Sometimes little things please me

[JPSmit]

One of my New Years resolutions was to clean and organize my basement. So, the last few days have been painting walls and floor and running to Ikea to buy storage shelving. Found a great deal on paint on Kijiji, and, he had rustoleum floor paint. It pleases me that in this world of thousands of paint colours with names like amber dawn and mountain trail, that you can still get Battleship Grey. Oh, and painted the engine block from the Vauxhall grey too - and that pleases me as well. Sometimes the most traditional of colours just look right.

 

[PAUL161]

5 years of looking at nothing but Battleship Grey kinda turns me off of painting anything here that color. Not the service, just the color. Why couldn't the Navy paint their ships a pretty Blue Green instead, matches the ocean better! PJ

 

[Basil]

I felt this way when I finally got around to cleaning out (and painting) my garage. It had become a candidate for the TV show "Hoarders".

 

[BustedKnuckles]

As I understand it, the Navy chose to paint things gray because

• it was the most effective color to camouflage a ship against a gray horizon
• it is an easy color to create by mixing whatever leftover colors may be handy
• it's difficult for most people to distinguish shades of gray from each other unless they are side by side; a field-expedient shade of gray would look proper even if it was not exactly regulation