Amusing Observation

WITH so many projects completed or nearing completion, Dad has observed an interesting phenomena. When he paints, replaces, or cleans one thing, like cabinet doors or caulking seems, it is so clean and bright that it makes the old un-redone surfaces look really bad.

Filthy wall.

Adding this cove and caulking this counter top  makes the adjacent wall look really dirty. Dad was going to leave it untouched, but now it is begging to be done.

There is something about an evenness of  filth. If all surfaces are evenly dirty, it looks okay, or at least it is not an eyesore. But clean or repaint one surface and the filth on the other surfaces becomes easy to see.