Crazy Little Thing Called Life: Texture, Paint, & Backsplash...OH MY!!!

Wow, two posts in one night. I'm on a roll. :)

Anyways, here are the promised pictures of the kitchen redecorate. I've already posted pics of when we refinished the countertops, look back a few posts for that one. But here are the pics of the fully finished kitchen. When we first moved into the house, I told Nick I wanted to paint the kitchen gray and use my Fiestaware as accent colors. Nick said, "You like color too much... I don't think you'd be happy with gray." I thought about it for a few months and decided lime green was the best course of action. Nick thinks I picked that color just to show him to second-guess my color choices. That's not the least reason why I chose this color. I was sitting in church one Sunday morning, and they had a stock image of a limegreen wall with either a lightbulb or white lightswitch on it. I'm not sure which. Anyways, I thought to myself, "Ooo, that would be fun." I've been so sure that's what I've wanted since then. It was a neverending process to rip all that wallpaper down, but in the end, I'm sure it'll be worth it. My boss told me about an easy way to texture walls. It involves tissue paper and primer. You prime a small section of the wall and put crinkled tissue paper on while it's still wet. Then, prime back over the paper. Yes, you leave the paper on the wall. After it's completely dry, paint. Our backsplash is probably one of my favorite parts of the room. We got it at Home Depot. It looks awesome against our green walls. :) However, my absolute favorite part of the room are the pictures Nick framed. They are from our honeymoon to Hot Springs. All of them were taken at Garvin Woodland Gardens. Nick had them printed and mounted at Staples, then he built and painted the frames. They look awesome and tie the whole room together. Without further ado, here's our bright, and redone kitchen!