July 05, 2006

Bare It!

Do you have a lot of pictures on your walls?

I don't. And there's a reason for this, but no one ever wants to ask. So I'm going to say it now.

In my old home, the walls were brown. Brown paneling, that is. Brown everywhere. Even the floors were shades of brown! (It was an older home, and I certainly didn't pick the color schemes.) And we had a lot of crap; think 10 pounds of shite in a five pound bag. So it was a cluttered, dark house.

When we built this house, somewhere in OH, Husband and I were struck by how nice and light the house was. I had all the walls painted "Navajo White," which isn't whitewhite, but not cream, nor eggshell. It's nice and light. And I don't have pictures on my walls.

I'm loathe to put nail holes in my walls, nor do I want to make the rooms seem darker by putting up all the pictures and what not that I've acquired.

And who the hell wants to dust all that crap?

So when one of the BIL's said he was going to get me paintings for Christmas (and he wanted to see them on my walls) I got kind of pissy.

It's my house, my walls, I do the dusting. He can do what ever the hell he wants with his walls, but keep the crap off mine. I'm sick of sitting around in the damn dark. Besides, I sat and looked at Strong Vincent and Joshua Chamberlain (see the pic below) for years, it's time for a change.