i’ll give a prize to the first person to correctly guess the theme behind my apartment’s shiny new paintjob-to-be. (no fair guessing if i actually told you already.) also i have no idea what sort of prize, but this being me there’s a good chance it’ll be shiny of some sort.
Me: Okay, I think I’m ready.
Home Depot guy, who — it later turns out — was supposed to get off shift right before I strolled up to him: What– sees pile of chips and my list — oh, boy.
Me: Well, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing colorfully, right?
here’s a description:
- front office: light green walls with darker green trim,
- living room: lavender walls with wine trim,
- kitchen: wainscoting in pale orange, with pale yellow above the chair rail,
- bathroom: pink walls with chocolate trim,
- bedroom: medium blue walls with pale blue trim.
aside: actually, the Home Depot guy was totally cool. he called in another guy to help him and they mixed up ten tubs of paint for me. it turned out that they were out of one particular base in the quart size, so i have to hit the other Home Depot on North Ave. today and try and get that, but they accidentally mixed a different on that should have been a quart in a gallon size, so they mixed up ten tubs. i was grateful i had a book with me, as i was waiting at the paint counter for a good forty minutes. the guys were super cool, though, and i have lots of really gorgeous paint now. i am through with living in white-walled boredom! even if the cost of spectacular color is over $200 — yikes. but i do have half a dozen fabulous people coming over to help me beautify my life, so i’m feeling pretty warm and fuzzy about that.
but back to my silly little contest:
as a red herring, i’ll throw in that i’m plotting to paint the gas line to my stove — which rises along the wall behind the stove and enters the wall, inexplicably, about halfway up — a bright enameled green, and attach silk flowers to the top. but that’s just me being me. (bonus point if you correctly guess which type of flower — daisies, sunflowers, or forsythia?) okay, i have no idea if any of y’all actually care at all, but i figured i’d post this and see if anyone was amused enough to try and guess. there is a theme, it’s fairly obvious if you think about my long-term interests/hobbies, and i’m totally buying the matching shower curtain at some point if i make it up to water tower.
