Maui Mauve
So the realtor showed up last evening to develop the punch list of things that need to be done and the first words our of her mouth were "Paint the dining room."
"But", I protest,"you don't understand. It matches the wallpaper in the kitchen."
"Paint it white."
"But ..."
"... the same white as the rest of the house."
Which is to say Sherwin-Williams 1109 Aria Ivory. Yawn.
That's, of course, the color the dining room was in the beginning. That's before people started painting their dining rooms fire-engine red and forest green and all the other colors of the rainbow. And, of course, we jumped right on the "paint the dining room anything but white" bandwagon.
"Now wouldn't the dining room look nice if it picked up one of the colors in the new wallpaper in the kitchen?" someone (perhaps me) suggested. Next thing you know I'm in the paint store with a piece of the wallpaper stuffed in the color-matching machine and shortly thereafter I'm heading home with wall paint of a color that's never been made by humans before. Let's be creative and call it Maui Mauve for lack of a better name. Wunderful color. It matched the wallpaper perfectly and we've always enjoyed it ... until last evening.
So, I was off bright and early this morning with punch list in hand. Someone to clean the carpets. Check. Vinyl flooring for the utility room. Check. Contractor to power wash the house and deck. Check. Sherwin-Williams 1109 Aria Ivory paint. Uh, oh.
Have you been to a paint store lately? If not, be prepared for a few surprises. First of all, latex wall paint must be made of crude oil because it's pushing $40 a gallon these days. Second, English apparently is now a minority language in paint stores. Not being at all fluent in the Spanish of Latin America, I had to drive around quite a while before finding a paint store with a sign in the window saying "English spoken here!"
Despite the language gulf, I was soon on my way home with a bucket of boring Aria Ivory in each hand to paint over the beloved Maui Mauve in the dining room.
Now, folks, if you ever get the itch to paint your dining room some color other than white and you think that you might sell the house during your lifetime, resist the temptation! I don't care what the label on the can says about coverage, you are going to paint over the Maui Mauve or Fire Engine Red or Forest Green with Aria Ivory not once, but twice.
And the realtor is going to be sure that you do.
Trust me on this one.
"But", I protest,"you don't understand. It matches the wallpaper in the kitchen."
"Paint it white."
"But ..."
"... the same white as the rest of the house."
Which is to say Sherwin-Williams 1109 Aria Ivory. Yawn.
That's, of course, the color the dining room was in the beginning. That's before people started painting their dining rooms fire-engine red and forest green and all the other colors of the rainbow. And, of course, we jumped right on the "paint the dining room anything but white" bandwagon.
"Now wouldn't the dining room look nice if it picked up one of the colors in the new wallpaper in the kitchen?" someone (perhaps me) suggested. Next thing you know I'm in the paint store with a piece of the wallpaper stuffed in the color-matching machine and shortly thereafter I'm heading home with wall paint of a color that's never been made by humans before. Let's be creative and call it Maui Mauve for lack of a better name. Wunderful color. It matched the wallpaper perfectly and we've always enjoyed it ... until last evening.
So, I was off bright and early this morning with punch list in hand. Someone to clean the carpets. Check. Vinyl flooring for the utility room. Check. Contractor to power wash the house and deck. Check. Sherwin-Williams 1109 Aria Ivory paint. Uh, oh.
Have you been to a paint store lately? If not, be prepared for a few surprises. First of all, latex wall paint must be made of crude oil because it's pushing $40 a gallon these days. Second, English apparently is now a minority language in paint stores. Not being at all fluent in the Spanish of Latin America, I had to drive around quite a while before finding a paint store with a sign in the window saying "English spoken here!"
Despite the language gulf, I was soon on my way home with a bucket of boring Aria Ivory in each hand to paint over the beloved Maui Mauve in the dining room.
Now, folks, if you ever get the itch to paint your dining room some color other than white and you think that you might sell the house during your lifetime, resist the temptation! I don't care what the label on the can says about coverage, you are going to paint over the Maui Mauve or Fire Engine Red or Forest Green with Aria Ivory not once, but twice.
And the realtor is going to be sure that you do.
Trust me on this one.
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