A horse of a different color
Today miome and I went to do the final walkthrough on the house today. This is the pre-closing inspection, where we make sure everything they said they were going to fix is actually fixed. We also brought paint swatches and our test canvases to see how certain colors would look.
The test canvases are an idea I picked up from somewhere. Basically we went to a craft store, picked up a bunch of large painter's canvases on sale, and are painting them the paints we are considering for the house. This way we have a large, mobile swatch of color that lets us see what it's going to look like in different lights, against our furniture, next to curtains, in various places, etc. This lets us get a better idea of what colors look like in a room before we paint the walls. The test cans we use are less than $3 and are worth every single penny if I don't have to repaint a room because the color on the tiny swatch you get in Lowe's looks like turd on a large area.
This has been awesome. We were going to put a green up in the kitchen, but it went horribly with the cabinets (and to hell with what Ikea calls that wood, those suckers look orange). It's such a pretty green though that we're considering it for other rooms. One color was vetoed altogether (it looked like a cross between desert red and old brick). We are still slowly putting together the rest of the first floor.
The problem I'm finding is the paint names. Some of them are really descriptive and match the color perfectly: burled redwood, dark sage, pumpernickel, pine forest, heavy cream. Some have names that are way too close like chocolate fudge, which looked like a melted Hershey's chocolate bar smeared on a canvas and that is my polite description, and fudge truffle, which is a much darker and slightly redder brown. A bunch of them indicate to me that some of the paint people have way too much time on their hands like a greens called Crocodile's Tears or Quaking Grass or blues called called Caribbean Holiday or Arctic Wind. And then there are some that just have no connection to the color they are assigned to that I can think of, like a pale blue called Merry-Go-Round a green-brown called Tundra, an off white called Prairie Winds, or a light yellow-brown called Spiced Vinegar. Really?
What I really need is a yaoi fangirl paint color list. It could have stuff like Dusky Nipple (a pale brownish-red), Ride'em Cowboy (a rich leather color), Engorged Rod (red purple), Temptation (deep, bright red), Angsty Soul (a dark gray, almost black), and Envy Me (green, of course). Then maybe I'd be able to make sense of these color names.
I'll find colors for all the rooms eventually. I just have to keep telling myself that.
The test canvases are an idea I picked up from somewhere. Basically we went to a craft store, picked up a bunch of large painter's canvases on sale, and are painting them the paints we are considering for the house. This way we have a large, mobile swatch of color that lets us see what it's going to look like in different lights, against our furniture, next to curtains, in various places, etc. This lets us get a better idea of what colors look like in a room before we paint the walls. The test cans we use are less than $3 and are worth every single penny if I don't have to repaint a room because the color on the tiny swatch you get in Lowe's looks like turd on a large area.
This has been awesome. We were going to put a green up in the kitchen, but it went horribly with the cabinets (and to hell with what Ikea calls that wood, those suckers look orange). It's such a pretty green though that we're considering it for other rooms. One color was vetoed altogether (it looked like a cross between desert red and old brick). We are still slowly putting together the rest of the first floor.
The problem I'm finding is the paint names. Some of them are really descriptive and match the color perfectly: burled redwood, dark sage, pumpernickel, pine forest, heavy cream. Some have names that are way too close like chocolate fudge, which looked like a melted Hershey's chocolate bar smeared on a canvas and that is my polite description, and fudge truffle, which is a much darker and slightly redder brown. A bunch of them indicate to me that some of the paint people have way too much time on their hands like a greens called Crocodile's Tears or Quaking Grass or blues called called Caribbean Holiday or Arctic Wind. And then there are some that just have no connection to the color they are assigned to that I can think of, like a pale blue called Merry-Go-Round a green-brown called Tundra, an off white called Prairie Winds, or a light yellow-brown called Spiced Vinegar. Really?
What I really need is a yaoi fangirl paint color list. It could have stuff like Dusky Nipple (a pale brownish-red), Ride'em Cowboy (a rich leather color), Engorged Rod (red purple), Temptation (deep, bright red), Angsty Soul (a dark gray, almost black), and Envy Me (green, of course). Then maybe I'd be able to make sense of these color names.
I'll find colors for all the rooms eventually. I just have to keep telling myself that.