Have you ever had a decorating faux pas?! A decorating disaster?! We want to hear about them, the one that makes us giggle the most wins!! Leave them in our comments or you can email us. Now this is on your honor- so tell the truth! The prize is one of Trissy's handmade charms from Ditri designs. So just an example for you..... I was sooo prego with our first baby.We had been remodeling this house built in the early 1900's. Doing dishes in the tub and eating out or with a microwave for what seemed like FOREVER! I think we were having a shower at our house like in the next few days, so of course we thought we'll paint! We decided on a burnt orange to go with our dark wood molding..... Our cute neighbors came over to help and we were painting until like one AM. My poor pregnant bod was so tired and so relieved to finally have it done in time for all our guests to arrive. We went to bed feeling like the paint "probably wouldn't look quite as orange in the morning" So when we got up the room was "Yes! Quite that ORANGE! The orangiest thing you have ever seen!!!!" needless to say this color has only shown up in accents in my house since. And my poor hubs had to repaint it all in one day- I don't think it was even dry when people came to the shower.
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I don't have one to share, but I don remember helping you paint those lovely orange walls!
ReplyDeleteBad painting experince as well. I Was (okay lets be honest, jake was) painting my bathroom a "red pepper color" thinking it would be more of a burnt red. NOPE. Turned out to be a fire engine bright red, and in tiny bathroom with no windows. It was blinding!! And Hideous!! Or the time he tried to hang up and old antique window on my wall for decoration. And couldn't find the stud, so we counted 16 un-needed drill holes in the wall. YIKES! ;)
ReplyDeleteMeg- you were our cutest neighbors EVER! but it was the second in line of cuteness neighbors that helped... the jensens. And Melissa I love it! It made me laugh hard, my favorite part is 16 nail holes- soo funny!
ReplyDeleteI don't have one to share, but I love all your creative and cute ideas!! You are so amazingly talented....I may have to hire you to help me decorate!!
ReplyDeleteOk, how about me trying to put a stinkin' vinyl lettering thing on some spongy board thinking it would work...yeah, not so much. I don't know why I thought it would...or painting our old apt kitchen with this really awesome yellow, or so we thought. It ended up looking like a taqueria, with glaring florescent lights, oh my! Or the fact that most of my walls are bare because I am too busy/tired/chicken to decorate! Or, I will just make a story up because that charm is sooooooo cute!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis blog looks so good ladies!! Can't say that I am brave enough to have a faux pas...usually my ideas and just sort of lame! I did however go through 5 quarts of blue paint before I found one that my husband woundnt categorize as "fiesta"! All my chips and salsa dreams out the window!
ReplyDeleteThanks ladies! Loving your comments- we might have to make more charms, idono if I can pick just one!
ReplyDeleteBre, we were totally there helping paint that night with the Jensens. You must have really had pregnancy brain!
ReplyDeleteOh I have many...but one that comes to mind is when I was painting a wooden dog bed for my sisters new puppy. I set the bottle of paint next to me and kept working way...when I was done I COULDN'T FIND THE PAINT ANYWHERE! The sweet little puppy whos bed I was panting had taken the bottle of paint and walked through the house leaving a trail...and had a little aqua face for DAYS!!
ReplyDeletePaint seems to be the theme here, but my faux-pas disaster is on a slightly different angle. Remember the tole painting era? I must have tole painted hundreds of silly little things that, of course, all had to be proudly displayed in my home! Bunnies, santas, bears, shelves, boxes etc. etc. etc. One day I looked around and thought, oh my gosh, get all this cutsie crap outta my house! Honestly, there wasn't one flat surface that didn't have a painted wooden masterpiece of some sort sitting on it!(I look back now and think it must have looked very similar to one of those "Hoarders" episodes on tv!) I put down my paint brushes a few years ago and haven't picked them up since. But honestly, the biggest faux-pas had to be the time I thought that a pair of cute dish towels would make the most darling kitchen curtains of all time! I got my sewing machine out, sewed a straight line pocket for them to be placed on the curtain rod, slid them on thinking how clever I was. NOT!! They just looked like a very pathetic after thought. I've since rethought my decorating abilities and have now adopted the "minimalist" look. Yeah - that works! Less is certainly more in my case! My husband is relieved!
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