tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post2351428530402177813..comments2024-03-03T12:52:18.548-05:00Comments on Magpie Musing: No Green PaintMagpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15460136246441367993noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-53485464705982165562007-06-16T21:54:00.000-04:002007-06-16T21:54:00.000-04:00Wow, those are very organized previous owners!We h...Wow, those are very organized previous owners!<BR/><BR/>We had to totally repaint everything. The previous owners had everything pink and stencilled with hearts and bows and things.Antropólogahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01720065905801369495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-70423426422481011802007-06-15T13:48:00.000-04:002007-06-15T13:48:00.000-04:00it's a beautiful color, though. and how wise that...it's a beautiful color, though. and how wise that they left the paint chip for you. oh how i wish previous owners had done that for us!painted maypolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06446625015003854710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-80730500982228267572007-06-14T21:06:00.000-04:002007-06-14T21:06:00.000-04:00So lucky you are that it matched! We now have wha...So lucky you are that it matched! We now have what seems like thousands of color swatches in our dining room in various shades of green. None match the vision my husband has for the room. I still don't know what it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-31953737095480727892007-06-14T16:51:00.000-04:002007-06-14T16:51:00.000-04:00Sometimes even having the right color isn't enoug...Sometimes even having the right color isn't enough. I had to touch up a spot in the downstairs bath where I accidentally took the paint off with rubbing alcohol (I had no idea that isopropyl alcohol will dissolve latex paint!). At first, I couldn't find the matching can; eventually I located it, but it was all dried up. so I went to the paint store and bought another quart of the same color paint. Sadly, the same color is not quite the same color--it's just a hint grayer. Luckily, once I put the wallhanging back up, it covered most of the spot and it's only noticeable if you inspect the area closely.Mrs. Coulterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439504732028752632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-28540466488130542452007-06-14T16:32:00.000-04:002007-06-14T16:32:00.000-04:00I love the molding and hardwood floor. When I mov...I love the molding and hardwood floor. <BR/>When I moved into my place a year and a half ago, my bathroom was a really horrible pukey brown-green. I picked out what I thought was a terra-cotta peachy color. Brought it home and it was pepto-bismal pink. I even tried mixing it with some white. Still pink. Finally I gave up and just painted the bathroom with it. I mean I'm pretty girly- but not that girly. But at least it's better than puke brown and my complexion looks good against the new color!<BR/><BR/>I do like that green. Too bad it didn't match.LittlePeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17890731735785145148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-52124213997745798362007-06-14T15:38:00.000-04:002007-06-14T15:38:00.000-04:00Oh, that's too funny. Smart sellers, though, I wo...Oh, that's too funny. Smart sellers, though, I wouldn't have thought to leave the chip behind.<BR/><BR/>We decided to paint our kitchen two slightly different shades of green, the darker shade on the bottom. They looked so similar in the can that we just guessed. It turns out that the darker shade is on the top, but most people can't tell the difference, anyway.NotSoSagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04782162947524115936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-80488262192406824622007-06-14T15:36:00.000-04:002007-06-14T15:36:00.000-04:00Oh, do I love Margaret Wise Brown. I think Big Re...Oh, do I love Margaret Wise Brown. I think Big Red Barn best of all. I can recite that one from start to finish.<BR/><BR/>Nice greens, both!Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05602868040771218507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-40939827236681018172007-06-14T14:59:00.000-04:002007-06-14T14:59:00.000-04:00Oops. And you never know when a paint will dry dar...Oops. And you never know when a paint will dry darker, so I'll bet that took a lot of staring and waiting to be sure. <BR/><BR/>I like that green. We keep saying we're going to paint over out highly scuffed shades of beige, but we haven't yet.Furrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08617566957749784387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31542820.post-21130060491861277852007-06-14T10:36:00.000-04:002007-06-14T10:36:00.000-04:00You're lucky your home's previous owners chose nic...You're lucky your home's previous owners chose nice paint colors. We're in the midst of repainting (and will be for a long while, I think), and we have one electric sky blue room and one that they patched badly but never painted at all. Our previous owners were nice enough to leave extra paint and paint color info, too, but I don't think we'll be reusing their colors. Quite an adventure. I love your greens, though. I may have to borrow them.Maewen Archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02740660002168077471noreply@blogger.com