The Color of Home

As I've discussed recently, Adam and I are really excited to finally have a home that we can make our own: a fireplace where we can burn fires, a kitchen where we can hang shelves, and, of course, walls we can paint.

We finally decided to paint both an accent wall in the living room AND the entirety of our little bathroom. The living room will be a bigger project (mostly because we'll have to move all the furniture away from the wall and work around a humungous hot water pipe), so we decided to do the bathroom first.

The chosen color: Firecracker. That's right: a bright orange-pink color! (It's actually a lot brighter and crazier than the internet photo shows.)

We went and picked up the paint and supplies two Fridays ago, but last weekend we were too busy to paint. So today, after our morning trip to Target in Brooklyn (new coat FTW!), we cracked open the paint can and slapped some of that sweet color on the walls.

And it looks AWESOME.

I've never been a fan of having nothing but blank white walls, particularly in bathrooms— I always think it makes everything look more institutional, more clinical. But out bathroom looks like a dream now! And the color looks really great with our bright yellow towels and shower curtain.

Here's a picture of the way it looks so far:

The only thing we have left to do is the top of the walls up by the ceiling; we'll need to borrow a ladder to do that part, because it's so high up. That's why it looks uneven at the top of the walls in these photos. But it's looking pretty good, for an under-construction bathroom!

We're thinking something equally bright (only in orange or yellow) for the living room...hopefully to match the fire in our fireplace, which will be happening as soon as we get our yearly chimney cleaning.

And while you may not be crazy about our chosen color, you have to admit— you've probably never seen a bathroom painted Firecracker before!

What's the craziest color you've ever seen a room painted? (I saw a photo of a room in a bright, crazy green once— and it looked splendid!)