Wall o' rejected colors
So I'm on a painting kick again, trying to figure out what to paint my house. I may or may not have been shamed into this by my friends who just moved in down the street painting their kitchen mere months after moving in. Who knows. >_>
But I'm having a lot of trouble this time, maybe because I'm being pickier! The dining room was the first "room" (if you can call two walls a room) that I painted, and I ended up going with my first selection due to an employee error that netted me two gallons of paint at two quarts' price. So I figured I'd go for it and change it later if I hated it. The living room we painted in two shades of blue-gray, and we didn't spend a lot of time agonizing over that either. But this time, I've bought paint samples to get a feel for how the color will look in my home lighting, and it hasn't been going well. As the wall attests. The greens didn't work out as replacements for the too-saturated color in the dining room - they're too gray. I may repurpose the lighter green for another area, though! The yellows are both too saturated - I want a yellow in the kitchen area, but not around the cabinets as consensus is that oak cabinetry doesn't get along with yellow. (I have a nice green I'm testing for that pair of walls, that may actually work out at first try. The key: playing around with Behr's website to preview colors and modify them. The website previews tend to pull out undertones that are hard to see on the paint chips.) The grays are for the master bedroom: the lighter one is too light, and the darker one actually looks purple in the artificial lighting up there. I knew it had a purple undertone, but I didn't think it would actually look lavender on my wall. So now I'm testing two different shades of gray up there, laboriously chosen by putting up all the gray paint chips next to each other so that the undertones would stand out by comparison. That's how I picked the new, much lighter, yellow I'm testing on the kitchen right now.
Yellow for the kitchen
Green for around the cabinets
We'll see what Jonathan thinks when he gets home. These colors may actually rate being painted on the wall directly rather than being painted on sheets of paper taped to the wall. :)