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I spent the majority of the day yesterday painting my kitchen and I am still having some SERIOUS mixed emotions. I believe this entire process is definately going to take some time for me to get used to --- maybe because at the current moment all I seem to be seeing is red!

I'm certain that adding insult to injury is the fact that there seems to be no other colors in the room to add any contrast. I cannot see the warmth of the oak cabinetry or the light airy champange countertop with it's mottled golden hues. Everything within the room is all subdued since being entirely covered in plastic dropcloths and I won't even mention the glaring blue of the painter's low tac tape against the red walls! Somehow the "IN YOUR FACE" red walls have even made the Pergo Red Oak flooring receed somewhere off into an unknown distant place.

I really don't know what exactly it is that is causing all these mixed emotions. Hell, I've never painted a room with red walls before in my entire live! I guess I simply expected the paint or the color itself to "blend" more right from the start and not show every little detail in the areas where the paintbrushed trim and roller painted wall overlap. Maybe because it still is a work in process and this is how the beautiful red kitchens I've seen in many magazines are created, one layer after another? Maybe the fact that I'm not absolutely 100% happy with the quality of the paint or my expertise of painting using the color red? Whatever it is, I am certainly hoping and praying it goes away!

I managed to get the backsplash and two walls painted with 3 coats. I have some touching up to finish where I completed the trimming in between the ceiling and the wall and along the top and bottom of the tiered soffit. It barely looks like there is one coat on those sections of the wall, could this due to the fact that I used a paintbrush vs. a roller and I'm not getting as much of the paint in these sections?

I realize that right now it is really hard for me to visual what it will look like once the entire room is finished, everything is back in place, and the room is actually decorated the way I envisioned it. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around those results; maybe that is all part of of the process as well, at least that is what I'm trying to convince myself of! I cannot help but sit and wonder what the hell have I gotten myself into now? ROFLOL!