Olive it or Leave it

Depending on where you stand, the color olive is super hot and trendy or barfy gaggy grossness. Kind of like its namesake, green olives. You either love them or you hate them. Or you are my husband who somehow didn’t even know they existed until just a few weeks ago when he incredulously showed one to me on a toothpick at a party. Sweet, sweet man.

He went ahead and tasted one for the first time in his sweet, sheltered life, and it turns out he hates them. I think they’re just fine. What about you? Olive lover? Olive hater? What about the color olive? Love it? Hate it? Unaware of its existence until this very moment?

Well, I kinda hope you don’t like it because we are eradicating the shade today! Starting with this olive office chair which was a bit of a drab drag.

 

But white and gold? Please and thank you. Was this paint? Re-upholstery? You’ll have to check out Allison’s blog Dream a Little Bigger to find out!

 

What are your feelings toward this lamp? Erin and Dan owned a pair of them for a few years and their feelings were ‘Meh.’ It had a nice shape, but that darn olive color just didn’t get them excited.

What about now? Copper and white spray paint for the win, plus an updated round shade! So much more appetizing. If you can call a lamp that. I say you can.

See the whole process on their blog DIY Passion.

Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if there was such thing as a white olive?

Hang on, just googled it. There is. It’s the most rare olive of all and nearly extinct!

That concludes me talking about olives and also the color olive.

I think we all learned something today.

I’m not sure what it was.

But something.

Definitely something.