There needs to be a "Choosing Paint Colors for Dummies" book
After painting the boy's room last weekend with much success (it turned out really beautiful), we want to attack the living room next. This will be a much bigger task, as there is much more furniture to move, more detail work with a small brush, more doors to put tape around, etc.
But the hardest part has been choosing a color. I'm not ballsy enough to pick something fun and wild, so I'm trying to go with a fairly neutral (re: safe) color. But I even suck at that. Today I went to Ace Hardware and picked up some sample-size bottles of paint. I painted little patches of two of the colors: "Summer Wheat" and "Dried Hydrangea." I was going for something along the lines of "warm beige" but they both look more like "pukey, fleshy orange." Oh dear. I'm afraid to even open the other two samples; in fact, I think I'll return them to the hardware store and look for a different line of color all together.
Someday, when we live in a house we won't be trying to resell any time soon, I'll muster up the courage to paint myself a bright orange kitchen, a stunning periwinkle bedroom, or a a cozy robin's egg blue breakfast room (right, like I would ever live in a house with a whole room just to eat breakfast in). For now, though, I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that whatever we pick out doesn't end up looking like we went temporarily insane in the paint aisle.
But the hardest part has been choosing a color. I'm not ballsy enough to pick something fun and wild, so I'm trying to go with a fairly neutral (re: safe) color. But I even suck at that. Today I went to Ace Hardware and picked up some sample-size bottles of paint. I painted little patches of two of the colors: "Summer Wheat" and "Dried Hydrangea." I was going for something along the lines of "warm beige" but they both look more like "pukey, fleshy orange." Oh dear. I'm afraid to even open the other two samples; in fact, I think I'll return them to the hardware store and look for a different line of color all together.
Someday, when we live in a house we won't be trying to resell any time soon, I'll muster up the courage to paint myself a bright orange kitchen, a stunning periwinkle bedroom, or a a cozy robin's egg blue breakfast room (right, like I would ever live in a house with a whole room just to eat breakfast in). For now, though, I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that whatever we pick out doesn't end up looking like we went temporarily insane in the paint aisle.
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as for daniel's room, it's in a color called "silverton," which is a light, light silvery blue. we love it.
there's a house in madison the color of pepto-bismal
i love icy blue.
on a completely unrelated note, do vegetarians ever get constipated?
Suze, I think you should show Stu the pics on my blog today - especially the one of you in that cute little white outfit!
Unless, of course, you're like me and eat only baking soda and capers. Then you get the shits, like, every half hour.
Also, I have to say, Suze, your house gets a good bit of light. Especially in the living room. So you can be more daring with colors on the darker side.