"Her Uncle is in trade and lives in Cheapside…"
Yes, Donal and I live in Cheapside. Well, not exactly, but that's going to be my new name for the apartment complex known as "Aspen Chase". Such an elegant name. It's vaguely sketchy and very affordable. The latter feature outweighs the former in value, hence our occupancy. For the worry-warts amongst my readers (Mother…) don't be frightened for us, we keep a baseball bat by the door. Seriously it looks like this.
Just kidding, it's not that bad. There aren't skulls all over the ground.
Our apartment itself is actually pretty adorable. It was very exciting to paint the place. I picked out swatches (Donal's only input was "no purple") and paint. We got a nice dark red, a happy yellow, an warm almond tan and… a light blue?
Well, we decided to risk it and save money and get one can of Mis-Tint paint. Mis tints are wonderful because they're still nice paint, just not exactly the color that Mrs. Jane McSizemorehan had in mind for the front foyer by the swimming pool. At Lowe's, under their lights, the blob on the top of the paint can matched my blue swatch perfectly. I mean Pantone Coated, TruMatch, RGB, HSV, CMYK… perfect. Imagine my surprise then when I put my brush to the wall and found the color to be… well… not entirely blue. In fact, I would say there was a lot of yellow in there. So much in fact that the color could safely be called Green. And not really a subtle, soft Green. This was neon green. The living room glowed. My mother expressed doubts. Lauren raised eyebrows. Nora said "Oooohhhh… this looks… nice…?" Maryn said "Maybe it will dry darker?" I said "Blue????" You'll be relieved to know that the addition of dark shelves and furniture has significantly mellowed the green walls. I must admit I'm quite fond of our Five Buck "Blue". With our dark brown IKEA shelves and tables the living room really does look like Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream.
Perhaps if I can ever figure out our digital camera, or get batteries for it, I'll put some pictures up.
Just kidding, it's not that bad. There aren't skulls all over the ground.
Our apartment itself is actually pretty adorable. It was very exciting to paint the place. I picked out swatches (Donal's only input was "no purple") and paint. We got a nice dark red, a happy yellow, an warm almond tan and… a light blue?
Well, we decided to risk it and save money and get one can of Mis-Tint paint. Mis tints are wonderful because they're still nice paint, just not exactly the color that Mrs. Jane McSizemorehan had in mind for the front foyer by the swimming pool. At Lowe's, under their lights, the blob on the top of the paint can matched my blue swatch perfectly. I mean Pantone Coated, TruMatch, RGB, HSV, CMYK… perfect. Imagine my surprise then when I put my brush to the wall and found the color to be… well… not entirely blue. In fact, I would say there was a lot of yellow in there. So much in fact that the color could safely be called Green. And not really a subtle, soft Green. This was neon green. The living room glowed. My mother expressed doubts. Lauren raised eyebrows. Nora said "Oooohhhh… this looks… nice…?" Maryn said "Maybe it will dry darker?" I said "Blue????" You'll be relieved to know that the addition of dark shelves and furniture has significantly mellowed the green walls. I must admit I'm quite fond of our Five Buck "Blue". With our dark brown IKEA shelves and tables the living room really does look like Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream.
Perhaps if I can ever figure out our digital camera, or get batteries for it, I'll put some pictures up.
posted by Lindsey at 5:08 PM
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I'll have to come see it again personally. It has been a while.
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