As the Color Wheel Turns

All of our former homes have had one style, "One Color". One color on every wall. We've always wanted to change that, but it never seemed to work out. Since the place will be empty and we're tearing out all the floors, it is the perfect time to paint.

I visit my friends and their homes are beautifully decorated. We are downsizing, but i know it's possible to do this on a budget so here's our opportunity. I'm going to make our new house a home if it kills me. I keep apologizing to my husband in hopes that I don't take him down with me.

I believe this starts with one piece and a color palette to match it. I had no idea how much trouble this would cause. The one piece was easy. Our couches are an dark orange-brown color and I already had all the Valspar color books so we picked out 5 to 6 colors, white to dark brown. We looked up paints on Consumer Reports and decided to go with a "Best Value" for the price paint, Glidden.

This is where i almost take Matt down. I know you can color-match paint. We have done this ourselves to match paint on things around our house. But once, a long time ago I asked to have a paint chip matched for a different brand of paint and the guy at the desk told me that it wouldn't look the same. I have believed this ever since. Looking back, I'm thinking that he didn't know how, but this has scarred me ever since. I told Matt that i thought we should pick colors from the Glidden display. He stared at me wide-eyed with a blank look. I could almost see the hours we spent debating the original colors flash before his eyes. He is amazing. He only questioned the logic behind my argument and then proceeded to look for the Glidden colors that came close to what we decided on. What we found would work, but I wasn't really happy with it.

The "Gentle Fawn" was giving me fits. I didn't really like it. Several days later I conceded and said we should go back to the colors we originally picked. He never pressured me, he just waited. I apologized and now we love our colors. We didn't originally pick out a blue so we may stick with the Rich Navy from Glidden, but we haven't been back to the store to check Valspar's blues.

Check out our new palette at pinterest.com/kimandginger/my-color-palette/