In Mexico, I kept talking about painting some of the walls in our apartment and never got around to doing it. This time, I vowed, would be different. So last week we hired two embassy maintenance guys to paint some walls in our house for us. My friend Sumali helped pick out the colors. Two were a huge success--a beautiful sage-y green on one wall in the living room which goes perfectly with the tanish, greenish chairs and the Mexican painting we have there, and a wonderful pumpkin color in Ellie's room (sounds weird but looks good). Another one was sort of a wash-out--this nice cafe-au-lait color which doesn't really show up as so different from the three white walls in the room. I guess the lighting isn't as good as we thought.
But there's one that I'm afraid we might have to redo. We chose what we thought was a nice, sunny yellow for one very long wall in the family room. Now that the paint is on the wall, it doesn't look like sunny yellow. It looks like fluorescent highlighter yellow. It's somewhat better now that we have furniture against the wall again, and Ed thinks it will improve still further once the pictures are up, but I'm not so sure. On the plus side, it could make us more productive. No more need for naps or early bed time--just stand facing the neon wall for a few minutes and we'll be instantly refreshed!
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I really laughed at your experiences - because they remind me so much of ours in picking out paint! It's definitely a hit or miss proposition. Wallpaper is even worse. Did you know that Benjamin Moore now sells tiny cans of paint for a dollar or two so you can try it out on your wall to see if you like it before committing completely? What a great idea!
Love,
Mom
If you're absolutely sure you're going to paint the wall, you could try this: We taped up a bunch of paint chips of the colors we were having trouble deciding between and then every day we each got to take off one we didn't like with no arguement from he other person.
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