I proudly displayed my bra in Home Depot

[stoney321]

I wasn't wearing it, if that makes me seem less.... exhibitiony.

I bought some blue paint for my bathroom, because it was dookie green, and while the color would be pleasant in nature, it's most unpleasant when you're looking in a mirror and trying to apply makeup. In a nutshell: sallow! Time for a change.

Blue paint, I love frosty light blues, steely dark blues, stuff like that. Got the two gallons of blue paint home, it's a gorgeous color chip, and slap it up on the wall. Um. Huh. *head tilt* Realize that paint isn't right until it's dry, keep biting my nails, and do one whole wall. And hate it. HAAAAATE it. Have you ever used that blue tape for painting? THAT'S what it looked like, dry. Oh my GOD. It's just begging for stencils of little geese in bonnets, and a strutting rooster. It's country-cozy-kitchen, is what I'm trying to say. AUGH.

The bra. I have a beautiful bra in a frosty, icy blue (that I THOUGHT the original paint would be) and I take it in to the Home Depot. They color match that, and the guy will NOT make eye contact with me. Look, I don't have Dolly Parton-esque bewbage here, it's not like this is ridiculous, right? :D The paint was finished and dry by bedtime last night, and today I'm putting all the fixtures back up. I LOOOOVE it. Thank you, Soma bras!

When I get everything cleaned up I'll put up pictures of the GOOD color are now up! In the meantime, under the cut is a picture of the blue of AUUUGH!



Here's the original color, and this isn't really showing the true color (think more Army green.) In the PICTURE it looks like a nice taupe, but it is not. It is the sallowest of greens. Instant jaundice! (I do have a darker version of this in my powder bath, and THAT is nice. I'm wanting a brighter, lighter color in my bathroom now, though.)





Here's the first attempt at blue, and this is a NO. Again, can't you just picture some happy little clouds flitting along that? Or some duckies? Ack. It was the EXACT color of blue painter's tape once it dried. Blech.





HERE is the right blue. You can see how the light changes the tone, too, lighter to a bit darker, and I quite like it.


(that's my vanilla orchid on the left. <3)



That same wall shot from before, see the difference? And I love my robe, too. Super plush. \o/



This shot is almost Tiffany blue. No bad there!



Now I need to see if I can take the unused paint back to Home Depot and make it darker to paint my son's room. 2 flippin' gallons of paint I don't want. *head thunk* Has anyone successfully done that? (And hahaha, yeah. I'm not going to post a picture of me in the bra, so don't bother asking. *G*)

Comments

[abusing-sarcasm.livejournal.com]

Stoney, may we have a picture of you wearing the - Oh. No? Fine, then. Party pooper...

And yeah... That is BLUE paint. Eek.

[chelethechicken.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha I've never heard of someone using a piece of clothing like that to get a color comparison. I've seen people scratch off paint from their cars to do that, use nail clippings, and then a chunk off of some old building, and I've seen a lot of other wacky things, but the bra wins them all. xD

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

YEAH. It's uh... that's some blue there!

(Hahahaha, I'll take a picture OF the bra to show the awesome color match job, I'm just not that much of an exhibitionist. *G*)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

WHEEEE! I'll take my winnings in the form of floofy rabbits, thanks. ;)

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

That blue just cries out for smiley face suns and sailboats!

We painted our entire living room with a yellow that had just a hint too much blue undertone. We hated it as soon as it started going up, but persevered, hoping it would miraculously get warmer once it dried...It was on our walls for more than ten years before we finally painted over it last summer. Idiots. Good on you for immediately repainting.

[tabaqui]

Wheeeeee!

Bras, ftw!
:)

You could probably take it back and just say 'it's way too saturated blue, can you darken it to this?' and they most likely will. I mean - why not? YOu paid for it, you're just asking for more tint, and you'd pay for that, too, i'm sure....

Good luck!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

SAILBOATS!! Ahahahaha, YES. And maybe a stenciled dock scene, complete with life preservers and sea gulls! Maybe a painted starfishy? Bwah.

Oh, I cannot DEAL with bad paint, I have to fix it. (I'm a really fast painter, though, courtesy of working for my uncle's paint crew one summer.) I like - for yellow - a color Martha Stewart has in her line, Muslin. It's soft, but is a great neutral. My old house was painted that. Now I'm into taupes and true greys - my bedroom is dove grey and I LOVE it. Everything is its actual color, it doesn't pick up any tones from the wall color. \o/

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping so. I want something with a lot more grey/steel to it for my son's room. Soothing is what we're looking for here, not OH MY GOD SUNSHINEY DAY MUST RUN IN CIRCLES!! ;D

[minstrel666.livejournal.com]

Now all you need is those black lacy panties to show the clerk what kind of black you need. Next week, when you're painting the mailbox red, you can take a corset to the depot.

See how many items it takes before the clerk starts blushing so hard it glows.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHA. Excellent plan. Too bad I haven't any sex toys, that would be LOTS of fun to freak them out. :D

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

My parents' bedroom was painted that color blue. IN THE '70S.

Therefore one room in my dollhouse is painted that color blue. Because there were leftovers, of course. Another room in my dollhouse is painted the sunshiny butter yellow they used in our playroom.

I rent. Not so much with the painting. Also my bedroom is paneled halfway up two walls and all of one wall (can't remember what wall #4 is, it's mostly covered by an armoire). I take my color from the furniture.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I would offer, but somehow I don't think you need any jellybean-purple paint...

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

BWAH! No, I'm good.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

That's because the left over mod stuff from the 70s was AWESOME. No more avocado green and curry for this gal! Light and bright is how I'm rolling.

Oh, I longed for a dollhouse. I didn't like dolls, I just wanted the house to make my fingers go up and down the stairs. :D

Paneled walls? That could be cool! Too bad your landlord won't let you paint (unless you hate painting and then YAY, no reason to do something you hate!)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

My dad built me the most awesome dollhouse from a kit. He stained and varnished the floors, hung the doors on hinges, and even used brushstrokes to make textured ceilings -- one has those quarter-circle fans, another has checkerboard.

I didn't use dolls in it. I used little dressed-up toy mice, which the local independent toy store sold and which were quite the fad for tween girls in my town -- along with the earrings made from beans painted to look like ladybugs and whatnot.

Mostly what I did with the dollhouse was FURNISH it. I needlepointed an Oriental rug and made all the bed linens myself, and glued up strips of lace for curtains.

The paneled walls make my bedroom fairly dark, and I have mahogany furniture and burgundy/rose/red fabrics -- it's very Victorian bordello. despite the '50s tickytacky nature of the paneling. The painted parts of the walls are white, and it's necessary to keep my room from becoming a cave.

I don't much enjoy painting, so I'm pretty well content.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Nice blue, indeed. My hall bath is Sapphire with silver trim and an orange light-cover and rug, so as not to Zombify the guests. Blues are all tricky, but the middle one is the default "women don't really know what they want" pale blue which is also found on 1974 VW Rabbits.

Julia, wanting above all to repaint everything but getting no cooperation on moving the furniture.

[abusing-sarcasm.livejournal.com]

Okay, deal. :D

And the new blue is lovely! You would NEVER expect to see fluffy lambs gamboling across it. Yay!

[dusty273.livejournal.com]

Love the new color! It looks gorgeous!

I haven't tried darkening paint, just the opposite after my mom decided to give the girls free rein in which colors they wanted their room painted. One chose purple, the other a pink fucsia that looked more like pepto than anything else.

And while I'm all in favor of giving my daughters a choice, well, she was supposed to guide them and tell them those colors were too dark. Anyway, a whole lot of white after, the colors are still very dark, but as awful as they were at first.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, big fan of silver and blue (hence my swapping out all the original cheap-o 'brass' fixtures with polished nickel.)

If someone would move everything for me, I would paint any room, any time. I just don't like shoving things all over the place, personally.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! I LOVE it.

Oooh, my oldest girl once went with that kind of Pepto pink, too. UGH. It takes a primer to cover it before you paint, I learned. (I had to put about four coats of paint up to cover the pink!

She saw my bathroom last night and asked for her bedroom to be painted that color. THAT ONE I can do. No more pinks and greens, please!;)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Isn't it much nicer? No lambs, no ducks, no Precious Moment children scampering in vintage bathing suits to a sailboat...

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

The new color is beautiful. What a difference. Not one obnoxious stencil image comes to mind.

[marlo.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous. Kind of greeny-blue. I love it!

[jerusha]

The bra. I have a beautiful bra in a frosty, icy blue (that I THOUGHT the original paint would be) and I take it in to the Home Depot. They color match that, and the guy will NOT make eye contact with me.

*dies laughing* You are my hero. But seriously, what do they expect? They have those commercials with people bringing in random things to color match. Why not a bra?

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

oh, very pretty. Classy...like you.