Things that make you go "Heuuurgh"

[susie_flo]

Good evening fiends.  Rather tragically, it appears to be Sunday night again.  And furthermore, I am knackeroood. 

G and I have been RE-redecorating our kitchen...  (as in re-doing exactly what we did last weekend).  Unfortunately the results last Sunday night were disappointing...  so we bit the bullet and went back to Homebase for a different colour and started all over again. 

I don't have any decent pics of the previous colour, but it was a sort of custardy yellow.  What I really wanted was a sludgey grey/green... like a dark, muted sage.   However nobody in the universe appears to make the colour I had in mind...  or at least not in a paint that is easily available and suitable for kitchens.  So having dithered briefly over a colour called Overtly Olive, we went for a colour called Sage Leaf that is very green indeed.   A little too green, imo (a bit like being in the middle of a forest).  But what the hell - I think the end result looks rather nice nevertheless.









One reason it took so flipping long was because we did a fair bit of reorganising alongside the painting.  This included sorting out our collection of weird lesser-used alcoholic beverages...  the sort that come in bright colours and sweet flavours and are only used on those random summer evenings when you get home from work and have the bright (and later regretted) idea of drinking cocktails all evening...

A few pics on Flickr...   www.flickr.com/photos/susanflockhart/sets/72157623495191461/

Well... that's about all I have the energy to write, apart from adding a warm thank you to those of you who texted, emailed or FB'd me about Jess.  I appreciate that most of you are pet lovers and know exactly how it feels to lose one.  It has been necessary for me to keep busy this weekend, but god, I need another weekend to recover.  Boo hiss for it being work tomorrow...

Comments

[gylfinir.livejournal.com]

What a lovely colour - and beautiful kitchen/flat! *interiors envy* :)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

You're kind. It's the only decent sized room in the whole flat... (and believe me it won't stay tidy like that for long!)

[gylfinir.livejournal.com]

Oo, but it looks very lovely indeed :) And I really like your art too...

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

That's nice!

Finding out that Homebase do very reasonably-priced mix-your-own-colour for kitchen and bathroom means that my bathroom is now painted the colour of my favourite lipstick :-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that sounds fantastic! Pics or it didn't happen ;-)

I spotted the mixing service yesterday and was v. tempted to get some made, but it clashed with my impatience to get the job finished this weekend... and the impatience won.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks. I must confess our kitchen is one of the best rooms. It's oddly large for such a small flat. Also I did try to take pics without clutter in them ;-)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

That colour really works.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Thanks :-) I like it in artificial light... (it's scarily green in morning light)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Lol! Me too... especially if I go ahead and attack the brightly coloured liquids

[steer.livejournal.com]

It looks absolutely great! Your place is so welcoming but also so very you* (plural) and I think this makes it even more so.

* The kitcheniness is you... the flatscreen with you shouting "MAN!" to fix your futuristic streaming multimedia extravaganza is G.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And you're right - the logisitics of the big screen is definitely G. I am merely happy to be a consumer of the tech, advising on my requirements and shouting MAAAN when it stops working. :-)

I should mention that a lot of the kitcheniness is also G... given that he is chief chef. Especially the knife rack... anyone would think we were moonlighting as a knife-throwing double act! (I am mainly responsible for the introduction of relentless clutter).

[childeric.livejournal.com]

Wow, that looks great! I have kitchen envy!