“You didn’t actually want to paint!” I said to Rob. The realization hit me suddenly, roller in hand, mid-roll, and I froze while paint dripped down my arm. I felt terrible.
“It’s fine!” he said, but then later he admitted, “I would have just left it. But I know you. You need it nice. So, we paint.”
How great is my guy? It hadn’t occurred to him to bother talking me out of painting the entire apartment, he just sucked it up and did it.
You may take this moment to stand up and applaud my husband for his awesomeness, thoughtfulness, and wonderfulness.
Later, he was all hugs and consoling pats on the back when I had a meltdown and could not paint another single stroke. After that, I was sent home to shower and relax while he spent the day finishing up by himself. I really hate moving, but since I have to, I’m glad to go through this with Rob. He is a good dude.
We painted two colors, a light slate blue that’s unusual but growing on me, and a color that I thought would be a hip modern camel-butterscotch beige, but what actually turned out to be a mustardy, baby-poop, project housing hallway tan. Bummer! I’m hoping that will grow on me, too.
The whole process of picking colors was frustrating and overwhelming. I’ve picked paint before and had both great success and horrible results. If I was doing it again, I would have borrowed the ENTIRE color deck selector from Home Depot rather than deal with traveling to Home Depot several times for a bunch of chips (at one point I had about 2 dozen different beige squares spread out on the floor of the new place and let Stu! pick what she liked; she told me to throw them all out and try again).
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According to this article NYTimes, we are part of a growing trend of people that rent in NYC and buy in the suburbs. I wish we had thought of this before we spent months and months looking for something to buy here last year! We felt a little crazy taking this unusual real estate path, but it seemed like it made sense, and a year later, I’m excited about our decision. See? I do live and learn! Just not about picking paint colors.
Here, here! Rob is awesome, but so is my Ken! Not only did Ken take care of all the arrangements for our unexpected move at the beginning of June (when our previous rental was sold out from under us) but he did the ENTIRE move BY HIMSELF…. you know, while I was traversing around the country on my #wtfami tour? Yeah, he was at home (rather, between homes) moving all our worldly goods in the heat of a Florida summer.
We both have awesome men. I know yours is first-hand… can’t wait until you meet mine, too
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Krissi
9 Jul 09 at 12:35 am
We are way lucky ladies
theambershow
9 Jul 09 at 8:37 am
I can’t wait to see what colors you decided on!
Stu!
9 Jul 09 at 9:30 am
Did you use non/low VOC paint?
And, yes, Rob is a great guy. we like him. =)
My guy is built differently though, and it suites me just fine since I’m a do-it-myself kind of girl. He doesn’t cave in to my every whim – I appreciated this more when I was pregnant and wanted to eat EVERY.SINGLE.BAD.DISGUSTING.THING possible. He asked me “do you really want that?”, and I always replied yes. He’d wait like a half-hour then ask me again and, if the crave is still there, he’d get it for me. Most of the time the, crave is gone by the time he asked me again. Just think, if he caved in the first time he asked, i would have gained at least 50 lbs during my pregnancy.
G.
9 Jul 09 at 11:37 am
We used hi VOC, toxic, smelly, cheap paint.
Rob Blatt
10 Jul 09 at 2:23 am
If this is true, then I’m surprised coz I thought it’s all about going green?
G.
13 Jul 09 at 12:56 pm