Jul 07 2008
This is the one about painting.
I spent a good portion of the holiday weekend helping my parents paint the inside of their house.
My body is super-sore. Who thought that 10-foot ceilings was a good idea?!
They painted the majority of their house a boring beige color:
And we only got around to painting one bathroom. Bathrooms are really tough to paint…there’s a lot of stuff to paint around, and it’s a cramped little space. My mom picked the bathroom paint color based on the shower curtain she got on sale at Bed, Bath & Beyond. I hate this color:
Eighty percent of the house is that boring beige, and the one bathroom is green. I kept saying that they should spice it up and add an accent wall–and they finally listened, but still kept it pretty safe. I call it Sedona red…it’s kinda burnt orange looking in real life:
We painted 2 walls with this orange/red color.
Highlights from the weekend include my mom looking at a wall I just painted beige and joking, “Oh my god, Michael. This wall needs some touch-ups. I guess if you want something done right you have to do it yourself.”
She then grabbed a bucket of paint and started touching up the beige wall…the only problem was that she was using the white baseboard paint. I ended up having to re-paint the wall.
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Oh, the sedona red color is nice. The green wouldn’t be too bad if it was only one wall in the bathroom, but an entire bathroom? Hmm.
Beige… exciting… the green wall makes the light switch look pink.I helped my parents paint a few weekends ago. Did the ceiling white and primed all the walls. I got paint freckles on my face and had to squeeze around furniture. Exciting times. I do like the sedona red though, it looks like it would make a nice accent to the beige. I talked my mom into doing one wall of the living room the same red as the dining room. Hurrah for our artistic sense!
The red’s a nice color to use as an accent, especially if the walls are that color beige. The green… not so much my color, but maybe it works in the bathroom with those particular curtains.Lol @ your mother though for messing up your wall.
Okay, this one is totally unrelated to the post, but I had to laugh when the word “diabeeetus” came up for the CAPTCHA image. You have to watch the remix for that:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZSnlo3W-3Y