Halloween...It's Coming!

Happy Halloween!!

Colors

We met with our painter yesterday. Quite a character. He was expecting us to give him two or three shades of "White or Almost White" from his thin pamphlet and he would be done with us.

Man was he was wrong.

We were his worst nightmare. We showed up with a list of colors that would make a rainbow turn green (or purple) with envy. Every room and hallway is a different color.

Or two.

He's going to start painting today, and it will take him a week and a half of taping and rolling before he gets to leave. I can't wait to see what the whole thing looks like when the dust settles. We took some dramatic chances...

We were pretty surprised that he agreed to do all this painting, he was clearly not expecting such picky and demanding customers bearing paint chips.

On the down side though, we were looking forward to Ingrid flying in to town to help us paint. Now we'll have to think of another excuse to get her here.

Picking Oranges

We're looking for just the right shade of orange for the kitchen. It has to be dark, but not too dark. Not too orangey either. It has to be perfect.

As a result, I have been canvassing the Lowe's and Home Depots in my area for samples.

I've gathered up more burnt orange than a firefighter in Valencia.

I would post our final choice here, but most people don't calibrate their displays and such screens are notoriously bad at reproducing color. And this is a subtle art, this "orange picking".

So you'll just have to come over and see it.