Here's Looking at Hue

10.27.2008

The Bite:
imageIs the gray outside (OK, normally, it is gray out by now) making you feel like you're in a black-and-white film - just with hipsters instead of Humphrey? (Techni)color it - or at least your walls - with Authentic Home's line of rich, SAD-fighting hues. All 60 shades are now available as zero-VOC paint (you'll have to get high off something else) in shiny, not-so-shiny, or not-shiny-at-all finishes (apologies for the technical terms). And the coverage is just as good - if not better - than conventional paint. If you wanna see whether your kitchen'll look better in Parisian Blue or Pomegranate, grab a two-ounce sample to try it out. You can always paint it again, Sam.
Wanna Try: 
Authentic Home, 4151 California Ave. SW b/t SW Dakota St. and SW Genesee St. (206-937-3070). AH Color Green Paint, $48/gallon. Sample cup, $4.50/2 ounces.
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Cocktail Fact

From Bogart to Bergman, none of the characters in Casablanca ever says the famous misquote, "Play it again, Sam."

Small Changes Add Up

If 10,000 Seattle Biters paint their bedrooms with VOC-free paints instead of conventional kinds, we'll keep enough nasty chems outta circulation to fill 650 bathtubs.

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