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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 4295791, member: 13464&quot;][QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel&nbsp; Oh, yes... I hear you loud and clear!&nbsp; LOL... We finally, after many years built our own home - and I thought white or ivory was &quot;standard&quot;. I chose ivory as I preferred it over white. Fast forward a number of years and we needed replacement appliances for the pieces which had exceeded their life and guess what! NO IVORY! there was BONE, SAND, ECRU... no Ivory... and of course, they are different in color! Lesson learned! I&#039;m replacing everything with WHITE! No stainless for me... as THAT will be hard to get in a few years too! They will make it &quot;brushed&quot; or &quot;nickel&quot; or &quot;textured&quot; or some such thing making it impossible to match! And when we went to replace the fridge... stainless was $5 more than white! I didn&#039;t fall for it! HA!</p><p><br /></p><p>My other brush with &quot;color&quot; was the first house we moved into after we got married. They had redone the kitchen with the latest fad color with burnt orange counters -&nbsp; and a brown stove - uck. But at least they were new. The fridge had not been replaced and worked &quot;fine&quot;... a big ole beheamouth Fridgedaire which had a icebox as big as a pint ice cream container! At the time I worked for a hardware and my husband travelled on business all week. </p><p><br /></p><p>We had gotten some cool new cans of spray paint in at the hardware... and there was a line of &quot;enamel paint&quot; for appliances. So, to surprise my hubby I bought some brown spray paint for the fridge. I carefully masked the handle and laid newspaper down on the floor and taped some up behind and around the fridge... and set to work one night. It seemed to cover great and the 2 cans were &quot;enough&quot;! I then stepped back to view my project and in HORROR realized that I had &quot;oversprayed&quot; the ENTIRE kitchen! The white floors, the burnt orange countertops, the dishes in the sink, the windows, the sink, the door, and EVERYTHING within a 12&#039; radius! OMG!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I knew I had to work fast, as the longer it dried the harder it would be to take off! Frantically I found paint remover and set to work. It was many many hours into the wee morning before I decided that it was presentable. Had to wash literally EVERYTHING after I used paint remover on all of it. I definitely learned my lesson there!</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh to be young and to have had that kind of energy! LOL!</p><p><br /></p><p>Cheerio Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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