So lately these days I’m fixing up the "Man-cave" and I wanted to add a touch of style to my apartment. I decide to put some of my interior finishings knowledge to good use given that I worked on a 5 star hotel and luxury apartment complex and use this knowledge to do some sprucing up on the house-to-be. (Notice I said interior finishings .... not interior design. Interior design just sounds too fruity).
The master plan was to add an accent wall to the living room ... an attention getter... but not to be too bright and cheery, because after all it is the Man-cave and I'm neither “bright” nor “cheery”. I go to the paint shop and choose a colour that I think would be good for my wall - "Moulin Rouge". On the colour card it looked like a suitable colour .... eye catching .... but yet broody ... like a French prostitutes lipstick - that's the thought that came to mind as I picked it out - Fiery, bold, seductive. But alas, the colour card seemed to have failed ...... because as I opened my bucket-o-paint I was surprised to find a strawberry milk shake colour in the tin........ "Arrrrgggghhhh ...... this is so gay" I thought ..... Not very man-cavish!
I decide to forge through with painting with my milk shake coloured paint and hope for the best. Due to my 'superior' knowledge of interior furnishing (not interior design!!) I knew that most water based paints dry darker than they look in the tin due to oxidation - (for all my fellow nerds). I must admit, I had very low expectations for the slightest degree of remote satisfaction - no amount of oxidation could bring this colour to a dark brooding red, I thought ... but hopefully the colour would be acceptably un-gay.
Much to my suprise .... the colour is "ok" ...... it is not as dark as I would have liked ...... but it is acceptable. It came out more of a bright cherry cheerleader colour than the dark, chain smoking whore colour I wanted ..... More pigtails than cocktails ... But at least my tentacles are still in tact.
P.S. ........Living alone and appearing gay is the antithesis of what any 25 year old male home owner desires. Its counter productive and not reproductive.
The master plan was to add an accent wall to the living room ... an attention getter... but not to be too bright and cheery, because after all it is the Man-cave and I'm neither “bright” nor “cheery”. I go to the paint shop and choose a colour that I think would be good for my wall - "Moulin Rouge". On the colour card it looked like a suitable colour .... eye catching .... but yet broody ... like a French prostitutes lipstick - that's the thought that came to mind as I picked it out - Fiery, bold, seductive. But alas, the colour card seemed to have failed ...... because as I opened my bucket-o-paint I was surprised to find a strawberry milk shake colour in the tin........ "Arrrrgggghhhh ...... this is so gay" I thought ..... Not very man-cavish!
I decide to forge through with painting with my milk shake coloured paint and hope for the best. Due to my 'superior' knowledge of interior furnishing (not interior design!!) I knew that most water based paints dry darker than they look in the tin due to oxidation - (for all my fellow nerds). I must admit, I had very low expectations for the slightest degree of remote satisfaction - no amount of oxidation could bring this colour to a dark brooding red, I thought ... but hopefully the colour would be acceptably un-gay.
Much to my suprise .... the colour is "ok" ...... it is not as dark as I would have liked ...... but it is acceptable. It came out more of a bright cherry cheerleader colour than the dark, chain smoking whore colour I wanted ..... More pigtails than cocktails ... But at least my tentacles are still in tact.
P.S. ........Living alone and appearing gay is the antithesis of what any 25 year old male home owner desires. Its counter productive and not reproductive.
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