Mismatch

(1960 March 17)

But most of all, the news is I am doing the room upstairs with the fireplace and am about scatty because the color seems so different on the wall than it was in the sample. I was just wild this morning. The painter is $1.85 an hour and this is his 3rd day. Tuesday he steamed off old paper and started washing off the layers of calomine and put one coat on ceiling. The tan I picked was the only plain paper in the good books. Everything is fancy with gold or silver streaks. Well, when the paint for the trim (which was mixed to match the paper exactly) was on, it seemed to have a lavendar tone. The painter, Byron Turner, said I could send back the paper (paying postage both ways and for one roll) and he could get new paint for the final coat. But L said he thot it was OK and I guess it won't be too bad when the furniture is in.