Blurple? Seriously?

I did indeed get up on Tuesday... Or well, actually I stayed up all night Monday night... But anyway. That night I had resolved that if I am going to have to actually start living in our bedroom then I was going to make it a place I would actually want to live. Maybe I should give a little background information on my situation here so you can better understand.

I'll just get to the point. The house was terrible. I'll put it this way as well... this was not JD's choice. We'll not talk about whose choice it WAS, but it was not HIS. The layout isn't awful, but the rooms are sort of smallish (for now)... Well, crude as it may be, here is the layout before

The rooms from left to right, top to bottom are:

Mudroom - Bathroom - Music Room - Kitchen

Master Bedroom - Living Room - Dining Room

Focus on the kitchen for a moment. Notice the stove at the END of the counter... Just stuck there, at the end of the counter AND at the EDGE of the doorway. Like, it lined up with the edge of it. Ugh. The block in the corner is a freestanding antiquey pantry. The block further down in the corner is the fridge. Next to that is a small freezer. Ok.... The little niche those are in was light blue color. The rest of the kitchen was a dark royalish color that was not... very nice... I mean, it was just, ugh. Add the halfway done glossy white tile "backsplash" behind the stove, awesome.

Moving on, Dining room. The dining room is teal. Teal with like, dark peacock green trim. The living room is somewhere between seafoam and mint. the guest room was just an ugly beige. The bathroom was a weird dark "periwinkle" color, but not quite, with mainly green stone looking linoleum that actually is pretty nice. To go a little further on the wretchedness of the bathroom, said OTHER person had painted the trim the periwinkle color also (which is just... flat out stupid. I'll go ahead and say it). To make it even worse, the room has "wainscotting" So white wainscotting, but then the trim around the wainscotting the same color as the wall? What the hell? Ok people, NEVER do that. Mudroom was also just beige. And the Master... Ok, the MASTER bedroom was blurple. Blurple is a color Allen and I came up with which describes a blue that can't decide if it is purple or a purple that can't decide if it is blue. And like, the wordy descriptions almost make them sound pretty, compared to the mental vomit session you have when you see them... But anyway. Of course we got right on that. The following is the layout now... (so far only the kitchen has actually changed layout wise, but it makes MUCH more sense.

So anyway, now the walls in the kitchen are black. Yes black. We moved the counter over, added a galvanized steel backsplash along the entire stove wall, painted all the trim white, AND knocked out the wall and put a 4 feet wide archway to the dining room. We also added wall back so the counter would not be ON the edge of the archway as it had been before. Facing the archway in the little niche there will be a butler's pantry at some point and the left wall of the niche will be black board paint with a 6" drink ledge going across it at chair rail height.

The dining room is still teal, but for now it's not the worst thing. We're going to move the wall between the dining room and living room over to make the living room larger and the dining room smaller so we'll tackle all that then. The living room is still seafoamy mint (but that will be changing in the VERY near future...) Eventually the living room will be fabricated with red damask, but for now we'll just paint. The other week I got fed up with the bathroom. I also realized that the trim color in the dining room is actually pretty if IT had've been on the walls instead of trim so I painted the bathroom that color and painted all the trim white. Now it is glorious. ESPECIALLY with the floor. Allen took the music room so now the mudroom is the "music room" (really just musical instrument storage right now). Allen painted his bedroom a very nice smokey blue.

I believe, well, every room should be nice, BUT I especially want luxury in my bedroom. I mean, I go all out with expensive comforters, 6 pillows (not including the accent and neck roll pillows), at least 400 thread count sheets... I mean, I like my bedroom to be NICE. All of my furniture is black. Black does NOT go with blurple. Neither does gold and peacock damask or black and "taupe" damask... you get where I'm going with this. So now the master bedroom is a rich golden color that's utter perfection. The current comforter is the black and "taupe" damask and now all is right with the world. I'm still getting it put back together, but once I do, I'll definitely put up some pictures. For now, I'm off to buy curtains!