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Hooker Red vs. Hunter Green When my husband and I finally found a house we could afford, I was ecstatic. This meant we wouldn’t have to rent, and I could paint my walls any color I wanted. After getting what seemed like a million paint samples, I narrowed it down to a deep cranberry/burgundy. I was going to paint the wall one color and then “rag roll” the deeper color on top. It took a lot of effort on my part to convince my husband that this was the “perfect” color. He wanted to paint the room hunter green. Green was a bold step to him, but cranberry was a leap of faith. He finally agreed, and I called my sister, an experienced rag-roller, to come help while John went to work. We put the first swipe of paint on the wall and gasped. Whew! It was bright. “Don’t worry,” my sister said. “When you add darker color, this is going to be really pretty.” When my husband came home, he had the same devastated look that I had. In my mind I knew it looked like the “red light district,” but somehow I hoped that other people would think it looked better. The first thing everyone blurted out before they had a chance to be polite was, “This looks like hooker red!” Needless to say, we now have a beautiful hunter green room. Anna Robinson |
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