Backfill: Ten Steps to a More Colorful Future

Have you eaten your fill of drywall dust? Do your knees hurt? Are you tired of getting blood blisters on your calluses, and splinters in your blood blisters? If so, maybe it’s time to consider training for an exciting new career in naming paint colors. According to the experts at several leading paint companies — the folks who bring us color chips with names like Salmonella and Roasted Seed, to name two actual examples — mastery of the steps below could be your ticket to a brighter, lighter, cheerier, more pasteltinted future: 1. Keep your eyes open. The pros spend a lot of time studying maps, textbooks, and other references in search of