My House is YELLOW!
I should not be allowed in a paint store ever again and I am really, really peturbed at Menard's! I bought 2 gallons of paint last week for the house. One yellow and white for the trim. Due to this extremely rainy weather, we didn't put it on the house until last night.
When we did, it looked extremely light. If it was yellow, it was an extreme pastel version. It didn't look at all like the house in the picture. But I thought hey, it has to go over some really dark gray paint. Shawn and I finished almost a whole side when we ran out and I was sent back to Menards for more.
When I pulled the color card. ARGH! Golden Fleece is a dark shade of off-white. What's up with that? Nothing like the house with the white picket fence in the picture! So now I have color fear and I stand there contemplating colors for at least another 15 minutes. I want yellow - a more on the pastel side, but not too bright. I do not trust the cards.
Finally I pick one and get the 7 gallons of Dusty Straw and 3 gallons of Delicate White. Not before pointing out to the Menard's guy that color chip and the house in the picture are 2 very different colors. He says it's all the lighting. I am thinking to myself this picture could only have been shot in the Caribbean for off-white to look yellow.
Anyway, I don't make it home before 10 pm so our painting has to wait until the next day.
So the weather is not exactly cooperating..it's too cold. We have to wait until it gets above 50 degrees. That means we don't get started until 10am. We put a on a second coat and while this is more yellow...its another very light yellow. Shawn asks me if this is the right color. At this point, I say yeah, because I think - I've been tricked again and frankly, don't care. I just want this house to get painted so I can sell it.
At noon, the mail comes and it reminds me to go pick up my friend's mail. I go do that and pick up some lunch for us. Shawn calls just as I am turning into the development. He hangs up before I can answer and when I call back Brianna answers. I ask what Dad wanted - she says something about the house being yellow. I think great! The house looks finally looks yellow after 2 coats.
I arrive home to a big swatch of yellow on the garage siding. No mistaking this yellow and it is THE shade of yellow on the card! Shawn is freaking, because he thinks this color is too dark. But it is THE shade. I am elated, but ticked at the same time. We go into the garage and open all the cans. 4 cans of white, 6 cans of yellow, 1 can of the extreme pastel yellow. Apparently, Menards didn't get enough yellow tint in the one of the cans.
The good news was we used that can first so now our second coat would be the right color. The bad news was that we had wasted our morning painting that color on 1/2 the house. Good thing it needs 2 coats. Sigh.
Once we start on the yellow yellow, we are feeling much better. I am impressed that Shawn did not yell at me or be mad. I would've been so it is to his credit. This yellow looks really good and by the end of the day, we have 1 coat on 3 sides of the house, 2.5 of those have 2 coats.
Tomorrow is the 2 story side and the trim(after finishing off the other 1.5 sides).
When we did, it looked extremely light. If it was yellow, it was an extreme pastel version. It didn't look at all like the house in the picture. But I thought hey, it has to go over some really dark gray paint. Shawn and I finished almost a whole side when we ran out and I was sent back to Menards for more.
When I pulled the color card. ARGH! Golden Fleece is a dark shade of off-white. What's up with that? Nothing like the house with the white picket fence in the picture! So now I have color fear and I stand there contemplating colors for at least another 15 minutes. I want yellow - a more on the pastel side, but not too bright. I do not trust the cards.
Finally I pick one and get the 7 gallons of Dusty Straw and 3 gallons of Delicate White. Not before pointing out to the Menard's guy that color chip and the house in the picture are 2 very different colors. He says it's all the lighting. I am thinking to myself this picture could only have been shot in the Caribbean for off-white to look yellow.
Anyway, I don't make it home before 10 pm so our painting has to wait until the next day.
So the weather is not exactly cooperating..it's too cold. We have to wait until it gets above 50 degrees. That means we don't get started until 10am. We put a on a second coat and while this is more yellow...its another very light yellow. Shawn asks me if this is the right color. At this point, I say yeah, because I think - I've been tricked again and frankly, don't care. I just want this house to get painted so I can sell it.
At noon, the mail comes and it reminds me to go pick up my friend's mail. I go do that and pick up some lunch for us. Shawn calls just as I am turning into the development. He hangs up before I can answer and when I call back Brianna answers. I ask what Dad wanted - she says something about the house being yellow. I think great! The house looks finally looks yellow after 2 coats.
I arrive home to a big swatch of yellow on the garage siding. No mistaking this yellow and it is THE shade of yellow on the card! Shawn is freaking, because he thinks this color is too dark. But it is THE shade. I am elated, but ticked at the same time. We go into the garage and open all the cans. 4 cans of white, 6 cans of yellow, 1 can of the extreme pastel yellow. Apparently, Menards didn't get enough yellow tint in the one of the cans.
The good news was we used that can first so now our second coat would be the right color. The bad news was that we had wasted our morning painting that color on 1/2 the house. Good thing it needs 2 coats. Sigh.
Once we start on the yellow yellow, we are feeling much better. I am impressed that Shawn did not yell at me or be mad. I would've been so it is to his credit. This yellow looks really good and by the end of the day, we have 1 coat on 3 sides of the house, 2.5 of those have 2 coats.
Tomorrow is the 2 story side and the trim(after finishing off the other 1.5 sides).
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