it’s been over two months since I’ve written.
ironically, in my side job– when not being general contractor and day laborer for this house– I write to maintain another person’s blog, and this summer I hope to have a rousing success of a kid’s fiction blog.
At any rate, all is standard-standard, here. I’ve finished redoing the kid-bath (aka main bath) cabinetry in a white-ish (called Lychee, a Benjamin Moore color) that recalls the existing wall color (think, hint of pink)
...with flash
...and natural, evening light...
…after a chartreuse disaster nearly unmade all the inroads I had made on the man’s preconceived notions on color. In addition, I sanded, prepped, and painted the front door a color called “poppy” (light, bright orange that was, in point of fact, a Pratt & Lambert color tinted in a Benjamin Moore Paint) — the P&L was a less-saturated version of the original “Field Poppy”(BM) I wanted, but on the door in evening sunshine it’s HOLY COW bright. I like it. But to lessen its impact, I bought a gallon of trim color, a deep brown (also Pratt & Lambert color mixed in Benjamin Moore) with a hint of raisin. Or so I thought.
poppy and holy cow concord grape brown (actual name differs.)
On the trim, I went, HOLY DOUBLE COW POOP, it’s Concord Grape Purple.
And so I painted the whole carport wall, again with the same panic that compelled me to complete the bath project in one day (b/c it’d have done no good for The Man to have doubted that I was Subject Matter Expert on All Matters Paint.) –The wall, on Pratt & Lambert Sample, was to have been a deep, deep teal-ish blue-green.
On my wall, knock-yer-eye-out-turquoise.
Okay, really. Now I doubt my own flawless color sense, and yet… I guess it all worked out. I wanted, and got, “brighter.”
Earlier this week, I completed the sweaty, heavy-breathing task of hand-sanding the interior of the front door. Now I need to do the trim, so that I can get a tabulae rasa (“clean slate”, did I slaughter the Latin?) finish on the door AND trim. I hope to get it all complete –to include stripping and re-waxing the old-school slate floors– before we do a family trip to Maui next week –My original thought in this big-push, painting-project-palooza, was that when I come home from HI, I want to rest and regain strength before The Kid’s summer vakay. Then no doubt more projects await (like gardening, but there’s a soil study going on in the next few weeks, no point in knocking myself out before the sampling and results come back… right??)
Even still… Between front door & trim interior, office org overhaul, and trip preparation, then trip… Y’all will excuse me if I’m quiet again for a while, right??
