Brown, Blue, and . . . Chalkboard??

What do all these things have in common? They are soon going to be on the walls in my laundry room. It seems that I have recently uncovered this creative, home decor side of me that I didn’t know existed!  Creative, sure, but in writing and ideas — not artsy things. 

Envisioning the way I wanted things has never been the issue, making those ideas come to fruition in the way I pictured them is more the issue. I wonder if it’s not that I can’t make it happen but that I’ve simply never tried. My mom always said that she worked so she could hire people to do those kinds of things for her. I wonder if she didn’t underestimate herself a little bit. So I’m going to try it. I may fail and that is okay. I’m going to paint the upstairs of my little townhouse, starting with the laundry room. I’m starting there because if I mess it up it’s not a room people spend a lot of time in, I hope. So here’s the plan . . .

I want the upstairs to be brown and blue. My bedroom brown and the bathroom and office to be blue. So I’ve decided to use both colors in the laundry room (which is off the bathroom). I’m going to do large squares of color and just to be fun, I’m throwing in some chalkboard squares. I have no idea what I’m going to write on them but who cares??  It’s my artistic licence.  If that works out, I’ll move on the the small part of the bathroom.  You get the idea.

I’m going to take before and after pictures and let y’all decide if I should keep going or heed my mother’s advice and work so that I can pay someone else to do paint for me!