We've been having some work done on our house. Kris asked the workman to also repaint our guest bathroom. When it came time to paint, I had a discussion with the painter.
"Would you like pink?" he asked, hopefully.
"No! Not pink!" I replied. Honestly, I don't even like the pink tile to begin with, and I like the blue tile in the "bak" (water reservoir you can see in the picture) even less. But anyway, "I want white," I continued, "But not very white. More like cream," I said, pointing to the cream colored walls in the hallway.
"Ok," he replied, and headed out to buy paint. He returned and painted the bathroom. But he finished late and I had to leave quickly as soon as he was done. So I just left the house quickly and did not check the bathroom until the next day. When I looked in the bathroom the next day, I found SMILEY FACE YELLOW colored walls! I couldn't believe it! Surely he didn't misunderstand me. I was very clear.
Later, Kris talked to the worker about the paint. It went someting like this:
"You painted the bathroom yellow."
"Yes!"
"But Jana wanted CREAM."
"Yes, but that is just too much cream. So I painted it yellow."
Pause.
"But Jana wants CREAM."
LOL I will eventually get my cream colored bathroom walls, but for the time being, this is what the bathroom looks like. It is SMILEY FACE YELLOW and therefore reminds me to SMILE!
I need a "not funny" button and a "don't like" button! I wanted to paint my craft room a PALE butter (real butter not margarine) color. I told that girl and did she pick out pale no she picked out smiley face yellow. Yeap that girl was me and I had to live with it for too long...
ReplyDeleteNow the craft room is a pale fawn color, Awwww so relaxing! So here is to when you get your cream colored bath.
PS if you drop a few heavy things in that bak it will break a few tile and then you can change it to cream as well. HAHA I am bad!!
another thing that pink and that blue look really familar! Like E's bath blue and the pink that is hiding under all the layers of paint in C's bath!
Keep Smiling!
Ha! Well sure would be fun if "that girl" could come help me with our remodeling/decorating :)
Deletesame thing happened here with some wood furniture we bought. It was a coffee table and 2 chair/benches. The table was stained dark, the chairs stained light but needed to be re-done anyway. So we asked if they could re-do them with a dark stain so that the 3 pieces would match. When we came back to pick them up, we had a dark coffee table and light chairs. "They wouldn't look good with a dark stain; they look better with a light stain." okaaaay. But we wanted them with a dark stain and you agreed to a dark stain.... when you come visit us, i will show you the 2 light-colored chairs - we just keep them in a different room from the coffee table. :)
ReplyDeleteLOL can't wait to see your light chairs. :)
Deleteso glad you can smile about it! we have some crazy paint colors here, too... :)
ReplyDeleteWe just have to hold our "decorating desires" loosely don't we! lol
Delete