The Pink is Gone – “The Room” is Red Now!

27 Jan

Personal

I really couldn’t take all that pinkness. Maybe if it wasn’t so strong, or if the stay was shorter, I could have endured. But not this way. And the pink curtains with the pink Playboy bunnies didn’t help either…

So I spent this past weekend repainting the room. I decided for a red color. Not “Benfica red”, but a darker shade of red. They call it “English Fire”.

Saying the painting process was hard is an understatement, but I’ll describe all the pains in another post, if I can get myself to write it. It started on Saturday afternoon (was supposed to start in the morning, but I couldn’t wake up early after one week of sleeping only 5 hours per night) and lasted until just a few hours ago. That included going to the shop to buy the paint, removing everything from the room, placing some masking tape, applying the first coat, waiting for it to dry, applying the second coat, waiting for it to dry while washing the brushes and the roller, removing the masking tape, and finally moving everything back inside the room. That basically meant spending the whole weekend stuck inside the house and, to make it even worse, the weather was the best since I arrived. Even the sun decided to show up…

All things considered, I still think it was worth it. I can now spend bigger amounts of time inside my room without going nuts, and it’s somehow cool to have a room that you painted yourself. Ando so, without further ado, I present you “The Room”, now in red:

The Room in Red

5 Responses to “The Pink is Gone – “The Room” is Red Now!”

  1. Andreia January 27, 2009 at 4:23 PM #

    Well dear Farinha!
    I think that you have to be carefull now with a room all in red, you can get a little agressive! And it was nice to see that in the Campus week in Costa da Caparica you’ve learned a lot about colours! “Benfica red”, like the “green flag”, and the “lettuce green” or even the “bottle green”. Carolii will be, for sure like me, surprised to know how you turned easily to a colour definer guy!! WHat PINK can do to a men!!!

  2. Elma January 27, 2009 at 6:11 PM #

    OH
    MY
    GOD…

    Maybe it’s because I am not a man, but the pink was softer :P

    Anyway, you officially live in the RED DISTRICT of Galway :x

  3. José Caldeira January 31, 2009 at 9:26 PM #

    Well done Farinha! Now, try not to paint the room as Nelson did in Algarve, yellow is not a good color ;) . Hope to see that room in person. Hugs and good luck in this adventure (Godspeed).

  4. jaxx February 3, 2009 at 10:14 PM #

    it turned out nice eh! :)

  5. Gisela May 10, 2009 at 9:30 PM #

    This room is pink… LOL!!!