Going "Old World" in my Kitchen

So after three years in our house, I'm finally getting around to painting the kitchen. I talked my friend Hilary (the decorating expert) into helping me retexture the walls in a venetian/old world style. Right now we're letting the texture dry. It took us about 6 hours over a two-day period to texture and then tomorrow we'll start painting. I'm going RED, baby!!! I'm visualizing the finished effect to be a cafe-like motif. We will probably do one wall (by the windows) in yellow just to tone down the red. To finish it off we'll do a brown glaze over it all to give it that Old World feel. Here are a couple pics of the work in progress. I'll keep you posted!