Well, we actually went through with it! Picked a color, put it on the walls, and actually ceased obsessively looking through colors.
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| Confession time. |
I can't help it. I just can't. Something is very wrong with me and I'm at a point in my life where I can accept it, embrace it, and hope my dear husband also finds it somehow charming.
:)
In my defense, I did go straight in and ask about Comet. There weren't any chips on the floor so the nice salesman grabbed a deck and ripped the color chip out for me. I slapped it down on the table (
first thing in the morning, dirty hair, no coffee in me) and immediately it strikes me as having way too much red in it, rendering it a purple hue.
It's one of those things that even as well calibrated as your semi-professional monitor may be, you just have to see colors in person. I did see this color in person, and it wasn't happening.
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| It wasn't that purple, but doesn't matter. |
I was kind of unhappy. I sincerely had planned to swipe the color and have it color matched in Glidden at the Home Depot. I felt like I was back at square one.
In a panicked state of mind, Guy starts grabbing at greens, but I had enough faith in blue being the right color for our room. I found a chip that had two awfully promising colors on it, Benjamin Moore Labrador Blue and Saratoga Springs (also called Saratoga Blue, 1669).
The latter was a lighter blue, (I kept calling it Sarasota blue, because I was sleepy, irritated, de-caffinated and apparently secretly in love with Florida) and guess what, we both felt ok about it.
While I sat at a table, poring over colors, Guy noticed that the Benjamin Moore Spec paint was like, $3.00 more than Glidden... which really made NOT going to the Home Depot a no brainer.
We pulled the trigger on the color and the brand.
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| We opted for the eggshell finish |
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| The living room, primered up! |
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| Marley hates this. Everything. Go lay by the plant stand. |
The paint went on so damn nice. We had to do a coat and a half, basically. My cutting in work didn't need to be gone over at all. Kick ass! We did a quick and dirty coat of Zinsser primer the night before. Bonus: We love the color! I've gushed before about the Benjamin Moore color visualizer, but you can see with your own eyes just how accurate it actually is.
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| How our preview looks... |
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| How our living room looks! Spot on! (click for larger) |
Wow wow!! A happy Jen and a happy Guy this color does make.
In another post, I will be writing about my experience with the place we purchased our Benjamin Moore paint from, the Cleveland Paint Company.
