I am notified that the painters will begin on Monday. In honor of the anticipated unfurrowing of my brow, I give you my best attempt at depicting the colors selected. Snatching squares of the colors from the Benjamin Moore website and elsewhere was unsuccessful.
Even on my own computer, adjusted to within an inch of my life, they didn't look right. By "right", I mean that they didn't look like the biggish 8X11 cardboards I painted with my little sample cans to check out the colors. So, what you see above is an indoor, sunny-day no-flash photo of those test cardboards. They look pretty close to the real thing on my computer, but we are likely all calibrated differently, so who knows how close they are on yours?
One advantage of this ambiguity may be that if you think they look awful, you will perhaps attribute the problem to this technical difficulty ?I really do not know why they are so blurry, I was not trying to be artistic, they are only cropped and otherwise unadjusted.
The top color is "Cottonballs", for all trim, semi-gloss. Then, Tapestry Beige (the living room), "Timothy Straw" (the guest bedroom) "Stuart Gold" (the dining room and the back wall of the living room bookcases, which are otherwise trim color), and "Nottingham Green"(my bedroom, much of this color appears in my Chinese bedroom rug).
I smiled when I read your remarks about the 8x11 samples you painted - I ALWAYS do that. I've also got a folder of them to reference for my own records as well as lending to colour-researching friends.
Can't wait to see the results of the painting and of course, you'll be moving within about a week. I'm glad you've got help for the packing.
Foodelf
Posted by: Foodelf | November 18, 2009 at 07:28 AM
Well, a week contains seven days, so for want of a more specific actual moving day, let's say the magic number is . . . . . SEVEN!
Posted by: Edward M. | November 19, 2009 at 03:34 PM
Hello friends. I am in a frenzy of packing and throwings-out of stuff, last minute free-cycle postings, and arrangements. I am going over tonight to get my first look of painting in progress, and with luck may get a few photos to post. The daylight will be gone, though, so they will have to be flash, I guess.
Moving days are Monday and Tuesday, but won't have internet access there until Wednesday at the earliest, when cable-guy is supposed to come hook me up and plug me in. In the interim, I can still get calls, texts, and email on my cellphone-if I remember to keep it properly charged up.
Posted by: Lindy | November 20, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Best wishes for an easy move. How are the cats holding up? I assume you will be preparing a full Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday?
Posted by: Lynn D. | November 20, 2009 at 02:48 PM
Hello Lynn.
Thanks. The cats are already bonkers, and they haven't even seen a stranger yet, or been inconvenienced in any way. They are justifiably puzzled over the suitcases being out, yet empty, and keep sniffing them disapprovingly.
Mostly, though, I think they are miffed with me because they have deduced that these carryings-on are in no way designed to meet their needs. All other activities are viewed as mildly annoying, at best.. They seem to be getting on each others' nerves as well.
I am contemplating many different possibilities for dealing with them in the moving process, and (gulp) actually moving them. All of the possible choices are fraught. Still, the day will no doubt come where all of this is water under the bridge.
Lucky for me, my brother is a fine cook, and will be taking the turkey reins (picture that, eh?) this year . I have traded him for XMas eve.
Posted by: Lindy | November 20, 2009 at 03:49 PM