Let’s say, for instance, that I moved into a house that was, oh, approximately 33 years old.
And let’s say, for instance, that before I moved in said house, every single wall throughout the home had clearly been painted by a professional who took great pride in his or her craft.
But let’s just say, for instance, that the colors on said professionally painted walls were not really my favorites, that I would have preferred shades that were, oh, more neutral. Less jewel-toned.
Purely hypothetical, of course.
So let’s say – JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, NOT THAT THIS EVER HAPPENED – that I lived in that house about a year, never really giving much thought to the walls, maybe occassionally wondering what colors I would use on the off chance that I ever decided to paint the walls myself, but quickly dismissing those thoughts because THE WALLS, THEY ARE FINE, AND THEY HAVE BEEN PROFESSIONALLY PAINTED.
But then one day in this COMPLETELY PRETEND SCENARIO, let’s just say that I started to paint, oh, I don’t know, a guest bedroom.
And let’s just say that despite the fact that painting was a HUGE HEAPING PILE OF TROUBLE, the room was so transformed by the application of A COLOR I ACTUALLY LIKE that I could not stop walking in the room two or sixty seven times a day to admire the makeover.
And that I maybe perhaps just might want to paint EVERY SINGLE ROOM IN MY HOUSE NOW.
Preferably by Thursday.
Let’s just say.
So if the above scenario were in fact true, that would mean that I’ve managed to live in the thirty-three year old house for almost a year without being very bothered by the paint colors, but now – now that I’ve actually painted a room – OH MY WORD I CANNOT STOP WITH THE PAINTING, and not only that, I CANNOT REST UNTIL ALL THE PAINTING IS DONE.
I mean, that’s how I would feel if anything even remotely close to these events had ever happened in my life.
But clearly I wouldn’t know anything about any of that.
I like your style. You’re crazy like the rest of us here in blog land. It’s defintely something my mom (rest her soul) or my husband would do. However, he doesn’t do a good job on taping off or getting the corners of the ceiling done. One time he picked a horrible prison blue. Oh, also he had to, just had to take all the popcorn off the ceiling once. I think the people now living there still get the dust from that! Blessings for a wonderful Thanksgiving.
You have clearly lost your mind.
And don’t forget we want pictures of every single room.
By Thursday.
:)
Leslie
Let’s pretend that you WOULD know something about painting every room in sight and that way you can invite me over ’cause Honey, I love to paint.
Oh, how you sound like me. Again, when we paint I block a whole weekend, but I want to do the whole house THAT weekend. My family, in their wisdom, holds me to just ONE room. But, just reading makes me want to go grab some paint and pick a room.
Isn’t going to happen right now, but I’m itching to do it!! :-)
OH, and we do want pictures of each room. ;-)
Are you cooking on Thursday?? Because, frankly my dear, you are insane.
But I bet it will look beautiful!
This just shows your strength. You looked at said ugly walls for a year before the twitching started. A.whole.stinkin.year!! But who’s counting? Feelin’ yer pain!
You are making me want to paint! I know if I start, I’ll be in the same place you are, I’m not sure my husband could stand it this week. :) So, I’ll just wait in great expectation for your before and after pictures. hint hint. :)
blessings!
I wouldn’t know anything about it — or about the urge to paint your dining room the DAY before the FIRST Easter dinner being hosted in my – I mean YOUR new house.
No Mam’, not me.
I know the feeling–but unless you can manage to host Thanksgiving Dinner in that guest room, you must FIGHT THE URGE!! At least until Saturday, so then you could have the whole house done for Christmas! :)
If this were to ACTUALLY happen – then we’d need proof in the form of photos that you weren’t just making it all up.
My SIL is currently having her kitchen re tiled.
They started on Monday, they are still working on it today and will hopefully finish up on Wed.
The entirety of her family (20 or so of us) are all going over there for Thanksgiving.
She is doing all the cooking too, by her demand, in a kitchen currently occupied by many grungy construction worker types, and a tile saw.
Perhaps you two are related in some way?
:o)
You can’t help it, it’s hereditary.
I don’t suppose you have any hypothetical pictures, do you? I want to see the pretty new room.
I can relate!! I moved in a house with wall paper in every room!!! Not just wall paper but sometimes 2 with a border in most of the rooms. It has taken me almost 7 years to go room from room removing the wallpaper and repainting. I would have done it all in a week if I could but removing the wallpaper is about as much fun having dental work! Good luck, I wish I could help because I love to paint. You should see my house, every room is a different color! Happy Thanksgiving!! :)
Been there, done that!
Do you suffer from…just a touch of…OCD? LOL!! I’m not a professional or anything, but this sounds a wee bit obsessive compulsive. It would be fine if not for the “by THURSDAY” part. :)
On the bright side, by Thursday you will have burned so many calories that the mandatory over-eating for Thanksgiving will be guilt-free. Hmmm…sounds like a plan.
I was trying to gather ideas for a post on how to have a stress-free Thanksgiving. I think I need to find room on the list for “don’t painting your whole house that same week.”
I think we had the same thought this week! However, before I could paint, I had to strip the wallpaper off the walls. Thinking that it would be a very easy task, I started with the half-bath off the laundry room. About 20 minutes into the project, I realized that the original owners stuck the wallpaper right to the drywall. Now, my two day project has turned into a 2 week project – for my hubby to finish (without complaint) over Christmas break! Good thing no one’s visiting over Thanksgiving:)
Cracker Barrel has a Thanksgiving Meal with all the trimmings on Thursday – just in case y’all need to get away from the paint fumes to enjoy your cornbread stuffing…
Step away from the paintbrush…
I think that’s why my DP has me banned from the paint dept. at Lowe’s or Home Depot until we can afford to do the whole house. He knows I’d never be satisfied with one room after we’ve been living with the same colored “new house” neutral for 16 months.
I’m with Cheryl . . . find somewhere to escape the paint fumes and enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner.
Happy Thanksgiving, Sophie!
When I was 7 months pregnant we bought a house that needed the kitchen and bathroom completely stripped down to the studs and re-done. We also (in a burst of what I called “extreme nesting”) added an entirely new bathroom, refinished the wood floors and painted EVERY ROOM IN THE HOUSE. We moved in on a Saturday, I delivered on a Monday. Let’s just say I understand.
I LOVE to paint. If I lived closer, I’d be over there in a jiffy to help you, really!
I love to paint. I used to do it for money (and hand wallpaper)
But for you, I’d do it for free ;0)
Blessings,
K
Oh you kill me! Good thing the whole nutso scenario is only pretend:)
Good luck with that!
I did this sort of thing to my husband on Sunday. What started with just a couple rooms of carpet cleaning turned into every room being thoroughly shampooed and rearranged. He asked me what happened to the original plan… All I could say was “Welcome to Andrea”. Good thing he loves me so much. :)
I do love the painting you did in your guest room… Have fun being “BooMama”.
-Andrea
So when will we be seeing the hypothetical pictures of the newly painted walls in your 33 year old home?
Painting is an evil thing. You cannot just do one room, because it looks so nice, and the others look so cruddy. It could become a never ending cycle!
I’m praying very fervently that your mama or Sister will have pity on your OCD tendencies and will invite you over for Thanksgiving… because, girl, you are just a tad crazy. I say take Molly and Shannon up on their offers, we’ll pitch in and get a couple plane tickets, and get you some help over there.
On second thought, maybe that wouldn’t be such a good idea. I have a hunch the painting might not actually get done in that case… ;)
It’s amazing how inspiring a simple color update can be. We’ll be in our house 3 years next month and we have four rooms left to paint, all upstairs. I’m hoping to get it done by Christmas so we don’t go into the new year with any color projects.
Just for a little minute in that scenario imagine that IF that were to happen, you then discovered to your incredible disbelief that you were actually not any good at painting. And everything was in all sorts of painting preparation disarray. Because that may or may not have happened here. One time. Or four.
Once that proverbial redorating ball gets rolling, it is indeed hard to stop it.
I just keep looking at my Christmas decorations thinking about all the things I would like to add over the years. Or all this year actually. But I just can’t bring myself to spend my entire gift budget on decor. Even though it would be great fun for me, I’m guessing opening empty boxes would be slightly disappointing for my kids.
Isn’t that how these always work? And that, my friend, is how I ended up with a $250.00 floor lamp yesterday. It escalates the longer you’ve been in said house. I’ve been in mine 6 1/2 years and the “I can’t take it any more’s” get more extreme and more pricey.
You, my dear, are funny…
:)
We’re gettin’ ready to start the painting process here on Friday (as in the day after the day after damorrow) and let me tell you, the guys at Sherwin Williams have just gone ahead and set up a cot for me right there under the Colour Centre. But the biggest news is they’re going to name a NEW colour after me – It’s called “Love that Ambivalance.” A jewel-toned neutral, (I know! But it’s just that versatile!) it will go with the carpet, the trim, the countertops and cabinetry, AND it will even bring out the gold flecks in your irises. (Bats eyelashes.)
So Please, BooMama, hold off on the painting until this new hue is released (so saturated with ambiguous color, it is, that it will cover ANYTHING in just one coat with NO PESKY PRIMER needed.)
In stores Jan. 1.
I don’t care what anybody says, you’re not OCD at all. No, ma’am, not at ALL! ;o)
Try to get some paint-splattered rest here and there, Compulsive Girl.
Oh, and have a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving, Sophie, Sister and Family.
Love and hugs,
Diane
I love to paint! We moved in 2 years ago and I “fondly” refer to the overall color scheme throughout the house as dirty seafoam fungus colored.
That about sums it up!
Well, except for the country blue and rose in the master bath… Bleah…
I get that SAME bug! We have been here two years and already extended family members are commenting on why I haven’t painted, yet (we have lived in three other houses that I painted every room in). The walls are all a beigy off-white color except one that is a beautiful faux-leather-bound-book-looking-dark-green. And so far, I am happy. We’ll see what happens by Thursday :)
Have fun! Wish I could help!!
Holly
Hypothetically speaking, if this person had a sister who was also very crafty then maybe this sister could possibly come a little early (like NOW) and help her OCD sister out just a little. Then maybe there would still be time to eat turkey on Thanksgiving. All hypothetically of course!
The urge to paint is some latent gene, lying dormant, until one day you hit up on the perfect color. You cannot go back sister. The paint store will beckon you like sounds of Sirens to sailors.
Paint covers a multitude of sins!
I am an admitted painting fool. Welcome to the club.
In Him, Joanne :O)
Just don’t paint Howard.
I love to paint, too! Can I come? :)
And just how many rooms have you painted already…
I think you are perfectly normal,you have a gift that requires you to paint to fulfill it.And OOH I LOVE to paint.I was just pondering my projects for my winter vacation/downtime from work.I think I’m going to start with three rooms.Then if I”m still feeling painty I’m going to repaint two of our bathrooms.When you’re done it feels like a new house for just a fraction of the cost and no boxes or movers to deal with!
It’s the latex fumes. It will wear off.
Seriously, there is nothing more addictive than a fresh coat of paint. It just makes everything so… fresh!
This is why I have grown to love blogging: You find out that you are not as weird as you think you are after all these years! Alot of people decide to paint their whole house after having a successful change-of-color experience! No rehabilitation time needed….I’m not alone!! We MUST see pictures (made in your free time, of course).
I am right there with you!! I have removed the wallpaper from my dining room, re-painted it, shopped for new home decor so that of course, everything would match, and re-covered the chair cushions. ALL IN THE PAST FIVE DAYS!!! I’m not even sure how I am still able to type. And I can’t even wait to paint the hallway. I bought the paint this morning because I might just want to do some painting Thanksgiving afternoon while everyone else is…..SLEEPING!
Thank you! A deep belly laugh is good for what ails you!
I’m cracking up here!!!!
I HATE painting, but love the final outcome. I need to paint some of the rooms in my house too. Maybe that will be one of my new years resolutions….
I agree with Antique Mommy. It is the paint fumes which are addling your brain.
Just think what a paint party would be like at Boomama’s place, girls…..we could all turn up to help! (Well, that woudl be a little difficult, seeing that I live across the ocean, but the thought is good!)
This is so funny on so many levels… where to start?
My entire house is beige. You were endowed with all the decorating genes that my sister and I lack (although she was blessed enough to marry into some great ones!).
One of my best friends is an interior designer for Whole Foods. You’d think I’d have her pick my colors, wouldn’t you? Yeeeeeaaaaah. You’d think.
Weirdest thing: I can picture a finished bead or piece of jewelry, but a room? Not a chance. My hat is off to you, Sopie. I’d love to see the results.
I have ya beat! When we moved into our house, the hall bath, the one I use to get ready for work each morning, was a horrible hot pink-peach-tangerine color… nothing my eye had seen before. The color was basically glowing on the walls that for the 3 1/2 years that I lived with it that color (YUP. 3 1/2 YEARS…) I thought I had perfectly pink skin and wore barely any foundation! Now that the walls have been muted, I realize that I have NO natural color in my face… and I’ve gone thru more foundation in the past 2 months since the color change than I did in those 3 1/2 years! feel better? :)
Okay, so let’s say the walls in your house that you’ve lived in for over 28 years have been painted and repainted many times…but the same shade….Antique WHITE!!!! And to think I thought it was the choice of colors…Oh! My! So, not bing one that cares to paint or even wants paint, the color has not changed! (We always hire someone to do the painting!!) And yes, my grown girls (and others I’m sure!) absolutely hate it!! (I do too for that matter but have not a creative bone in my body nor the wherewithal to start!!)
Proud of you!!! We’ll definitely want to see the pics after the finished product!
LOL! That remodeling gets you every time! You think…it’s okay, then you start and then you can’t stop! Been there, done that! You could have picked a better time of year though;)
Happy Thanksgiving!
so riddle me this, oh clever batman? how awful would one wall or a pretty turquoise look in a room with 3 other white walls, but with an OLD dusty blue carpet? because THAT’S what i’m itching to do.
i got started painting some time in, like, the middle of last year? or, maybe the beginning of this one. and i got as far as priming the yellow living room wall to a base white, and, that’s the way it’s stayed. i’m EVENTUALLY going to paint the walls a camel color, with the wall behind the tv being a deep warm red. i think. lol. *sigh*
Boo…is it time for more “Happy Medium” shampoo????
Woa, there … missy … you just splashed me with some buttery-yellowey-painty goodness, and that’s just not acceptable.
Unless you’re going to paint my rooms also.
By Thursday.
Can you clean my house, too? That would be just lovely. Thanks. I’ll pull out the bon bons and wait for you.
CRAZY NUT!
Hill-air-ree-us! And crazy, girlfriend.
I got you beat. Since the day that we put a bid on this house on July 5, 1995 I have hated the wall paper in the kitchen. Shortly after we moved into the house in August of 1995 I decided that the bathrooms needed to be redone – the wall paper in the 2nd bath needed to go and the master bath needed both the wallpaper to go in the vainity area and the tub/toilet area needed to be repainted. In October of 1995 I stripped off the wallpaper in the master bath (it took 2 days not 2 hours), primed the wall, textured the wall, primed it again and then painted the entire bathroom a beautiful ever-so-pale blue and decorated the whole thing in a fish motif. I even did a fish wallpaper border up at the top of the wall. It took me an entire weekend and 3 days after work (pre-children).
12 years later I’ve yet to do the kitchen or the other bathroom even though EVERY DAY I look at it and cringe.
For a 20th anniversary gift I’m going to ask DH to pay to get it done for me. Although I’ll do the finish in bath #2 – I’m gonna trim around the whole room (top, bottom, around the mirror, etc) with light green and dark green handprints done by the kids – it will look like ivy (I think/hope)!
One word: Medication ;)