hmmm...

Yeah, so, I've had this cartoon on the side of the blog for a little while but this is SO how I feel lately. Add in the fact that if I try to take a deep breath it makes me cough in such a way that my throat and chest hurt and that's how I feel today. Not fun. But anyway...

Josh took the girls out for an hour or so yesterday and in that time I was able to clean the front room, the main room and the kitchen. When they got home they tidied their bedrooms. So at least my house feels better. Now to hopefully get some laundry dry outside today.

I bought some paint sample pots yesterday at Bunnings to try out in the front/main rooms. At the moment our front room is a bluey-grey and the main room is a sunny yellow. (much brighter than I ever intended. I was hoping for a soft yellow) Since Josh is still thinking of selling the house (YAY!! one of the guys in Brisbane agreed with me and said selling would be better than renting!! So Josh is planning on that instead!!) And because I need a change (can we say nesting??) I want to repaint these rooms. Of course repainting these two rooms means repainting the hallway, bath, toilet and laundry room as well. But then after that only Catie and Emma's room will be left to paint. Their room will be similar colour to Beka's which is half-strength what our's is. At the moment I am not looking to paint the craft/spare room but if all the bedrooms are a similar colour and the rest of the house is a single colour maybe i should?? And before we move we'll probably need to paint the garage due to my little artist getting ahold of a permanant marker. But that doesn't rank high on my need list. ANYWAY... the colours I picked are Antique White U.S.A. by Dulux, Cotton Reel by British Paints and Vacant by British Paints (alphabet order left to right). I painted samples in both rooms in several places. As it dried last night I really liked the Cotton Reel here in the main room. BUT (probably due to the blue) it looks really yellow in the front room. So is it as tan as it looks in this room next to the yellow, or as yellow as it looks in the front room next to the blue, or is it somewhere in between?? The Antique White is definitely too white. Vacant looks more grey than tan and because of the colours in the bedroom I think it needs to be tan more than grey. So many decisions. Josh freaked out when I started painting the samples on the wall because he does not want to paint. I told him that he doesn't have to. I'll do it. Or wait until Dad gets here and maybe see if he'll help me. =)

So, looking at those pictures I really like the way Cotton Reel looks in this room. That's the colour of paint I want. Will I get it with that paint or is it just because it is next to the yellow? Hmmm...I'm off to ponder that while I do some laundry. clouds are moving in so let's hope the clothes get dry. Josh is running out of pants and I don't dry those in the dryer. =)