Picky Picky Painter

Spoiler: I finally bought a gallon of paint for the kitchen. I color matched Eddie Bauer's Almond Oil to Olympic One at Lowe's. Olympic One is great because it's paint and primer in one, so theoretically you only have to apply one coat (we'll see). 

Here's a picture of the kitchen wall with my ultra artistic painting skills:

The really yellow color dominating the walls is the original color. The lighter yellow is the first color I tried. The sort-of-in-the-middle tan color is Almond Oil.

The color family I'm using reminds me of the walls in my last kitchen:

That is a picture of the kitchen by the way - the washer/dryer unit was in the kitchen. I loved that color but definitely wanted something a little different. However, I think Almond Oil was definitely inspired by having a yellowish/tanish kitchen prior to the current kitchen.

I'll let you know how it turns out!

Almond Oil

Earlier this week I mentioned that I decided to go with toasty-tan for the kitchen wall paint. So I went over to Lowes (during the same trip that I had the extra difficult tiles cut for the backsplash by an employee with their in-store wet tile saw - more on that later) to pick out a paint color.

I found Almond Oil by Eddie Bauer paints and purchased a $3 sample.

The lighting in Lowes isn't super great for taking pictures, but Almond Oil is the paint swatch on top of my stack. Almond Oil is from their Ridgeline Cabin collection (but I'll probably just have it color matched to a less expensive brand of paint). 

Hopefully later this week I'll be able to put it up on the wall and try it on for size...I mean, for color.