Tip One! Don’t repaint your new house. Simply ask the previous homeowners to leave any leftover paint behind for touch-ups, especially since 99% of the walls appear to be the same shade of beige.
Seven cans of paint, countless head tilts, squints and nervous breakdowns later, discover that you purchased your home from a crazy person who REALLY LIKED BEIGE. IN ALL OF ITS MANY MANY FORMS.
Make yourself a handy what-paint-is-where guide on a plank of wood, and then smack yourself in face with it.
Tip Two! Instead of purchasing one large coffee table, buy four of those little “bunching” tables and arrange them JUST SO in front of your couch. Center them. Space them out. Wait. That one is a little farther away…hmm. Should these two be closer to the couch? Should they touch or….no. They should probably be a couple inches away from each other. There.
Congratulations! That looks great! Now get ready to spend the rest of your life with tables that actually look like this, especially after your toddler discovers how easily they move and decides that walking AROUND tables is for suckers:
Tip Three! Spend a lot of money on throw pillows. Get your pet an adorable coordinating doggie bed. Trust me; it’s fabulous and totally practical.
September 17th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Another thing about all of those shades of beige- they are typically named after food- biscotti, peach nectar, apple crisp, peach cobbler, white chocolate, bavarian cream, vanilla milkshake, rich cream, vanilla ice cream, toffee orange, cream froth, latte, kahlua and cream, sugar cookie, summer peach, sweet salmon (ew), butter pecan.
These are not paint shades! These are gelato flavors!
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Is that a birdcage?
September 18th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Too funny! And I’m agreeing with the previous poster who noted the food flavors of colors. NEVER shop for paint on an empty stomach!
September 18th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
I think this fits well with the theme. Hey, people have to BUY paint and have to GO SHOPPING to do it. In the FALL. At Jacque Penneys.
September 18th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Is that a look of disdain of Ceiba’s face? Priceless!
Re: birdcage. My guess is that’s a fireplace screen.
Also a technical question. I presume you will be posting regularly to this page. If yes is there any way to get an rss feed just to your stuff?
Thanks.
September 19th, 2007 at 2:53 am
I don’t have a toddler, so the table set up might work for me. Thank you for the idea.
September 19th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Ah yes. The coordinating doggie bed. Ours is even monogrammed. It is also currently residing under a bed in one of the guest rooms because Belle would much rather just chill on OUR bed. Diagonally. Because the reason we upgraded to a king size bed was OBVIOUSLY so she could find a way to be the only creature on it.
I do kind of love the coffee tables though.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Danielle: I can’t believe NONE of our paint shades sound remotely delicious. And let me tell you something about “Standish White.” It’s YELLOW. It’s the LEAST WHITE of any of them, and trying to figure that one out seriously had me in tears at one point.
JP: No birdcage. Fireplace screen. Although one time when I was a kid a bat flew down our fireplace, so perhaps we could consider it a batcage. Which sounds kind of awesome.
Britt: I will be posting once a week for the next six weeks or so. I have no idea about RSS feeds here, though. Sorry. (I think my stuff will go up on Mondays, but don’t quote me on that.)
Maria & PaintingChef: I don’t hate the coffee tables, actually. Sure, I spend a LOT of time straightening them, but they’re an easy way to take up a lot of space without having a gigantic table that you can’t pull closer to eat off of. Because yeah, we eat in front of the TV a lot, whatever. (Oh, they were super cheap. From Target. So I don’t care if they get completely trashed.)