I’m bored of the colors in my home so I decided on a change. After deep thought and discussion with my husband, we decided on some colors: plum, cat red, canary yellow, and sky blue. This paint shop didn’t have any of these shades! All it had were just basic colors and a bunch of shades of white. Where can I get the colors I want in Halifax? —I’m dreaming of beautifully painted walls in my home
This article appears in Aug 18-24, 2011.
There’s this newfangled thing called the yellow pages. Nitwit.
Okay you go to the pretty pretty rack of colours and pick out what you want. Then you go to the nice serviceperson behind the counter with what you want. Then you paint your house with the colours he mixes for you and hope to God the increased chroma stimulates your brain cells.
OMFG, I erased my original comment because the bitch is so lame I couldn’t be bothered explaining it.
“cat red” ?
Yeah, like was said before, you get them to mix different colours to produce the one you want dum dum :P.
demon, Ginger cat has no soul either.
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Like a red cat. You know the ginger ones. That colour. but still … cat red ffs OP
colors like that would give me nitemares. hope to fuck o.p., that you never decide to become a decorater. you suck big time.
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the swatches are from a brand (be it Benj Moore, Dulux, whatever). One brand one store unless they have color match. And Walmart mixes paint for god’s sake!
sheesh.
You’re the undisputed Queen ‘O’ the links, PG!
*curtsies*
Cat red is not a color. That means used pad red is also a color, along with head cold green.
“used pad red” haha
Silly OB. Cats aren’t red they’re yellow. Sheesh.
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HOLY FUCK.
I’ve read some dumb bitches on here, but….MAN.
Red cat with fawn trim
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I brought a pretty lime green scrunchie into Canadian Tire because I liked the colour. They scanned it and made my paint the same colour. Just bring in something in the desired colour and have it scanned.
“After deep thought and discussion with my husband,”
Honey – we need to talk…..
It’s… It’s the colour of the walls….. in the (breathe)
in the … the kitchen
What are you painting?? A fucking rubix cube??? What a ridiculous colour scheme. I wouldn’t paint the basement of an outhouse those colours.
I laughed my ass off at this post – we haven’t painted our interiors since we moved here, going on 16 years. I call our place ‘rustic and antique’ – a fine layer of dust protects these valuables while the spider webs in the ceiling corners represent the intricacies of nature. Plus we saved a shitload of money.
Use mirrors on your walls. Gives the illusion that your place looks bigger. Just avoid walking into yourself.
My mom’s an interior designer by trade.
She’s ALWAYS doing something to her apartment. Next up is this funky wallpaper on one wall in the living room and new countertops, a new sink and a new faucet. I *think* she’s considering new light fixtures as well. I found a sparkly chandelier (http://www.margotaustin.ca/storage/1b1518b…) that I’m considering putting in my room to replace the ugly ass ceiling fan (though, the fan’s in white so it’s not horribly hideous).
And I’m regrouting my bathroom tiles, refurbishing a desk and I *might* paint two accent walls — one in the my bathroom and one in my room.
I also just acquired new bedding and am making two large cushion covers for two cushions I had with my old set. I’m fabric shopping tomorrow!
I’m also getting a new set of wood blinds in white for my window.
We love doing this shit.
I can’t be bothered with that decorating shit – huge waste of money in my estimation but we’re old reformed hippies so we don’t care if we use plastic milk crates for bookcases. My mother used to decorate her place in early psychotic – a smash and crash of colours that would burn the eyes right out of your head. Like my sister used to say: ‘I don’t want my tombstone to read ‘She Kept A Nice House’.
haha, too right bitch, not much of a eulogy. you would love our shack
Did you or the seeing eye dog pick the colours?
uh… canadian tire?
btw, you should try this thing i found. You can answer any question on earth in, like, six seconds. I think they call it “google” but maybe i spelled that wrong.
Uh…what’s your point iso_Kay?
when we moved into our house, our bedroom had dark turquoise walls and another room was dark red. we did keep the pink room-aka the rubber room^^
You do know that they mix paint, right?
All you have to do is take in samples of colours you like (from a magazine, an old piece of wallpaper.. etc) and they scan the colour into a computer to find the exact mix. I’m sure they do this at most places but I know for a fact that they do it at Kent Building Supplies and Home depot.
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Cat Red would be orange. Plum would be purple.
Wouldn’t any paint shop offer to mix paints to match the colours you wanted? No swatches close to those colours? Besides orange, purple, sky blue and canary yellow ARE basic colours. I don’t understand this bitch .. er complaint.
Hire a NASCAD student to paint the walls in your house. After all, that’s what they went to NSCAD for in the first place. haha.