Today I went to the hardware store with my wife to look at the range of paint colours and grab some brochures and paint swatches to bring back home. We want to change up the colour scheme of our place a little as we plan towards getting it repainted in October. We grabbed about a dozen different “white” shades and very light “neutral” shades, and then picked a bunch of colours that we like to consider doing accents in places like the architraves, skirting boards, and cornices.
One of my friends suggested a feature wall in a different colour, and I explored today with taking photos of the interior and opening them in Photoshop and selecting walls and changing colour overlays to simulate painting them different colours. This achieved the effect of making my wife say to thank my friend for suggesting it, because now she knows for sure that she doesn’t want a feature wall.
We also received a quote for the painting from the painter who came to look on Friday. It’s roughly what we expected, so we asked to go ahead and book a date. The painter is away on a holiday for the start of October, but the best time for us to do the painting is the week of 13-17 October, because that coincides with my next ISO Photography Standards meeting. It’s in California, but I’m not flying over, and will be attending online. I need to take the week off from teaching Outschool classes so I can do the meeting, which will be 11pm to 7am in my time zone – absolutely the worst possible. So I’ll need daytime to recover, and won’t be up to teaching classes. If we can get the painting done the same week, it would mash the inconvenience together into just one week.
But I suspect we’ll have to get the painting done the week after. Which is worse, but not terrible, as I can use the daytime in between my meeting nights to pack things away in preparation. It will be worse again if the painter can’t do it until another week later. So we have to wait and see when they’re available.
We’ve also invited our new neighbours over for a board games evening in a couple of weeks. We know they like modern board games, so it will be a good chance to actually sit down with them and get to know them better, compared to the very brief conversations we’ve had so far when bumping into each other in the hallways or garage.