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Why doesn’t my husband listen?

124 replies

juas · 21/04/2022 23:22

So, I told my husband to paint the stairway, hallway and landing in peignoir and the kitchen which the hallway leads into. When you walk into the house you walk past the stairs and straight into the kitchen there is no door and the kitchen is narrow as the hallway.

What does he do! He paints it in mizzle which was for the living room! So he’s painted the landing 3 walls in mizzle (2 coats) he hasn’t painted the wall that goes down the stairs yet. I’m thinking should I ask him to now paint the wall down the stairs and in wall the goes into the kitchen in peignoir or paint mizzle till the kitchen starts the paint peignoir. Mizzle won’t match the kitchen and I’m worried there will be like a mizzle stop line then the start of peignoir as the hallway and kitchen wall is one wall. Then is we do peignoir from the stairs wall, will it look strange if upstairs is in mizzle and then the stairs wall and down stairs in peignoir? I don’t really want to paint over the 2 coats now as the paint was expensive and it does actually look great.

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CorsicaDreaming · 21/04/2022 23:42

I agree, it's so annoying when you get mizzle when you really wanted peignoir Biscuit

Celendine · 21/04/2022 23:51

BiscuitGrin

Dartmoorcheffy · 21/04/2022 23:53

I must have wandered into some strange universe here...

mothertrucking · 21/04/2022 23:54

@CorsicaDreaming

I agree, it's so annoying when you get mizzle when you really wanted peignoir Biscuit
DaffodilGrin
chisanunian · 21/04/2022 23:59

Where do they get these ludicrous paint names from?

UmbilicusProfundus · 22/04/2022 00:07

Thanks for all the vital details, but you had me at Peignoir.

SpinningForVictory · 22/04/2022 00:09

Mate he's done you a favour poor sod

GrumpyPanda · 22/04/2022 00:13

Pics needed.

MauvishMaude · 22/04/2022 00:14

Surely you can afford more paint as you're not paying for labour?

malmi · 22/04/2022 00:21

Can't you get him to do a light coat of fricozée over the mizzle which will bring it up to a peignoir or something close, it might come out more like a vavvimauf though I suppose

Forgotthespuds · 22/04/2022 00:24

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pizzaand · 22/04/2022 00:27

Fo shizzle dizzle @Forgotthespuds Grin

KettrickenSmiled · 22/04/2022 00:37

To be fair to DH, if a spouse demanded that I don a floaty gown ill-suited to DIY before painting the stairway, I'd be inclined to invite them to fuck the fuck off & do it themselves.

Has DH splattered the peignoir?
I do hope not, especially if it's in mizzle. Because you KNOW what a splatter of mizzle looks like on boudoir wear OP, & it's not clever or funny. What if the teenage DC see it, & make mock?

Hiddenmnetter · 22/04/2022 00:39

It’s not your husbands fault, It’s fucking Farrow and ball for having such stupid fucking names for their paints.

Mizzle…It’s fucking Green!!!

Redwinestillfine · 22/04/2022 00:44

Thus thread is awesome. Just what I needed to cheer me up 😂

Topseyt123 · 22/04/2022 00:48

I can't blame him to be honest. What the absolute fuck are peignoir and mizzle? Your post really doesn't make sense.

I'm not sure I could have got it right either.

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 22/04/2022 01:14

Hiddenmnetter · 22/04/2022 00:39

It’s not your husbands fault, It’s fucking Farrow and ball for having such stupid fucking names for their paints.

Mizzle…It’s fucking Green!!!

Green? I’d have put it as some kind of dreary grey - a cross between mist and drizzle.

LampLighter414 · 22/04/2022 01:23

Why don't you do it yourself?

Topseyt123 · 22/04/2022 01:39

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 22/04/2022 01:14

Green? I’d have put it as some kind of dreary grey - a cross between mist and drizzle.

I think I prefer it to be drizzle. Dreary drizzle. 😂

Or just call it green. Mizzle is such a ridiculous and hilarious name for it. 🤣

DoubleGauze · 22/04/2022 02:44

Did Snoop name these paint colours?

TomDaleysCardigan · 22/04/2022 02:50

I'm going to need a diagram

Maybeitstimeforachange · 22/04/2022 03:07

If I had a pound for every time this happened to me! Husbands who’d have them?

BadNomad · 22/04/2022 03:23

He painted three walls twice before you got home?

Can I borrow him please?

NaughtyDaddyPig · 22/04/2022 03:30

They're just not arsed.
I once asked my ex to get 'anything but tuna'. Of course he bought tuna because they don't listen to the whole sentence. They just switch off and hear a key word.

Yours probably heard 'paint walls' and remembered 'mizzle' or probably didn't even realise you'd bought different colours as they seem to need everything done for them to do any job. Like get the paints out, get brushes out, line it all up. Draw a picture. Send a video. Supervise pouring. Give a pat on the head.
He'll just use all the paint until that tin runs out then put next tin (whatever it izzle) and pour that in and start wherever he left off. It'll look like shizzle but he won't care.
He's completed the task of 'painting the walls'.

Whooshaagh · 22/04/2022 03:37

Mix the Peignoir and Mizzle together OP.
Pizzle could be a new and exciting colour!

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