It all started with this bath mat.
This beautiful, wonderful, blasted bath mat that Captain Cavedweller gave me for my birthday a few weeks ago.
The yurt where we stayed on vacation had the best bath mats in the world in the bathroom. Luxurious, soft, perfectly marvelous bath mats that made me stand on them for no reason except to enjoy the experience. I wanted one. Quite ferociously.
I don’t know where or how he found one, but Captain Cavedweller did and bought it for me for my birthday along with a set of dreamy towels to match the bath mat.
The only hitch in this whole get-along was that the bath mat and towels did not match the walls of my bathroom. Sure, it was all green but sage green and mint green are not the best of friends and truly do not play well together.
So last weekend, I decided to paint my bathroom to match my new rug. After all, it should only take an hour or two. Right?
Ha. Ha. Hee. Har-dee-har. Ho.
No.
It took all weekend. All blooming weekend.
The painting itself took about two hours (forgot about painting the ceiling in the sparkly world in my head where I was planning all this), but it was the scrubbing and cleaning and polishing and shining and more scrubbing that took forever. I mean, seriously, you can’t slap new paint on the walls and not clean every square inch of everything else in the room. Can you?
It would just be so wrong. Way faster, a lot simpler and much less stress – but still wrong.
The thought that I could have possibly returned the rug and towels for a color that would have gone with my mint green walls never even entered my mind until I was completely done with my makeover project. Wouldn’t that have been an easy fix to the problem. Except I really liked the color of the rug and towel. According to the many color surveys I have willingly participated in over the years, my “home” color is green. That would explain why all but two rooms in my house sport some shade of green in the decor, paint or window treatments.
So not having green wasn’t even an option. And despite all the work involved, I am loving the end results.
Here are some before and after photos of the bathroom…
Mint Green - before
Ahhh - beautiful spa-green walls.
She Who is Really Liking the New Color
Savvy Entertaining 
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