clockwork orange

Or…

How I Realized That I Would Be Crazy to Paint My Wall Orange

I had this brilliant idea that I would paint an orange rose, something along this lines of this…

…on a giant canvas and hang it on this gray stairwell wall…

…which would be great, because I’m planning to use orange as an accent color in my family room, and it would all tie together seamlessly.

Then I got the brilliant idea that I could paint a small section of the wall orange to the left of the gray wall. Seemed like a great idea in my mind. (That’s foreshadowing, folks…)

Since I was only going to paint about a 5-foot section, I thought about just buying a quart of paint and going for it. But then I thought better of it when I wasn’t certain which orange to choose, so I brought home a couple of paint chips and taped them to the wall like I always do…

…which is a good thing, because I realized that I hated all of them and I don’t think that orange is a color that I can live with, at least not on an entire wall. Didn’t like a single one of them. Not the coral or macaroni and cheese variety, not tangerine, not clementine, not bold orange, none of them.

So let this be a lesson to you. (And by you, I mean me.) Always tape your paint chips to the wall to see how you like them before slathering on the paint.