The Great Debate

Picking a paint color is harder than I thought. I decided to take advantage of the beautiful day last Sunday and go with my Dad to pick up some paint samples and make my final decision. I knew coming in that I wanted to get Porpoise because I basically fell in love with the color swatch, but I wasn't sure if it would be too dark, so I got the next brighter shade as well.



My Dad also insisted on getting tape, so I (unevenly) taped up boxes on my walls and got going on the paint.

I mainly wanted to do it on two seperate walls was to get the feel for the colors. I put them next to my black and white picture to see how it would look, and then next to the flower picture to see how the color would look with all of the colors. And this is the final product:

So... there were some unagreements. First off, my Mom kept saying it would make the room to dreary. Then I started thinking about it and realize she was a little right. Plus, the grays were too light- it would too WAY too bright and in your face with all of my white furniture. So, off we went to find a purpley gray color. I already had a paint chip of Behr's Plum Smoke and I thought that it went well with the colors in my room, and was dark enough to keep the room warm. My sister took me this time to get the paint samples, and while we were there, we also decided to grab a darker color that caught our eye. And this is what it looks like on my wall:

Plum Smoke (the lighter one) looks taupey/brown, right? Yeah, not what I was going for. At first I was a little dissapointed, but after a while, the paint sorta grew on me. I thought to myself "maybe this is the type of color I need, maybe gray would be too cold, maybe this will warm up my room"... just a bunch of maybes. When it's daylight, it looks gray, but when I have my lights on, it looks brown. I also decided to see if my fabrics would go well with it, and they do!

It's close to the color, without being too matchy matchy. And, if you look at the color long enough, it looks a little purple...right? Well we'll just have to see how this all turns out...

-Rachel :)