Thanks for the help. I spent the morning at Benjamin more selecting little pots of sample paint and I think I found a color for the stairs. It is a little darker than the kitchen, but still in the fawn/taupe family.
If I were my own therapist, I would say what happened is that I painted over the red stairs and then panicked. I don’t WANT things to change. I don’t want to move. And I want my stairs to STAY RED just like I want everything else to stay the same.
Did I mention that when Mr. A sent in his application for the job, the BIG BOSS sent word the same day that he is very excited to see Mr. A’s resume? And also Mr. A should call on the Boss’ personal number early this week so they can DISCUSS WHICH AREAS Mr. A is MOST INTERESTED IN? This is a place where they get HUNDREDS (maybe thousands) of applications for each open position, for crying out loud. And Mr. A gets to talk personally to the big boss and discuss which position might suit him best. Sometimes I wish he wasn’t such a damn overachiever.
I threw a little tantrum about it all, last night. But this morning, I am back onboard and ready to paint. So this train is moving forward, red stairs or not.
We sold our house in May, nine days after it went on the market. We thought the realtor would want us to paint over our boldly colored walls, but she wanted us to concentrate on three other main issues instead (planting flowers out front, having the kitchen ceiling cracks repaired, and painting the porch ceiling.) When we looked for a house to buy, we noticed houses where everything needed to be painted due to dirty walls or, in one case, gray paint on every single wall. The exact colors didn’t matter as much. Good luck! It is hard to say goodbye to a house.
I thought you meant the stairs! The actual steps, I thought you painted THEM. I’m so glad you didn’t. I was horrified at the idea that you painted THEM cement. That’s why I couldn’t remember they were red. Not your stairs! The wall!
Wow, your Mr. A is quite the rockstar.
When we moved into our house it was alllllllll white, like a huge glacial palace. It was cold. It was awful. We immediately painted the walls red, olive, gold, etc and it is much much better. I don’t know about saleability. I kind of think warm colors help sell it too.
Glad it worked out! I witheld my opinion because I’m the one with the red nursery and no white walls in my house (not quite accurate, but close enough) ; ) The person I bought the house from had used colors very similar to my choices, but covered it all with white paint in order to sell! ~lmc
WOW!!!! I’d be scared too. Great explanation for your fears there… change is hard, but good. Good luck with everything!