Yellow Walls and the Phantom Lawn Mower

You may recall from past posts that our kitchen walls were dirty white (except for the golden yellow "accent wall"). When we moved in the whole place was covered in chalky matte white paint that has aged, and unlike a fine wine got much much worse with time. As renters come and go I have a feeling their attitude was "it's just a college rental house" and did nothing to improve it and even did our house the disservice of not keeping it clean. After a year in this house, I've now painted the den, dining room, mud room, my room, and finally....the kitchen! The rule is that we can paint any room you like as long as it goes back to a neutral when we move out.

I'm not convinced that I wont have to buy paint to cover this once I move.

But I LOVE the color and who doesn't love a yellow kitchen anyway? It's brighter than I expected and duller in pictures than in reality, but you get the idea.
The color is called "Fresh Pineapple" by Glidden. I got two free quarts from their promotion giving everybody in America free paint. Picking the color online was a bit trickier since we don't have a Home Depot so I went here to look at the colors from online paint chips. Believe me when I tell you that the colors are not the same on screen and on wall.

Typically, I'm drawn to more soft color palettes but I have red and black and yellow in the kitchen already so this seems to fit. The paint gives the walls a fresh, clean brightness we haven't seen until now in our kitchen. I can't complain.

What do you think?

Couldn't resist taking a picture of the glass bottles on the window with the sun coming through. I just love the way that looks.


Now...for the Phantom Lawn Mower
While taking a nap today after class, I woke to the sound of a lawn mower. I got up to see who it was because it sounded like it was right outside of my window. In my sleepy stupor, I couldn't see anybody and decided that I must just have acute hearing while I'm asleep (which 22.5 years of sleeping through alarms, etc would certainly refute) so I went back to my napping.
When I got back up...the grass was cut. I couldn't believe my eyes. I have no idea who did it. After talking with Suzanne, Diane (two of my roommates) and Clifford (who has cut our grass before and planned to do so again) I am baffled! Thrilled, but baffled. So, phantom lawn mower, if you are out there, thank you thank thank you for cutting our super tall embarrassing grass! We really appreciate it!