Fastest painting project ever!

You would think as a decorator, selecting a paint colour would be easy – and it is, when I’m selecting a colour for a client. But when I’m selecting a colour for my own home, I just can’t make a decision. I can agonize over fifty-eight different shades of the same colour for weeks, driving myself crazy trying to narrow them down to one.

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So I’m pretty impressed with myself for selecting a new paint colour for our loft in less than a day! Our loft is currently painted Benjamin Moore Stone House. The orange sectional is the Charles from Silva.

A designer chose Stone House for me, but I didn’t like it right from the moment it started going up on the walls. She assured me it would look great, but meh, not so much – there’s just too much orangeiness going on. We bought Charles after the walls were painted – we hadn’t planned on buying an orange sectional, but when you can get a brand new high-quality sectional for $750, you don’t worry too much about the colour, as long as it’s not barfy :-)

When hubby taped off and painted the screen on the wall across from the sectional for his projector, some Stone House came off the walls with the tape. So rather than touch up a colour I don’t like, I decided to re-paint the whole room in a colour I DO like. OK, maybe not the logical choice, but hey, that’s how I roll :-) I was pretty fixated on greys and browns for ages. And then yesterday afternoon as I was trying to decide between grey and brown, I thought to myself, BORING – go with something more interesting! And I found this colour in my PARA Paints fan deck, Designer Indulgence.

I love that it’s kind of blue and kind of green {more green than it looks in this sample}, not too dark but not too light, and definitely not grey or brown. It works well with both the orange sectional and dark walnut flooring. And it’s completely different from the colour that’s there now, which will be a welcome change.

I normally do all the painting in our house, but the loft is a bit out of my comfort range. There’s the vaulted ceiling, as well as some skinny skylights that are right above the staircase. I e-mailed my painter friend and asked him if he has some time in his schedule to paint our loft. He e-mailed me back this morning and said he can do the job tomorrow. This is going to be the fastest paint project EVER – 48 hours between choosing the colour and getting the whole room painted! I can’t wait to see the new colour on the walls :-)

Do you agonize over paint colours too, or do you know what you want and choose a colour right away?