Painting with a Twist

What do you with 2 gallons of an impulse paint purchase of two colors that you swore you would love in your toilet room only to discover that not only do you hate it but you also realize you have $50 in paint that you will never use ANYWHERE?

You create a $68 masterpiece!!!

Earlier this summer I found these rugs at Ikea that I decided I must have. They are teal shag rugs with shag thick enough to be worms that feel wonderful under your feet and are favorites of my doglets. In fact, I wasn't sold on keeping them until I saw how much Lucy and Scarlet loved curling up in the shag. The problem with the rugs was that I don't have that teal color anywhere else in my house, so they looked very out of place. Not only that, but the teal made my bathroom cabinets look even more yellowy than before which was why I finally mustered the energy to paint them. The result is the picture below. 

You can just see the teal rug at the bottom. In case you forgot what they looked like before, here is the horrible picture from a month or so ago:

Soooo much better in my opinion. But again, there was the problem with needing a repetition of the teal color somewhere else in the bathroom to make it cohesive and not out of place. My stupid idea was to paint my tiny toilet room with the back wall in teal and the other 3 a lighter shade from the same paint chip. OMG, that idea sucked... I'm not even willing to show you a picture of what it currently looks like. Maybe that will be tomorrow's project. 

I've decided to paint the toilet room either the brown of my bedroom or the lighter chocolate-y color of my living room, maybe even a mixture of the two. But I still felt the need to repeat the teal somewhere in there... And find a use for $50 worth of very color specific paint. 

After our region meeting I went to Hobby Lobby and purchased 3 canvases and some green Frog Tape. I taped some designs onto the canvases and started painting. The final product is the picture up at the top. I assure you they are teal and not the blue color they look like on my computer. I really like them! :) And now I can hang them on the wall and incorporate a color I really like without being inundated with teal vomit!