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