This week’s prompt over at the Carrot Ranch (www.carrotranch.com) was to write a flash piece about painting in 99 words (no more, no less). This is my late entry.
House Painting 101
Julia always liked bold, bright colors, and she was tired of having walls of cream, beige, or off-white year after year. Just this once, she and her husband picked jewel tone colors for their new home.
The living room was now midnight blue; the kitchen, burgundy, and the bedrooms, cypress green; even the den was turquoise. Still, the baseboards were painted white to match the ceilings.
Their friends and family were shocked by the boldness. “How will you ever be able cover over the paint? If you decide to sell the house?”
“We won’t,” they said. “Our heirs will.”
Nancy Brady, 2019
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Reminds me of my MIL always plain and ready to sell. This go round we painted our kitchen and one of the baths Autumn Yellow. You can always paint over to sell, but one should also, I think enjoy the when of where they are living 🙂
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We have done the same, that is, keeping it bland; however, with the home we now live in we decided to go with something more drastic. Hence, the jewel tones.
Actually, it takes more coats to paint over white walls than darker colors, theoretically. I would only change one color. I would like to paint our bathroom a brown rather than the deep green we have now. ~nan
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As most Home decorators and realtors say… It’s only paint! Go for the colors that make you happy!
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I LOVE this, for more reasons than I can list, Nan. Bravo! And thanks!
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I am glad you loved it, Barbara, and you are welcome. That makes me happy that you liked it and used the word, bravo, which is never used enough. 😉 ~nan
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The word was well deserved, Nan!
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I love that word, and use it whenever I can.
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