Painting the bathroom

So, I've been meaning to write about this for a while, but I just now got around to it. Labor Day weekend (so, about a month ago) we were bored and wondering around Home Depot (isn't that what everyone does when they're bored?) and decided it was time to stop thinking about painting something and just do it. We have a small powder bathroom downstairs and we had already decided that's what we'd paint first. It's only about 4' wide and 6' long, so we couldn't mess it up too bad, right?

So we picked out a pretty sage color and tried to guess what we would need. Paint - check. Rollers - check. Paintbrushes - check. Paint tray - check. Blue tape - check. Plastic dropcloth - check. We bought it all and off we went back home.

Despite having done zero research on the subject, I had watched Trading Spaces so I felt like I had some idea of what I was doing. I put all of the tape up (that I could reach) and Matt taped the rest. There were several pipes and water lines and what-not coming out of the wall, so that was kinda hard to tape and paint around. We started in the small area under the stairs (near the toilet) and then moved onto the bigger walls. All in all I think it came out pretty well. We did a few touch-ups the next day, but I was very impressed with our first try.

I'm not sure what we'll paint next. We really want to paint our study, but that involves moving some pretty heavy furniture. We also want to paint our bedroom and re-paint our bathroom (we're not totally thrilled with the color in there.) But I'm guessing the only room that's gonna get painted any time soon is the "baby room." But not quite yet.

Here's a picture of the powder bath after we painted:
(it's a little blurry, but you get the idea)