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.
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One of those really boring blogs?
Nope.
Wish I was brave enough to be bolder with color in our house.
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Well, you’re lucky your husband doesn’t care what color you paint the walls. My husband has a definite opinion, which is why the living room is still the icky color it was when we moved in nearly 5 years ago!!!
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I like to play around with color, too. At least if I make a mistake with it I can fix it (relatively) inexpensively. I play around with technique, too. I just did sponging in my daughter’s room, I’ve stamped ivy leaves and painted vines in the kitchen and three colors of paint, a comb and sandpaper gave the mantle over the fireplace the look of old weathered barn wood. Lately mustard yellow and colonial red are appealing to me. Hubby’s just rolling his eyes.
You aren’t boring anyone.
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One of those really boring blogs?
Nope.
Wish I was brave enough to be bolder with color in our house.
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Well, you’re lucky your husband doesn’t care what color you paint the walls. My husband has a definite opinion, which is why the living room is still the icky color it was when we moved in nearly 5 years ago!!!
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I like to play around with color, too. At least if I make a mistake with it I can fix it (relatively) inexpensively. I play around with technique, too. I just did sponging in my daughter’s room, I’ve stamped ivy leaves and painted vines in the kitchen and three colors of paint, a comb and sandpaper gave the mantle over the fireplace the look of old weathered barn wood. Lately mustard yellow and colonial red are appealing to me. Hubby’s just rolling his eyes.
You aren’t boring anyone.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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