If You Gave a Mouse a Cookie

Color test

Have you ever noticed that even small home improvements are like the children's book If You Gave a Mouse a Cookie? You start with one little thing and end up doing a dozen things.

That's the way it is with my bathroom. For Audrey and David's arrival in less than two weeks, I wanted to do a couple of little things in the bathroom, starting with texturing the raw sheet-rock ceiling (that has been that way for more than a year).

Then after texturing the ceiling I see the walls need a facelift as well, and have begun filling in holes, smoothing bumps, and re-texturing them, too. Of course then the whole thing needs paint now, and if I'm painting I may as well replace the toilet paper fixture, the light switch plate, the shower curtain rod. Well, it could go on forever (provided I had the money to fund it).

You see, that's what happens if you give a mouse a cookie. He'll need a glass of milk. And if he has a glass of milk, he'll need a napkin. I forget how the story ends, but the mouse ends up drawing, taking a nap, and getting a new haircut even.

Back to my bathroom. Above is my color test, selected to match the homemade curtains on the right. I painted the medicine cabinet and have decided I would prefer the blue paint on the walls and the trim white, not the other way around (which means repainting the medicine cabinet now). It's a very small bathroom and I am terrible about selecting wall colors, but I decided my inclination to always go all white is too timid and am throwing caution to the wind, painting it a color my grandmother would have called "Mexican blue." I may end up hating it, but by golly I'm going to give it a try.

I can always go back later and paint over it. With white.