Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Eleven

It's 11:00 p.m., which bums me out. My husband and I painted our living room tonight--well, half of it anyway and all that productivity cut into my evening. And I am worried that "Caramel Honey" is too much for the living room walls. Sort of.

Me: "Do you like this color?"
Him: "Well, it's not a color I would have chosen, but I like it."

Long pause.

Me: "So you hate it?"
Him: "I didn't say that! I would just choose a boring color."

He would not have chosen red stripes in the family room or "violet aura" for the bedroom. I throw all caution to the wind when choosing the color of a room. Why not? It's just paint. I can't buy fancy-schmancy furniture, but I can make a room feel a particular way with color. My husband likes plain, boring, dull. Dorm room beige would be fine with him. He leaves all the creative decisions to me.

"Caramel Honey" is a good color. It is. Warm, glowing, comfortable. Unfortunately, it doesn't mesh well with my "guacamole" entryway, so I'm going to have to repaint that, probably red. I want to use red accents in the living room and eggplant purple.

We used this cool paint stick thing that worked like a giant syringe. I would highly recommend it. It really did eliminate the dripping mess of a roller.

I've just turned this blog into one of those really boring ones I find when I click on that "next blog" button up at the top of this page.

I'd better get to bed before I actually bore myself to death. Although, my husband might like that. With the life insurance money, he could have the living room repainted beige.

4 Comments:

Blogger Suzanne said...

One of those really boring blogs?
Nope.

Wish I was brave enough to be bolder with color in our house.

5:14 AM  
Blogger Cindy said...

Boring??? Are you kidding me? YOUR blog, I'll have you know, is on my "I can't wait until she updates her blog" list. If you're boring, then I am hopeless! So THERE!

3:30 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh Melodee! You're mind reading again!!! LOL Cory and I JUST picked out new colors today...for our living room of all places LOL. What is Caramel Honey exactly? A nice brown, or more of a rich tan? And guacamole? How about a nice sage green? That always goes so nicely with tans and browns, I think. That's actually what we picked out...3 colors though, I love using accent colors (hence the 3 shades of purple in my computer room!). We have a sage green, a warm buttery yellow-ish color, and a tan.

9:40 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Every wall in our house is exactly the same shade of off white. We are going to be the only neutral house left in town. I think your colors sound fun!

~Tina

7:29 AM  

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