I am sore. I spent the entire weekend working, picking out paint colors, looking at vintage furniture and painting. Work was busy Friday night, extremely busy, and it just about wore me out. Then on Saturday night is was DEAD so I spent a lot of time standing around and cleaning. Then I painted most of the day yesterday after walking up and down Hawthorne looking at funky fifties furniture (say that three times fast). This morning when I work up and rolled out of bed my body politely reminded me I'm old and need to park my wrinkled ass in that purple chair in the living room more often----meaning all the time---isn't Lawrence Welk on now?
Damn, I'm glad I didn't go to the gym on top of all that. Just thinking about that makes me want to take a nap.
Anyway, did you catch the part where I said I painted? That would be the dining room and half the living room, thank you very much. I didn't paint the wall in this photo because with all the furniture moved around and painting supplies everywhere, I just couldn't imagine where I'd stack all those paintings. I guess I'll be doing that tonight since the Roommate wants it done and painting is my part of the bargain. And although Boytek and the Roommate wanted the accent color to be dark chocolate brown, I went with lime green (about the color of the banner above), because that's how I follow directions. And because I spent 2 hours playing with colors on this site (click "launch color visualizer") and the only thing that worked with the orange couch and purple recliner was lime green---with red coming in a close second. Go ahead, play with the colors, I'll wait. Thank god I went to art school and studied color theory and all because that 4 year stint is finally paying off.
Anyway, it looks great and I couldn't be happier with how it's turned out so far. I also can't wait for it to be finished.
The only other thing I did this weekend was spend a little time hating people. People can be so stupid (present company excluded, of course). On Saturday I was driving down a half commercial, half residential street when I noticed a guy on the sidewalk (of the residential part) doing that hand waving motion that means "slow down". I didn't realize I was driving that fast to I glanced down at the speedometer and noticed I was going 25 mph. I also noted a sign saying 30 mph. Since I was on my way to the grocery store and we all know how much I hate going grocery shopping (because of all the stupid people) I was probably already on cranky street, so the dude with the wavy arms and sour look really pissed me off. I immediately turned around, drove over to where the guy was still standing, slowed down and yelled at him "Hey Barney Fife, I was only going 25. Just wanted you to know, have a nice day!" and drove off, not waiting to hear his stupid response. The comment did piss him off though, so one point for me. After that I went to the grocery store where everyone checks their IQs at the door, so you know how much I enjoyed that experience. People……….jeeze.
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lime green? wow, i know you are great with color, but i'm gonna have to see that to believe it.
I think the lime green looks great, the Roommate not so much. I played with that Sherwin Williams tool for HOURS and green was the best match.
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