Put your hands in the air...

Put your hands in the air, Sweetie and back slowly away from the paint can. I love her dearly but when it comes to math, visualizing space and picking paint colors, Alexis sometimes needs to stick with her specialty... teaching history and the Constitution to unruly teen knuckleheads. I gave Home Depot strict orders not to sell her anything if they find her wandering around in the paint department staring blankly at paint samples. She still won't admit that Pepto Bismol pink is not a good color for the living room unless you live on the Hispanic side of San Antonio (she did live in San Antonio for 50 years and had lots of Mexican friends... hmmmmm?). That's the way my eyes bugged out the first time I saw the original PINK wall which was fortunately only a tinted primer coat (but I haven't had even a hint of diarrhea since).
We compromised like all happily married people do and settled on a dark rose color she picked called "Italiano Rose" for the east and west walls and a color called "Barely Pink" for the rest of the room. It's going to look GREAT. This darker rose color makes the almost white "Barely Pink" have just a hint of pink but not enough to look like Barbie's 1962 Corvette. This flash and the artificial light don't do the combo justice because the two colors really do compliment each other. This is our office... our 10' computer desk will sit in front of the windows looking out into our Tennessee woods.Jerry "Tennessee" Hawkins walked into our "Sweet Midori Green" master bathroom and made the understatement, "IT'S GREEN!" And so it is. Admittedly it took Alexis and me several days to adjust to the intense shade but the happy, tropical color has really grown on both of us. Tomorrow afternoon Howell King, our plumber - remember the guy in the tux!? - will come over and install the master vanity and toilet. I'm hoping to get the copper roofing tin affixed to the shower walls tomorrow... I hate even thinking about cutting the holes for the hot/cold knobs and the shower head.
Hopefully Ben Williams will be feeling better tomorrow and be able to come back and finish the sheet rock texturing in the hall and master bedroom. He's been very sick with ulcers... please say a prayer for him.