like that. Most of the wall is bright yellow. The wainscotting is pea green. The previous tenant had a higher quotent of funk than me.

So my plan is to use two different shades of the same blue/green color. So the wainscotting is darker, but the same color value. I just got the wainscotting on one section of wall done today. I was going to do the upper wall too, but I ran out of energy. So now I have this blue/green wainscotting and bright yellow walls. I stand there and look at it, and I see absolutely no green whatsoever. It's blue.

I can't tell if I didn't stir the paint well enough, or if my eye is being tricked by the intense, clashing yellow. I'm thinking I'll have to paint the upper part of the wall its intended color, then decide if I need to do another coat on the wainscotting.

Yay. Another project to work on while I'm avoiding dealing with the book mess.