There Are Just WAY Too Many Colours!
In my last post, I mentioned that I was picking colours for my home. It’s almost time to paint. Well, I spent this weekend trying to pick colours.
Things I learned about myself: I get overwhelmed easily. Since I can’t put deep, saturated colours in my tiny house, I want whites with a hint of colour in them. I don’t like muddy, greyish, or brownish colours. I like clear, true tones.
I think I finally found the colours that I want. Only problem is, they are made by a different paint company than the one my contractor uses. Thank goodness for colour-matching. My contractor can take my sample chips to the company he uses and have them create that colour.
It was really an overwhelming task, choosing the colours. First, I have my folks saying, “Pick just one, because every time they have to change the colour, it costs you $50.” But I’m thinking, “I don’t give a flip. I want a different colour in every room, and if that costs me an extra $500, FINE!” Which I did finally manage to convince them was how I felt.
And second was the impossible amount of choices. Walk in Home Depot, Lowe’s, Seabrook, or Farrell-Calhoun. The sheer number of possible paint colours is astounding. I’m all about choices. And maybe if I hadn’t had to choose in just one day, it would have been easier. But there were a couple of times when I was close to tears from frustration.
But I did it. I have my six wall colours plus a trim colour. I’ll have my yellow kitchen, my green library, my blue boys’ rooms, my pink master bedroom, my ultra-pale blue bathrooms, and my blue-grey living room. All in incredibly pale colours. The bathroom colour looks white on the chip, until you hold it against something that’s true white. Then you can tell that it has just a bit of blue in it. And the trim is, of course, white. Eggshell finish for the walls, and semi-gloss for the trim. It’s going to be lovely. And, as I told my folks, if I decide that I don’t like a colour, well, I can always change it. Doing one room is not nearly so complex as doing an entire house.
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You sound like me! I had a decorator tell me to pick one color and carry variations of it through the house with different accents. I said “The whole HOUSE?” How boring is that?
Oh well. No more decorator. But the house could still use more paint.