{"id":4251,"date":"2011-09-20T22:49:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T22:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2011-09-20T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T23:00:12","slug":"life-imitating-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/life-imitating-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Imitating Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we bought our house, we assumed that we’d be keeping the green\/blue\/gray-ish tinted accent-wall in the living room. \u00a0It looked like a nice color, that would go well with everything.\u00a0Then we moved in and it turned out that our sofas and that wall had precious little in common, which was unfortunate, since one of the sofas is up against that wall. \u00a0Thus began the quest for a better accent-wall color. \u00a0The following contains a fairly detailed account of what’s happened so far, but it’s necessary to demonstrate the\u00a0eeriness of what we discovered tonight… \u00a0Anyway. \u00a0On with the story!<\/p>\n

This color-quest hasn’t been a huge priority, so it wasn’t until ten days ago that I finally made my way to the\u00a0neighborhood\u00a0paint-store and bought a couple of sample cans. \u00a0That evening I posted the following on Facebook:<\/p>\n

“Finally went to the paint store to get paint-samples for the living-room wall. Got two samples. One turned out to be the color of the sofas, and the other the color of the kitchen cabinets – and neither were good on the wall. Ended up mixing them 50\/50 and kind of like the results. Will sleep on it before deciding.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What I neglected to say was that I used the combined sample-paints to paint pretty much the entire width of the wall, from the sofa top to as far as I could reach. \u00a0With that as a reference it quickly became obvious that the color was way too dark.<\/p>\n

On my next trip to the store, I therefore got two samples that were much lighter in color. \u00a0Those got painted on in two big splotches this past weekend, and we got help from visitors who gave us their favorites. \u00a0One of the lighter\u00a0colors was a clear favorite, but was too light. \u00a0I therefore decided to get the next darkness up on my next trip to the paint-store.<\/p>\n

Shortly after coming home today, I broke a couple of speeding laws to get to the paint-store before 6pm. \u00a0I just made it, but I was so late the guy gave me the sample I wanted for free!! \u00a0I think he just wanted to go home. \u00a0So home I went and Bjarki and I painted the wall again, starting in between the light patches, and working our way outwards, not quite covering them width-wise.<\/p>\n

After Bjarki had gone to bed, I then applied a second coat and decided for the heck of it just to finish off the tiny can of paint. \u00a0In the process I painted entirely over one of the lighter colors. \u00a0Then I let the paint dry as I helped Anna with her homework, and put her to bed.<\/p>\n

Once I was downstairs again, I started chatting with Finnur about the paint-colors, and remarked “Huh, those colors look quite a bit like the colors of that one actual painting that we have”. \u00a0As a result I went to the garage to fetch it from a pile of frames hidden behind stuff.<\/p>\n

I took the painting, placed it on the sofa and … well, see for yourselves!<\/p>\n

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Painting on top of sofa.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Same image, just taken closer to the sofa to lose the original wall-color on top. Note that behind the sofa is all green\/blue-ish...!<\/p><\/div>\n

SERIOUSLY?!?! \u00a0That’s just insane! \u00a0I’m properly<\/em> freaked out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we bought our house, we assumed that we’d be keeping the green\/blue\/gray-ish tinted accent-wall in the living room. \u00a0It looked like a nice color, that would go well with everything.\u00a0Then we moved in and it turned out that our sofas and that wall had precious little in common, which was unfortunate, since one ofRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4256,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}