NEUTRAL NUANCE

Some months ago I mentioned that I wanted to spiff up our house just a bit, but over the years, I'd become much less daring and seemed paralyzed with fear at painting over our Sun City Grand beige.  So, yesterday morning, emboldened by just having attended a funeral with its reminders that time is indeed fleeting, drove from the church to Sherwin-Williams.  I'd been reading about new services S-W was offering that had sounded perfect and I wanted to check them out.

The salesperson led me to their new line of paint--The HGTV Color Collection--with which (according to the newspaper) a color-challenged person could mix and match paints within a palette to her heart's content and the end result would be really good.  I mentioned the article and the mixing/matching part, at which point the sales person looked at me and said, "Well, maybe two colors..." before her words trailed off.  How could she know?  But, undeterred, I looked over the eight different palettes each with twenty colors and quickly chose my favorite. Despite her obvious doubts, I knew I could successfully mix at least three of these colors plus a nice cream for the woodwork.  I was excited, I was daring, I was getting my moxie back!  Then out of  the eight palettes I learned I had chosen  Neutral Nuance.  Neutral Nuance!?!  I passed up Coastal Cool...Color Pizazz...Urban Organic for Neutral Nuance?!?  I had no idea it had gone so far...

I quietly left the store with my ten sample colors, promising to return soon, and slowly drove home thinking about the strange places life leads us.  I laid out my ten sample colors and I looked at my ten sample colors...   

Finally, I turned over my ten sample colors to read about them.  For example:  On the lower right (Kaffee) which HGTV kindly translates for people like me as BROWN, can be "incredibly rich and complex" and "imparts a sense of cultivated refinement."  I might like that to be me, but I don't think that's me.

Then there's Baguette which translates as GOLD.  "bold...subtle charm...understated glam."  Unfortunately, I haven't been "bold" for years although I think I have "understated" down pretty well.

Third from left at the top (Blonde) which translates as YELLOW--kind of like a bad dye job--had a certain appeal.  But too soon,  as a resident of an "active adult" community, I realize why I'm drawn to it.    YELLOW "stimulates recall" and God knows, we're all about stimulating recall here.  Actually, we'd like to stimulate a lot of things but it's just too late for some of it.

OK--enough!  I trashed  Neutral Nuance and I'll be going back to Sherwin-Williams tomorrow morning to pick up Urban Organic!  And--watch out little sales person because I just might mix/match and do other things with all twenty of those Urban Organic colors!  Be careful and get out of the way!!