So you were expecting a picture of a painted house, you thought maybe you were going to read about the hallway color, no you are not, there is big trouble in little Rhody. The house was finished being primed as of Saturday, I am mortified that I have been through 2 more batches of color and I am not sorted out with the color, the Minister of Paint is disgusted with me but not more than I am with myself. Called up my best favorite gay from Manhattan and he drove up to the rescue. We drank too much, visited antique and thrift stores all the while looking at house colors and it was decided that in fact my commitment issues were preventing me from choosing colors. Feel like puking.
25 October 2009
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A few more suggested labels for you: indecision, panic, self-doubt ... though you seem so sure of yourself, in general!! How 'bout going with first instincts?? They're usually correct — not just in paint colors. Thinking is such a problem...
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ReplyDeleteI spent 25 years as a commercial interior designer and restored homes and landscapes for fun. At times I would fall in love with a color, a palette of color, I immersed myself, spending endless hours and days looking and touching the color charts I made, I collected fabric and articles around me placing them throughout multiple environments’ (including the car, notebooks, desks,), so I could ponder and ruminate over a beloved color palette, which I knew intellectually was totally inappropriate for the application, completely illogical, yet I needed my fix of romance with the play of the colors.
ReplyDeleteEventually I would call someone in to slap me out of it, so I could proceed. After my illicit affair, I needed a touchstone, to redirect my energy, a fabric, or photograph that held together a synergy of colors with the project I was working on, (and loomed large toward the completion date).(Once when I was learning faux painting i fell so in love with the paint, the techniques, the pleasure of fresh paints that I painted the shoes by the door, as I painted my way out of the room).
I hear you!, you have almost completed the hyper-baric-oxygen-therapy component of a passionate romance with a group of colors for your house restoration. You're a true artist, heart and soul, being in passion, having a romance, Attach to Nothing then look, Love is all around this project thankyou for opening up our awareness to great passion. Katherine
So much DRAMA........It's only a color......
ReplyDeleteRestorations sometimes call for the original paint scheme!
Thanks for the laugh. I have some commitment "issues" as well, so I can empathize.
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