Picking out the perfect color is challenging at best.
The Money Pit walls are currently covered with squares of different options.
And I fear that our Pratt & Lambert dealer may run out of quarts.
One of my most favorite scenes in any film is from
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House.
Muriel Blandings is meeting with the painters.
She has laboriously gathered samples and ideas related to color.
Following is an excerpt of that dialogue and
some of my favorite rooms in the colors Muriel wants...
I want it to be
a soft green,
not as blue as a robin's egg,
But not a yellow-green
as dafodil buds.
Now, the only sample
I could get
is a little too yellow,
but don't let
whoever does it
go to the other extreme
and get it too blue.
It should just be a sort of
grayish-yellow-green."
I'd like yellow.
Not just yellow,
a very gay yellow.
something bright
and sunshiney.
I tell you Mr PeDelford,
if you'll send one of your men
to the grocer for a pound
of their best butter,
and match that exactly,
you can't go wrong!."
we're going to use in the Hall.
There's some little dots
I want you to match.
Not the greenish dot, but the
little bluish dot
between the rosebud
and the delphinium blossom.
Is that clear?"
is to be white.
Not a cold,
antiseptic hospital white.
A little warmer,
but still,
not to suggest
any other color but white."
in here -
I want you to match this thread,
and don't lose it.
It's the only spool I have
and I had an awful time finding it!
As you can see,
it's practically
an apple red.
Somewhere between
a healthy Winesap
and an unripened Jonathan."
Mr. PeDelford turns to the painter and says
"You got that Charlie?" To which the painter responds...
"Red, green, blue, yellow, white."
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