She’ll use it to paint her living room a beautiful shade of
dove gray and the ceilings and baseboards a pristine white.
Then, she’ll realize that the freshly painted, pristine
white baseboards and ceiling make the white spindles on the stair railing look
dingy and dirty, so she’ll decide to paint those, too.
But, she is lazy and she won’t want to paint around the wooden railing, so
she’ll just paint the whole darn thing white.
When the stair railing becomes a crisp white that matches
the baseboards, she’ll notice that the front door now looks dingy and not very
fresh, so she’ll paint that next. Only, she will be sick of white paint by this
point, so she will want to paint it red.
After many coats of red paint, she will love the new door,
but she will think, “Hey, this door would look even better with a colorful
wreath hanging on it,” even though she has never before had a wreath hanging on
the inside of her front door.
So, off she will go to Hobby Lobby to purchase a wreath and
flowers.
When she has covered the wreath with a spray of colorful
fake flowers,
she will realize that the table that sits inside the front
door is looking very shabby and not quite up to the standards of the rest of
the room,
so she will paint it
black.
Once it is spray painted black, it will need some new knobs
on the drawers, so she will go back to Hobby Lobby to buy some pretty red glass
knobs.
When the living room and hallway are brand spanking clean, it will hit her one day that while the walls in the kitchen don’t really need
to be painted, the white trim and doors in that room look awful and scuffed and
dirty. (And she will not want to show a picture of THAT!).
So she will scrub them clean and paint those next.
Next, she will decide to paint the walls in her son’s
bedroom since it is the only children’s room that hasn’t been painted recently.
If the walls are going to be freshly painted, then she will
know that of course, the baseboards and doors must be freshly painted as well.
When the room is finally finished and the walls are a
soothing shade of blue that evokes memories of warm Gulf of Mexico waters and
the furniture has been returned to the room, she will want a new bedspread for
the bed, even though the old one matches just fine.
So she will buy a new bedspread.
She is frugal however, so she will buy a $40 bed-in-a-bag set
from Walmart that includes a comforter, set of sheets, and a pillow sham.
Once the new bedspread is placed on the bed, she will
suddenly realize the white blinds covering the windows look terrible against
all the new white trim, so she will go to Home Depot to buy 2 new blinds.
When the room is finished with all new and old things back
in place, she will pour herself a cold glass of wine, stand outside the room
and admire all of her hard work. She will think to herself, “Whew, everything
is finished now!”
And then...she will sigh a big sigh, wipe the sweat from her
brow, glance into her bedroom and realize that she really is very tired of the
yellow paint and green flowered wallpaper border in her bedroom that have
graced it’s walls for the last 14 years.
THEN...she will go pour another glass of wine, grab a stack
of Better Homes and Gardens magazines, settle into her favorite rocking chair
on the front porch, and scour their pages for bedroom paint color ideas.
And then she will realize that if she is going to paint her
bedroom, of course, the doors and trim and ceiling will also need to be
painted. And so will the bathroom walls, doors and trim….and then the bathroom will need a new curtain...
No comments:
Post a Comment