kitchen update & bathroom oops!

so one day i came home to see my favorite kitchen mat in the middle of the living room... with a hole chewed through it. who can guess who done it? yea, Buddha. that kitchen mat was the inspiration for my kitchen decor, i loved it. i wanted to decorate the kitchen to match. i was bummed he destroyed it. but thats what he does when it rains, he gets into trouble. pent up energy i guess.

but last week Pete and i had been talking about getting a large area rug for underneath our kitchen table because in the winter i never want to sit at the table because the tile floor is SO cold. we stopped in home depot one night and guess what! they had a 5x8 area rug in the same pattern as my little kitchen mat! NO WAY! oh the little things that make me happy!

it came in today and i was so excited to put it under the table. LOVE LOVE LOVE!

now we need to get curtains in the same family of colors, any ideas on what style would look good with those windows?

and now here's my OOPS!

i wanted to paint our guest bathroom upstairs. its already decorated a dark grey, black, and white. i picked out a couple of paint chips from home depot, came home and decided on the lighter shade of grey (pebble grey). that was my first OOPS, not that i knew it yet. (I SUGGEST YOU ALWAYS GET PAINT SAMPLES FIRST AND PAINT IT ON YOUR WALL BEFORE DOING THE WHOLE ROOM, AND DONT MAKE A DECISION UNTIL THE PAINT SAMPLE HAS DRIED!!) i went with the lighter shade because i thought the darker one would make the room appear smaller.

on sunday pete painted the bathroom. when he was done i went in to inspect it... our bathroom is a baby blue, dolphiny grey color... why me? i HATED IT!

so this morning, we went and got paint SAMPLES and i slapped some on the walls. and of course the darker shade of grey that i should have gone with was a better match. but i knew that if i asked pete to repaint it he would be MMMAAADDDD! so to help my case, today i spent a good hour taping off the bathroom so that he couldnt complain about having to do it too much. hopefully it gets done soon.

in these pictures, the walls dont look baby blue, dolphiny grey but they really are, even pete will admit it.

YUCK!

the color on the right is going to make it on the walls sometime soon (i think) and this time it will be the right shade of grey (fingers crossed).

the chosen color (on the right) is Granite Grey. what do you think? or should i go darker?

i guess i could still change my mind, we havent bought any paint yet, just the samples. so what do you think? the one on the left or the right?