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Re: What does "green" furniture mean?

Submitted by ctyankee on Sun, 01/20/2008 - 19:59.

When my daughter was in 2nd grade, my father and I made 8 benches for the teacher... we made the benches out of nice pine boards and painted them in an intelligent and easily recognizable pattern for 2nd graders ROYGBIV & Grey.

When we went to the paint store to order the paint the clerk was stumped by the order which consisted of: Red, Yellow, Blue, Violet & White paints.  He felt that if we mixed our own Orange, Green, Indigo, & Grey, but didn't use the codes from his "color machine" the colors would be "wrong"?

So with 5 qt of paint we were able to paint 8 benches with 7 vibrant spectral colors, and use the rest of the paint to cover the last one.  We see the teacher from time to time, the benches are still in use every day!

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What does "green" furniture mean? By: dputzel (5 replies) Fri, 06/22/2007 - 08:28