my mother makes me do it...
So...about that mixing of paint...
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Remember when we painted the family room? That wall down the center? That runs into the kitchen, that doesn't have a breaking point upon which to stop with one color and start with another? Which means that center wall has to be the same color in both rooms? Even if one is a nice creamy color and the other is a strange green?
Well, I had planned all along to SOMETIME just do the entire kitchen with the creamy color. I have a chair rail height wallpaper border with clapboard-style paper underneath right now. Well, I always have had that kinda setup, just with different styles. After The Horrid Pink (which, yeah, I admit to loving at the time *sigh*) with a roses border, I went to This Green with a strawberries and blossoms on white lattice border and white clapboard with green shadowing beneath.
The reason I picked the color green that I did is because Mom offered to buy the paint for the kitchen. I was TRYING to pick paint that would match the rose border!!!! I didn't KNOW she was gonna turn around AFTER THE FACT and wanna buy new border too. GAAAH!
Anyhow...it is a very odd color green...it works okay, but I would never really choose it on its own mertis, ya know? Even me, the green lover that I am. This just isn't my kinda green. Too teal and bold to suit me, I guess.
Okay...so now Mom's bought me this border (you'll see in a sec). She EVEN let me pick it out! *GASP!* So I'M buying the paint, the top will be the same creamy color and below the gorgeous border will be another color instead of more paper.
This is what I'd started to put into another post....
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The house is looking pretty awful what with everyone sick. I had, for some unknown reason, decided to see how easy it'd be to tear off the chair rail border and wallpaper beneath it in my kitchen, so I spied a loose spot and....well, .....I tore it. Thankfully, it was a small and contained area of wall. But sadly, it's the first thing you see as you come in the door. So now, beneath my cool newish cream paint is this awful pink color. That's the color I painted the kitchen and family room when we first moved up here almost 12 years ago!!! It was the medium rose color in the border I used then...heavens, I can't believe I ever painted ANYTHING that color!
*shrugs* Oh well...that was then, right? Urgh.
Anyhows...now the plan is this...
That's just a PSP rendition of how it's SUPPOSED to look...although, the yellow paint isn't quite that bold, I don't think. It was hard to get the colors just right...but once I get the small section done, I'll post an ACTUAL pic, okay??
Lord willing, I'll start to feel a bit more energetic. The past couple of days, I just feel like a slug. SO TIRED!!!
Have a good day, ya'll...
Comments
Moms! whattya gonna do with'em?
Pretty border! The yellow looks REALLY bold on my monitot, though. I'm sure the actual paint will like nice, though. If not, you can just blame your Mother!
Posted by: Member Linda | June 28, 2006 02:42 PM
Well, I'm sorry for how the paint looks on your monitot. (I LIKE it!)
Mom dropped me off up here earlier today. I'd walked down to borrow a potato!! Casey's stomach decided that's what he wanted, a baked potato, and nothing else would do, and we had not one potato for the baking.
Anyhow...she came in and saw the little sample dot on the paint can (b/c I HAVE none on the wall!) and started griping. So now I'm second-guessing myself. I just could NOT find a green that looked right with it, and now I'm stuck (maybe?) with a gallon of the yellow. WAH!
Oh...and pray...we got a thick envelope from the Eye-R-Ess-peciallystupid today.
I haven't opened it. Tommy's not home and I don't know if I can take whatever's in there by myself if he's too long in getting here, kwim?
Just pray that it's nothing.
Posted by: G~ | June 29, 2006 07:18 PM
I really didn't mean to insult your color choice. :( I'm sure it'll look fine!
Hope C is feeling better today. YIKES on the "I" envie! Hope it turned out to be nothing!
Posted by: Member Linda | June 30, 2006 08:15 AM
No, I meant I like "monitot"!! LOL! Funny and much more interesting than "monitor". Ha!
I think the yellow will be fine, esp. since it's not going to be on the entire wall. Anyhow...whatever!
Case is lots better, thanks! I, however, am feeling like crap. Not so much sick like the boys were, but coughing (AGAIN! ARGH!) and cold-sweat type thing. The stomach is going thru bouts of feeling a tad icky, but I'm fighting nausea as hard as I can, kwim?!?!?
Hopefully, I can get by w/o getting a full-fledged hit of this thing. Gah. I'm tellin' ya, this bone-numbing fatigue is enough to kill a body. Awful headaches (like bad sinus infection), scratchy throat and choking cough. AND SOOOOO TIRED!!!!!
Oh, and the Eye-R-Stupid thing? It says that we made a mistake in ;04 (haven't found a volunteer to go up in the attic for it yet to check) and the damages are under $500 (PRAISE THE LORD!!) Last time we dealt w/this kinda thing it was more like TWO THOUSAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Talk about Nightmare On My Street....that was it. We have a month to pay it, so thank the good Lord, we'll be able to pay it all in one payment! (according to the letter, I failed to include some benefits in our income. ??? have to check on that...anything's possible)
So thanks...it wasn't anything like I feared it might be. THANK GOD!!!! \0/
Where's my ice pack? I'm headed for the couch again.... *sigh* (hope you're feeling better...AND that it's NOT SSIRD Syndrome...for Corey's sake! Heh)
Posted by: G~ | June 30, 2006 06:38 PM