My very tall friend Garbear came over to help me paint. Painting with tall people is the best.
Despite the fact that I bought a sample of this paint color and painted a large swatch, it still ended up different than I wanted. The swatch was gray with a purple undertone; it was perfect. When we actually painted the entire room I got lavender. It’s pretty but it’s not exactly what I wanted.
painted in great swaths across your ceiling. It looked terrible. Until I figured out the sheen mix-up (and I’m going to blame MetroPaint for mislabeled paint, not the beer we were drinking. BEER DOESN’T MAKE BAD THINGS HAPPEN.) I was thinking that Garbear was a spectacularly untalented painter. I assumed he was pressing harder with the roller or something, which doesn’t make any sense. I wish I could say that this was the last time I made this mistake, but after three months in the house I’m realizing that half the bathroom door is shiny . . . and the closet (which I hit with a second and third layer of what I thought was flat) has some shiny spots where I accidentally touched up with semi-gloss. AGAIN.
Seriously, keep your semi-gloss and flat paint in different zip codes. Or maybe ventilate better than I did? Addled brains do not lend themselves to good decisions.
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