Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Grinch Green Walls


To the tune of My Way by Frank Sinatra:

♫ ♪ Regrets, I’ve had a few, this one is huge and so I’ll mention it.
I painted, my wall bright green, and now it seems, like the Grinch’s residence.
Inspired, by a chair, I thought I’d dare, to make a statement
But now, I’ve done one wall, I see I haaaaate it. ♫ ♪

Yes, even the design-y-est among us can make some spectacular mistakes. I got the brilliant idea to paint my kitchen acid green. Why? Because I was on a bright-color kick and I thought it would be super-cool. Then I saw a picture of some chairs with beautiful bright-green upholstery and thought "That's it! That's the color." so I decided to find the color that matched and paint the walls. 

Here's how that choice went:


I saw that chair and I loved it! Then I realized that I already had lots of items in the color that I loved.

And finally, I found a paint swatch that matched. What was the result of the green madness? 

This:



These pictures really don't do this color justice. It cast an eerie green light all around the kitchen when the light hit it. At night it was nearly day-glo. In fact, if I had a black light, it might have turned out to be glow-in-the-dark. It was spectacular... in a "spectacularly bad" kind of way. The very, very kind lady at Lowes, who sold me the paint, also took it back and gave me a refund. 

With it I bought a lighter, prettier green. It's kind of a honey-dew melon color. It's much better.



See? Pretty, huh?

The moral of the story is 1. choose your inspiration carefully, and 2. don't keep going with a bad choice, cut your losses and try again. If only the nice lady at Lowes could give me a refund for all of my bad decisions!

See you tomorrow!
H

10 comments:

  1. Green is SO FREAKING HARD. I have completely given up on it, actually. Won't use it anymore, for paint at least. I don't know what it is, but anytime I've done a room in green, no matter the shade, it's a whole mess of trouble.

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    1. I know, right? It's waaaay too easy to drift into army/avocado on the dark side and minty/baby bootie green on the light side. You'd think that since it's such a prevalent color in nature it would be easy, but nope!

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  2. Ha! I've been there. We started painting our kitchen a nasty shade of yellow (changed it to blue), and our guest bathroom was Oklahoma State orange for about a year!

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    1. I had Lu's nursery day-glo orange. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that she didn't sleep in there ;-p

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  3. I love the new color. Soft and beautiful!

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    1. Thank you! Me too. I have to remember that I usually do OK with paint if the color strikes me as "pretty" the minute I think "bold" I'm sunk.

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  4. Oh yeah, green can be hard! I absolutely love the moral of your story. Wise, wise words xxx

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    1. That's a moral born of many bad paint choices. My best choices are when I get those sample pots and paint squares on each wall. They never look the same in the paint store.

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  5. I absolutely love the new color, and you're right- it looks just like the honeydew I just polished off!!

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    1. Thank you!!!! Yep. Honeydew green. I like cantaloupe orange and watermelon red too... It's a melon thing.

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