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More paint

Who wants to hear more stories about painting?

Well good because that's what I did for most of the weekend. After getting up at 6:45 on Saturday morning (after only 5 hours of sleep) to watch Manchester United (who won!) and Liverpool (who tied)..Andy and I headed over to the Home Depot to pick up paint for the dining room. If you remember from a post last year, or if you've been perusing the archives, I wanted to paint the living room orange. Well, the living room is now the dining room and I scaled the idea back from the entire room to just one wall..or two depending on how you look at it. Anyway, we picked out a color..Pumpkin Patch and just went with it.

I have to say that I love going to the paint counter at Home Depot. Everyone is nervously waiting for their paint and looking over everyone else's shoulders looking at what colors they've picked. Everyone asks everyone else for advice about colors even though the person next to you obviously doesn't know crap either. One woman next to me was asking me to help pick out a color to match her orange wall (pumpkin pie) but I'm sure that when she saw the color I had picked out come out she deeply discounted my advice. The paint was ORANGE...not just a little orange or bright orange..IN YOUR FACE ORANGE. Way more orange than that. When we put the first coat on the wall Andy said we were going to have to become Tennessee or Clemson fans b/c that's the only way we could justify this wall.
The color darkened a lot after two coats and it needs probably two more so I think it will be toned down a lot but the color in the can is frightening.

In addition to the dining room it was also my bright idea to paint one of the walls in the entryway, the wall you see when you walk in. A couple of hours later, on the train on the way to Mike and Ting's apartment, Andy had a realization that it was a terrible idea. I threw my traditional hissy fit but then agreed that he was right. This was reinforced when we woke up in the morning and the entryway had taken on a hellish orange glow b/c the color was reflecting off of the other wall. It's already been painted over...it was terrible.

Pictures will be forthcoming if we ever get enough coats on the wall.

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posted by carolyn @ 11:40 AM