colors
Our contractor returned on Friday morning. Some of
the work we want will have to wait until spring,
but some can be done soon. In theory, he is going
to paint and mount shelves in the room that will be
my office in about a week. Yay!
Today I went to Home Depot to buy paint. Now, I don't have a favorite color per se -- that is, my "favorite" varies depending on context (paint? clothes? carpet? food?). I like yellow in many of these contexts, though, and I was kind of bummed that painting the bathroom yellow would have been a bad idea, so I was determined to have yellow for my office. But I'm particular about yellow.
You'd think yellow would be easy, but it turns out to be challenging. There are lots of orange-yellows and red-yellows and green-yellows (yuck!), but just plain yellow seems to be uncommon in the land of paint chips. After studying the options for a while (and carrying some outside where I could see them under natural light), I chose one. I took it to the counter and after the person looked up the formula, asked him to confirm that it contained less green than red (and ideally no green at all).
He checked and said "it's pure yellow -- in fact, it might be our only pure yellow". He complimented me on my eye for color. And now I am happily paint-enabled. With luck, I will remain contractor-enabled. :-)
(The reason that painting the bathroom yellow would have been a bad idea is that the major color in the stained-glass windows in that room is green -- so a red-tinged yellow would clash, and even a pure yellow would look greenish-yellow during the day. I can't stand greenish yellow, in pretty much any context. So I went with blue, which worked out well and is safe.)
Today I went to Home Depot to buy paint. Now, I don't have a favorite color per se -- that is, my "favorite" varies depending on context (paint? clothes? carpet? food?). I like yellow in many of these contexts, though, and I was kind of bummed that painting the bathroom yellow would have been a bad idea, so I was determined to have yellow for my office. But I'm particular about yellow.
You'd think yellow would be easy, but it turns out to be challenging. There are lots of orange-yellows and red-yellows and green-yellows (yuck!), but just plain yellow seems to be uncommon in the land of paint chips. After studying the options for a while (and carrying some outside where I could see them under natural light), I chose one. I took it to the counter and after the person looked up the formula, asked him to confirm that it contained less green than red (and ideally no green at all).
He checked and said "it's pure yellow -- in fact, it might be our only pure yellow". He complimented me on my eye for color. And now I am happily paint-enabled. With luck, I will remain contractor-enabled. :-)
(The reason that painting the bathroom yellow would have been a bad idea is that the major color in the stained-glass windows in that room is green -- so a red-tinged yellow would clash, and even a pure yellow would look greenish-yellow during the day. I can't stand greenish yellow, in pretty much any context. So I went with blue, which worked out well and is safe.)