Hey, look! It’s Chloe the Dachshund!
She’s sporting some pale gray paint on her coat today,
which means one thing at our house.
There’s a painting project underway!
I did my research + made my choices.
1. lots of pale gray,
2.massive amounts of white trim,
+ 3. glossy black doors.
Done. Handled.
No drama when G.O. + I head to the paint store.
No painter’s remorse afterward.
* * * *
But wait.
I failed to share my inspiration pic with G.O.!
How could I?
Imagine, if you will, me sharing
that I want him to paint his garage doors BLACK,
right in the middle of the paint department!
Poor guy!
I really did feel sorry for him (which kind of surprised me!)
He wasn’t swayed,
not even when I recounted every single past project we’ve done together
+ reminded him of the following sequence of events:
1. he hates it,
2. I insist,
3. we do it my crazy way,
+ 4. he loves it.
So I compromised + chose a ‘soft’ black.
I said we could try a quart of it + see.
Here ’tis ^^, on a sample board, propped against the door.
Of course, in the photo, it looks black, but it’s not. It’s the darkest of grays.
Here’s black:
Of course, now it seems like every other online photo is sporting an inky black door.
I spied these French doors yesterday
+ am now seized with the desire to paint all our interior doors black, too!
The New Victorian Ruralist
But I digress — back to garage doors:
But wait.
Isn’t this place (below) awesome?
Doesn’t that color look like ‘soft’ black?
Oh, dear.
It’s the fabulous Winslow’s Home on Delmar Blvd. in St. Louis — just west of the loop in University City.
Spend a weekend in St. Louis + go there:
Get Cardinal tickets + see a game.
Hey, I digress again!
What I’m saying is that our old frenemy, painter’s remorse, is back.
No problem, I hope not.
I’ll just head over to the Dutch colonial later this a.m.,
have another look-see + (fingers crossed! ) decide.
Stay tuned!
REDBIRD 