Nesting - Part Two
In this day and age when the words "douchebag" and "guido" are thrown around like cheerios at a baby convention, it is important to remember who the original guidos were. Men from the 1970s who lived in dens painted avocado green. (Maybe. Maybe they lived in places that looked like vodka bars. By the way I was born in 1985.) Today I am frustrated because I may have inadvertently created a living room only someone from the 1970s could appreciate.
Half the fault goes to my landlord. Besides being colorblind, he is cheap. I can't fault him for cheapness itself. I am cheap. I buy four out of ten dresses at Goodwill. (No, more accurately, Value Village. Goodwill is for losers.) But in his cheapness he replaced the original low, looped berber carpet (which had been destroyed by his german shepherd/lab) with a 1/2 inch shag carpet. It is essentially dorm room carpet. You can lose a dime in it. It makes me want to barf. And that barf might go well with the color I painted the north wall. I took some crappy cell phone pictures, but they don't exactly represent this color so I'll try to explain. It is Behr Ultra Premium paint (primer and paint in one) color "Eco Green." It is a yellow-based, muted green just a little more shaded than their "Retro Avocado" color. Every booger I have ever seen is this color. Sometimes, I wake up in the morning and look at my north wall and I am like "OK, I can work with this. Let's just use some ultra white on the baseboards and make it like a modern combo. Let's put a starburst mirror or some white picture frames against that and it will look trendy." But other mornings I wake up and I feel like it's the ugliest color on the planet. I really need some help on this. My only friend who is not color blind (yup I have multiple) tells me the color is horrible. I am tossing and turning at night. Is it really horrible? What color should I paint over it? What color would "go" with this horrible carpet and look good in a dark east-facing room? Please ignore the 6 Shock Tops on my kitchen counter, that is just how I roll.
