I Blame the Home Design Shows...
I love House Hunters, and I love some of the other home design shows. I started watching them when I had a minor medical procedure done over the summer and got hooked. This is a BAD thing. A very BAD THING.
Then I got my husband watching some of the shows with me.
It started with Stainless Seduction. All those pretty shiny appliances.
Now I have a stainless microwave, stove and dishwasher. My old ones needed to be replaced! Honestly! Hubby and I shopped for months until we found what we wanted at a price we could live with.
Harmless right?
Bwahahaha!!!
Have you ever noticed all those two-toned walls in those design shows? The darker walls and white trim? And the Realtor or home designer always says things like, "Paint is cheap!" or "Painting is an easy fix!"
They are LIARS and they should be arrested for FRAUD! And personal injury.
Why?
Because this weekend, we decided we should start painting our house. We did it before, over ten years ago, so surely we can do again. Right?
We spent a day doing all the trim work. So far so good...then my husband rolled the bathroom walls.
Holy Crap! The paint was DARK. It looked beautiful in the bathroom, but the whole house?
Hubby and I crawled in the jacuzzi that night and regrouped. First we tried to talk ourselves into painting the whole house the dark color, but finally we found a way to do a little color correction. The next morning, we put the corrected color on the wall and loved it. We spent the rest of the day painting and didn't stop until nine that night. Then more painting on Sunday.
Sounds like we got the whole house done, right?
WRONG! We still have the master bedroom, bath and entire downstairs left to paint.
And OMG! In the last decade, I have AGED. This morning, when I tried to get out of bed, my knees refused. Flat out refused. My hands are swollen from painting...never mind, I don't need to list all my aches and pains.
But the freshly painted walls look fantastic! I love them!
The rest of the walls are taunting me, "Paint me! Please! Don't leave me like this! Come on, you weenie, shake if off and PAINT!"
Sigh. And this morning, I'm waiting for the plumber to get here to fix a leak under the bathroom sink. The leak one of my darling sons didn't think the mention to me.
Once the plumber is gone, I am going to dive into my book. If I can get deep enough into writing my book, I can ignore the unpainted walls!
Maybe. Okay probably not.
Anyone else think these designer shows are dangerous?
posted by Jennifer at 9:10 AM
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The rest of the walls are taunting me, "Paint me! Please! Don't leave me like this! Come on, you weenie, shake if off and PAINT!"
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! ::ahem::
Watch out. Next thing you'll know and it'll be five years later... Oh, wait. That's my house. ;-)
LOL. Be careful with your hands though.
I painted my place once and I'll never do it again. I didn't know you could hurt so much afterwards.
Michele, stop laughing at me!!! But seriously, that's why we started upstairs--we don't have much of a choice but to finish since everyone who enters the house can see the half-painted walls.
Dru, I'm fine. My husband is nagging...uh, looking out for me. But thanks for caring!
When I moved into my current home, the previous owner was a wallpaper whore. It was INSANITY. Little tiny prints all over the place. We spent that first summer stripping everything bare and painting in rich colors. Now I'm bored. I hear paint calling me. Those shows ARE dangerous.
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Erica, we put up wall paper in our old house--then stripped it years later. SO NOT FUN! I'd rather paint! I swore I'd never have wallpaper again after that!
So those Design Shows are seducing you too, huh? They make it look too easy :-) But it sure is nice once it's all done.
Those shows are wicked bad. I mean really bad, they make you do things you regret.
I paint one room a year. The whole house? woah, that's just masocistic. But you are now my hero and nemisis all rolled into to one. But where are the pictures?
Hey Cele! Those show are seductive aren't they?
We are painting in chuncks; two or three days at a time. We're making progess.
Take pics? I could, but I'm bad about pictures!
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