I may or may not have mentioned that my husband goes a little, what we like to call, "Clark Griswold" when he gets frustrated with a project that doesn't go according to plan. It is also referred to as "kicking the Santa" on occasion. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you haven't seen Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase as Clark - our family's favorite cult movie. He goes berserk on a Santa and reindeer display when the lights don't light. Anyhoo, my husband has these moments from time to time...here is an example of one. As I have mentioned, we are in the midst of hell - I mean a remodel (LOL) - and things don't always go as planned. This was a re-wiring project of the light switch to accommodate the two new can lights in the hallway. I honestly don't know what he was trying to do, but he got frustrated and hit the offending area with the hammer - problem solved. Of course this created a new problem in which he had to repair the section of wall with new drywall, meaning that he also has to texture the entire hallway to match. We originally were just going to re-paint the walls after doing the ceiling in the hallway. Looks like plans have changed.
We have however reached the painting stage in the living room and family room -YAY! About a month or so ago we picked out our colors. The living room was a no-brainer: Cyprus green with a white trim. We did however have problems agreeing on a kitchen color. We both wanted some real color; no white or off-white or variation of beige. Since the rooms are now opened up together they needed to coordinate and because red apples are my kitchen theme, it also needed to go with a deep warm red - what I call country red. Not a problem with the living room color- green is the compliment to red on the color wheel. I wanted a muted rosy-melon color that I saw on a paint card, but Bobby didn't like it so eventually we settled on a mild (or so we thought) yellow (Behr: Cornmeal). It wasn't what I wanted, but I thought I could live with it. Well, after priming the walls and painting the colors on I decided I couldn't live with it after all. It looked like Greenbay Packer fans lived in my house - nothing against Greenbay, of course - they're awesome - but c'mon! It was just so much yellow and wow was it ugly! So, Monday morning we chose a different color: a lighter version of the Cyprus, cucumber-something from True Value. It looks so much better! It goes with my apples and my new cabinets that are being installed today and I am now much happier. Now I just need my new stove...
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