Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Not Hemingway...

On Monday I was extremely excited and I announced all over Facebook how I was done and over my adobe colored walls in the sun-room. I had found a new color and I bought the Aloe color. A cool, tranquil color that was supposed to relax me into a state of oblivion all while it would make my space airy and jovial. A color that reminded of the ocean at mid-morning in South Beach. A color that held so much promise. I thought of Hemingway and his Key West house and the color seemed to be one of my greatest ideas.

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The expectations of the paint color could now be considered as the worst decision I have made thus far in our marriage.  Not only does he hate the color I hate it as well. The room looks cold not cool and sterile not airy. Reminds me of  the operation room I was in during my last C section.




Maybe I should have thought of make up since during the early 80's when I was learning to apply makeup I was boxed in the Autumn category. All shades of orange, bronze, eggplant, gold and yellow. I wanted to be a Winter girl so badly, all cool and collected.  Autumn was assigned to me
by the pages of Cosmo and the color test it had on the pages that season. I took my colors and the season and with much resignation I accepted the hues of the Autumn harvest.


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Now I no longer stand in front of the walls and wonder the many reasons as to why the cool color did not blend in. I, that is a bit more like Hank Moody than Ernest Hemingway. I, the fiery Latina that can longer deny her wild spirit and should express it with warm colors. I no longer pretend to be a Winter or Summer girl.



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I will spend the weekend with those walls in hopes like some say I might grow into it but my decisiveness and stubborn soul knows a thing or two about wait and sees...

In the meantime we blow bubbles, we clean up and spruce up. All in the name and in search of a peaceful lazy summer season even if it doesn't include the color of Aloe.


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So have you ever chosen a hideous color? How did you fix it or did you just live with it?

Happy Midweek.

12 comments:

  1. I can so relate to wanting to be a certain way while denying my real colors. It's so much more beautiful when we embrace our real colors


    I say repaint! xxxxx

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  2. The problem lies in not only the color, but in choosing just one. You dear muchachita are an everchanging blast and flash of intense colors. Try a faux paint technique. I can soooo see the crisscrosses of metallic bronze,the earthy reds and browns, going over the elusive aloe. Not a complete coverup, because there are moments of that in your being- whether you acknowledge it or not. ; ) BB2U

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  3. I totally get it.
    Maybe you can get some wall decals to spruce it up a little?

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  4. Go pick out another one! Or do a mural or the ^^ above mentioned idea. Draw waves on the walls, add in some blues. The ocean is ever changing. I'm a beach girl, my carpet is deep blue, my walls are a green sea foam type color. You have to make it work for you.

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  5. lololol Girlie I'm laughing so hard right now. If you want to experience magical shades of jade & sapphire they are waiting down here for you. lolol xoxo

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  6. laughing out loud - as always. I fully expected to love the color - too - so am devastated. Just change it! Paint over it! That's what I do :)

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  7. I chose a really pretty yellow for the guest bedroom in our first house. I thought it looked "Happy" and it would work well when we decided to turn it into a nursery one day. Only my "Happy" yellow didn't look so happy once it was on the walls - It looked like the yellow on a carmex tube of lip balm.

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  8. I would've chosen the color aloe as well ass it always seems so beautiful in magazines! :-(

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  9. I would've chosen the color aloe as well ass it always seems so beautiful in magazines! :-(

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  10. YES!!! I couldn't live with it. I like bright colors, warm and inviting. Blues and greens - they are so beautiful, but they never seem to work out indoors, or at least not for me. You are a fiery Latina and whether you know it or not (but I suspect you do) the blues and green .. don't mix so well with our heat. Some might, I just have't found one. The best part of paint is that it's easy to cover. Trust one who has had to do this before.

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  11. If you don't like the color then change it dude. Life is too short to stare at walls you don't like. Just ask ppl in prison lol! Trial and error.

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