6.03.2009

paint decisions have been made (finally)!

does anyone read the onion? omg. i think it is SO funny. if you have ever struggled with decisions regarding paint then you have to read this article: "Study Finds Paint Aisle at Lowe's Best Place to Have Complete Meltdown". i was laughing so hard when i read it because it is so so true.

anyways, i thought that would be a good lead in to tell you that we've FINALLY made our paint color decisions for the living and dining rooms. we have even bought the paint. this should make me feel more comfortable that these will be our final decisions but we have already bought paint for these rooms and never used it. oh well.

the problem was finding the "right" shade of green for the living room. while our LR is large for the size of our house, we have really dark and wide wood trim throughout. chad wanted a darker green shade while i wanted a lighter shade. in the five years we've lived here we have managed to never paint the walls but to adorn them with about 8 shades of green and two shades of yellow.

the paint swatch collection has actually increased since this picture was taken in 2005. but the wall pretty much looks the same.
we've decided on a two valspar paint colors from Lowe's. Epic for the LR - a dark-ish green/tan color (very similar to the 3rd color on the right, above) and Lyndhurst Estate Cream - a super light creamy-yellow for the dining room. hopefully we'll be painting in a few weeks!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

OH! So funny! I read the Onion article......so true!
Your dad's kitchen MUST be repainted. We did go to Lowe's..... the paint section was stimulus overload for me! Your father is a wise man....he knew that within 5 minutes I was going into a color coma, he grabbed some color charts from the closest rack grabbed my hand and drug me from the store. In the car with only those 6 samples ..... I began to obsess, he took his pen and circled one.....that is it he said, that will be perfect! Hmmmmmm???????? I done' know about that?????