The painter rang this afternoon, spare of the moment actually. Apparently they can squeeze us in tomorrow and the next day to paint the render finish. Trouble is, we hadn’t yet decided what colour we wanted to paint it. Trevor told him to call back this evening because he wasn’t sure what colour I had in mind – he he he I wear the colour pants in this house.
Anyway, I spent close to two hours going over the colour charts deciding what colour we should go. That’s one mean feat when you’re just looking at tiny little samples. I know, I know, we should have gotten onto it earlier and ordered some sample pots – taken our time. Unfortunately, there were other things consuming my time – like idiot and the kitchen.
The render finish is really light and it suits the house so I wanted something like that. I posted a while back on a building forum and the regular interior decorator suggested a colour called “Light Glaze”. It was nice but I thought it may have been too dark after seeing how good the light render finish looked. I looked at a few others which seemed ok but again, being such small samples, it was hard to tell.
The painter dude rang me back at 7.00pm as promised and of course I had yet to decide what colour I wanted. I was tooing over the ‘light glaze’, ‘eggshell pink’ and ‘raw cashew nut’. The poor guy didn’t know what to think with me talking myself through each colour as if to get him to pick a colour for me. Anyway, I bit the bullet and went with ‘light glaze’ (apparently – according to the decorator, it compliments Jasper very well and it was her favourite).
I still don’t know. What if it’s too dark? What if I’ve made the wrong decision? What if I ruin a good thing? I guess I’ll know in a few days.
'Colourbond - Jasper'
ETA - Oh My God! I think I've possibly made a mistake with the colour choice. Sigh. My colour choices had been alright to date. Double Sigh.
Please tell me it will look ok - Lie if you have to!
3 comments:
hey nic, i dont think you made a bad choice.. the colour will look different in real form anyway.. i think those colours do complement each other..
and on another note.. what an IDIOT the kitchen man is. why is it so hard for labourers to do a good job! i think i know the answer.. Majority of them are men and they are always trying to find the quickest way to get things done. or they always take for ever. in this case idiot did both...
just think that if most labourers were women things would go smoothly and things would get done quicker.. arggg anyway.. you made a good good choice.. you go girlfriend..
Nic,
No need to lie- I think you have made a good call on the colours. I think they compliment each other well. Its really getting down to the pointy end of things now and soon all these dramas will be behind you and you will be relaxing in your lovely new house, cooking up a storm in your new kitchen and stacking all your dirty dishes in your fabulous dishwasher. And one day, when some time has passed under the bridge, this will become one of those stories that you tell- 'remember that idiot kitchen guy?' But you won't care, because it will all be worth it. Chin up and hang in there, it will get better from here. The best is yet to come!
Nice choice! I would have probably gone the same way!
Mel xxx
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