I have splotches of coffee splattered on my living room walls. It’s not really coffee, it’s paint. Three big, ugly messes on my wall. I can’t blame it on my toddler or sloppy husband (not implying that you are sloppy, Dear). Nope, I did it myself. I purposely painted in three different, random spots on the wall.
That color is going to be too dark for your tastes, Tim told me after I painted the hallway a fantastic Starbucks shade.
Hmmm, you may be right, I concurred. I know, I’ll just paint a few swatches on the wall so we can try it out. Then, when I paint this weekend I will know which shade I want.
Sure enough, I agreed with Tim and selected a lighter shade of the coffee/mocha tint that lines the hallway. I even found it in the Ooops Paint section and got a great deal.
That was in December.
Well, define “this weekend.”
See the Christmas lights along the banister? Sigh.
Now, every time I take a picture in living room, I have to be creative in my framing or I end up spending way too much time Photoshopping the blotches out.
I need to paint. The gallon jugs are sitting in my laundry room, silently accusing me of neglect each time I step over it to wash some clothes.
It’s time I don’t seem to have. Or at least not quite enough of it strung together to give me the confidence to begin painting. If you also have the same problem, visit this site and hire a professional painting contractor. I’m the queen of unfinished projects. Did I mention the five windows in my living room are arrayed with exactly one curtain? And it’s one half of a curtain at that. The other side of the window is bare and drapeless. It’s tragic, really.
Maybe Sarah will help me decorate the living room – she obviously has flare!
But I have hope. Hope that summer is approaching. Hope that we will finish school (I hear my children cheering in the distance). Hope that the older kids will grab paint brushes and rush to join me. Hope that one day the windows will be dressed.
Until then I will be content to take pictures of Sarah painting and waste time reading about other people’s great decorating exploits. It seems sad to be lacking both artistic ability AND money. Either one and you can fake the other. To be devoid of both is a cruel twist of fate.
Thankfully I have a great deal of charm (and, obviously, humility) so hopefully people overlook the splotchy, “who made that horrible mess on your wall?” paint swatches and instead sit down to enjoy a cup of coffee and a friendly chat.
Either that or they had better be prepared to pick up a brush and help paint.
Kathy
Project 366 – Day 140
Mmmm…I have 4 (smaller) patches of different colour paint on my kitchen wall which I painted up there…FOUR years ago. You just don’t see things after a while, do you?
Dorothy – oh dear! I am in deep trouble. I just hope Tim doesn’t see your comment. Four years! That’s a long time. Something to aspire to. Ha! I painted the boys’ bedroom ceiling a gorgeous blue color. I spent days thinking about what I would do on their walls – checking out books, talking about different ideas, researching creative decorating themes online.
What did I end up doing? Nothing! They still have plain cream walls with NO curtains and a beautiful blue ceiling.
Can I blame it on blogging? Saps all my time and energy.
At least you finished Jack’s room.
Ladies, you inspire me to new heights! Although I did cut out a dress pattern to sew for myself in 1986, and only in 2006 did I throw out the cut pieces, figuring if I hadn’t done it in 20 years, it probably wouldn’t get done.
Curtains? Windows are supposed to have curtains? Oh. dear. :>) I have a fool proof way to make sure all those undone home projects will get done…plan to put your house up on the market in three to six months and those projects WILL get done. Hey, it’s working for us. Projects we started when we first moved in six years ago are truly getting completed. And, our house now looks exactly how I pictured it when we purchased it. Just in time for the new owners (well, pray that we have a taker as soon as we put it up on the market)…who will probably change it all anyway. :>)
Maybe you can get the kids to help you with the taping part… that usually takes the longest out of all the preparation. Then at least it’ll look like you’re preparing to paint instead of avoiding it!
We unfortunately have a beautifully painted blue room all ready to be the nursery, with some distinctive white splotches on the wall. It seems that over-zealous toddlers plus a rocking chair can tear chunks out of the wall. And Spackle is white, not a gorgeous blue.
I’m starting to really enjoy the splotches. I tell everyone who asks that they are patches of mold … and they’re useful as Rorschach tests, as well.
Four years seems a bit long, though. Maybe this summer!
Oh, we have plenty of projects like this around our house.
A hole in the family room ceiling waiting for the master bathroom to be remodeled.
A gallon of tan paint with 2 years of dust on the lid waiting to go on the front porch to finally coordinate with the new siding we had put on our house back when the paint was purchased.
The swing set in the back yard or baking a batch of cupcakes is alway more appealing than those things.
I love you, dear. Aunt Kate
Yes, we did completely redecorate both the kids’ rooms last summer. This summer we need to replace our porch which is literally rotting away. That’s the next big priority. I don’t know when we’ll have to money or time to redecorate the kitchen…I think all our friends are used to the splodges now though. {g}