Monday, February 25, 2013

Just pick a color already!

With the guys squaring out and finishing off that TV cabinet space came a very interesting phone call one night. Matt, our family contractor (who is AMAZING!) called one afternoon about that. He told me he put new drywall in to even that space out, and had the guys tape and finish it all off. I was thinking, "great so why are you calling me?" He asked me what i wanted to do about painting that area. I laughed. The downstairs to our house doesn't have a single stopping point when it comes to painting. You are doing the entire office, dining room, fireplace room, 2 story living room, up the stairs and down the upstairs hallway. I was like, "fine let's just paint it all...clearly it needs to be done." Matt said, "Great! Pick out a color tonight and I will have the guys start tomorrow!" What? It's 4 o'clock and I'm still at work.

I drove over to Home Depot and picked up what must have been 100 paint chips. I brought them all home and told Jay we had 20 minutes to pick a color and get over to Home Depot while there was still someone in the paint department. I found the perfect color. It was perfect. So great in fact, that my mother-in-law used it as the main color in their new house, and my mom is using it in hers as well. We get there and I hand the chip to the paint guy and tell him I need 2 gallons to get the painters started in the morning. They could figure out how much more they were going to need when they got there.

The older gentleman behind the counter kept fidgeting with the paint machine and trying to put my color in. All of a sudden the unthinkable happened! He dropped my only paint chip behind the giant mixing machine. It was a Martha Stewart color, but I couldn't remember what shade of gray it was. What's worse? This Home Depot was different than the one I picked the paint chips up at. They were out of all of the gray and white toned paint chips by Martha Stewart. He looked at me like he didn't know what to do. He even suggested that I just walk around and pick a new color! You don't just pick a new color! It took me 100 paint chips to get to that one.

He suggested all sorts of ridiculous ways of getting my chip out from under the machine. It's back was right to the counter I was standing in front of. I could see my little chip down there just waiting to be turned into paint. He was going to try to get a leaf blower and blow it out of there. He thought about trying to get 4 or 5 guys to move the machine.

All while he is attempting to rig a way out of this situation I grabbed a pole that you typically put a roller onto when painting high ceilings. I attached some duct tape to one in, and stuck it down behind the machine while he wasn't watching. Of course, I suggested this to him twice and he thought I was crazy. Dude! A leaf blower is crazy, this is southern ingenuity!

Needless to say, with Jay's help, we got that little chip out there with our ingenious idea. The paint guy was flabbergasted that it actually worked. Too bad we got stuck at Home Depot for an hour over a couple of gallons of paint though! Jay clearly thought I had lost it. And I probably did a little bit. But, I was tired of my house being in shambles, and tired of having dust everywhere, and the only thing I could control in my life was the color of the walls in my house. And dang it if the guy at Home Depot was going to stand between Martha's perfect color and I!

I still have my little paint chip. I keep it in my make up drawer so I always know where it is. I can see it every morning, and have given the color to several people.

All I can say is women are crazy! I know it and admit it daily. But, my husband, like every other good one out there, knows if momma ain't happy ain't nobody happy!

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