Although this weekend was basically an exercise in frustration, we finally have painted rooms! Our friends D. and J. came over on Saturday to help, and we painted the kitchen backsplash a lovely light blue (Behr's Tidal Pool) and the study an emerald green (Behr's Emerald Lake).
Unfortunately, the emerald green turned out to be way way too bright. It was like standing in a locker room. Or a green Skittle. I ended up going back out and getting Ralph Lauren's Alpine Pool, and we spent Sunday repainting. The room now feels like standing in the middle of a pine tree, which is exactly what I wanted. We win! I'm really, really tired today, though. We're not "handy" people in the least so painting is a huge ordeal for us. I'm thrilled with the result but I'm so glad it's over.
If you've been reading, you may remember that Raymond had found a computer desk he wanted, but OfficeMax promptly discontinued it. He's one of those people who hates change with a passion (this whole painting this has been really traumatic for him), so he was reluctant to get rid of his nasty old college desk at all. To give him credit, he did look online for desks, but just couldn't find one he was willing to exchange the old desk for.
The only one he found that we both liked was this pretty cherry, glass and chrome computer desk at Office Depot, but he didn't want to buy it without seeing it in person. I don't blame him, because the website photo is godawful.
So I spent Friday calling five different Office Depots in the area. None of them had a floor sample. By a brilliant stroke of luck, though, we just happened to stop for supper on our way to a concert Friday night, and an Office Depot just happened to be next door, and we just happened to pop in to see if they had it, and they did! He fell in love with it and I promptly bought it before anything could get in the way. It was on sale, so we were even able to get the matching file drawer so he has some storage space. We were just barely able to squeeze the two gigantic flatpacks into the Mini.
After the (second batch of) green paint dried in the study, Raymond put together both the desk and drawers. Since the desk is L-shaped, we're trying a desk configuration in the study that's different from anything we've done before. My desktop computer isn't set up yet, so I haven't processed the photos, but hopefully I'll get them up tomorrow. The whole room looks fantastic!
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Fantastic about the desk! It's sooo good that he found one he fell in love with. That helps so much when one is the sort of person who develops strong attachments to things (I speak from personal experience...)
Also fantastic about the painting! I love your description -- standing inside a pine tree is definitely way better than standing inside a green Skittle. Good for you!
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