{"id":849,"date":"2013-08-14T13:09:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T20:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=849"},"modified":"2013-08-14T13:09:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T20:09:21","slug":"grey-is-never-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"Grey is never gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/inside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-850\" alt=\"S\" src=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/inside-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/inside-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/inside.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Choosing an interior house color is daunting, especially when the ceiling is 25 feet high and the whole house is open.\u00a0 We have to get it right and I have no intention of repainting if we don&#8217;t.\u00a0 So, I was looking for a soft gray to complement the &#8220;pebble&#8221; colored concrete and the dark concrete counter tops.<\/p>\n<p>Gray is a color that only exists in my imagination &#8211; apparently.\u00a0 It seems to either be green or blue.\u00a0 It has this tint or that tint.\u00a0 It leans towards beige or sometimes pink.\u00a0 No!\u00a0 Not acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>We selected an interior paint color a week or so ago and then yesterday, we went back to square one.\u00a0 Today, we went back to another paint store, perused the internet and finally selected a gray that seemed to be gray.<\/p>\n<p>We went to the house and, luckily, our wonderful drywall guru was there.\u00a0 He had a slight grimace (from 25-feet up) when I showed him the color.\u00a0 Too white, says he.\u00a0 I agreed.\u00a0 So, he\u00a0suggested the color in the middle of the swatch was better.\u00a0 I cannot tell you how much I value the opinion of people who have done this many times over.\u00a0 We get one shot at this.\u00a0 I am never building another house.\u00a0 I want to get it right and then relax.\u00a0 So, Misty Gray it is.\u00a0 It better not show up blue&#8230;or green&#8230;or pink!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choosing an interior house color is daunting, especially when the ceiling is 25 feet high and the whole house is open.\u00a0 We have to get it right and I have no intention of repainting if we don&#8217;t.\u00a0 So, I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=849\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}