the colour was supposed to be this:
Dulux "Grecian Spa 3"
(as near to Pantone 1837
or robin's egg blue as I dared go!)
(as near to Pantone 1837
or robin's egg blue as I dared go!)
but instead it was a pale version of this*:
)-:
so I added a tester pot of this:
Farrow & Ball "Arsenic"
and now my paint is almost the right colour!
(*I did phone the paint mix guy, who informed me that despite the fact he'd mixed the paint it was not HIS problem and then informed me of the half dozen phone calls I could make to try and sort HIS problem out - ie letting the corporate giant ICI know that HIS paint mixing machine or its codes are wrong** etc etc) (**obviously I didn't bother with any of that, which is why I just proceeded to try and remix the colour myself) (and, yes, I know I should have checked the colour before I left the shop. . . but the paint mixer guy had already taped it up when he put the tin on the counter in front of me and I was too busy wondering how on earth I was going to manage to carry it home etc etc)
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It's either blue or green. You can decide. But pls to stop making up names.
*laughing* He just cannot handle it, can he........
I'm good with fun names. I'm even thinking making one up would be funner! (tossed that in for the cringing properties....LOL)
Gotta love paint stores..NOT.
I've yet to get what they hand me on the paper to match what ends up on my walls.
HOW that happens, dunno.....
But I'm glad for some of the errors in paint mixings.
I have the coolest shade of blue (that'll please Vicus...LOL) in the bedroom.......
Mel I'm very tempted by the blue of the hyacinths, but I'm resisting
Vicus it could also be aqua, duck egg or eau de nil - but I don't want to antagonise you
if I did want to antagonise you, I'd create a name: "restrained turquoise"
Are you buying it for the fun you can have with names, or are you actually going to paint something with it?
WARNING: According to some theories the arsenic-based colouring in the decoration of Napoleon's bedroom on St Helena poisoned him.
*wonders if there's some deep-laid plot going on at IE Towers*
PS How's the non-smoking going?
I have a problem with walls. It's that they're so much bigger than paint tin lids. However delicious the colours I choose, they never look the same when they're spread out all over a wall.
There's some special imaginative skill that makes it possible for some people to have coloured walls and it looks good. I'm sure you are one of those people.
You know, I think a Grecian Spa is suppose to look kind of muddy like that.
Too bad I'm not closer, I like to paiont and can do a real good job, and since I'm your pal, I'd do it on the cheap, (probably for nothing but a cup of tea and a scone).
I have some painting to do too, but not this week. I'm just getting back to normal around Spadoville.
Peace.
man hope all's well now that you're back home. . . if you were here helping with the painting, it'd be finished by now!
mig it doesn't, does it. . . my current painting venture is based on trying to get the paint colour to "float" on the wall - which I've sort of achieved!
Christopher I'm repainting my bedroom. . . when I moved in three years ago I chose a dark grey and silver wallpaper which has increasingly made the room look/feel like a Victorian funeral parlour. . . I'm not "in mourning" anymore, so decided it was time for a change!
the no-smoking is fine - thanks - don't even need the nicotine gum now. . . if I'd known it was going to be this easy I'd have given up a long time ago. . . having said that, I still have the odd one everynow and again (but no more than one odd one a day tho) when I'm really really really bored with not smoking
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