Paint Samples

Nik and I have wanted to paint every room in house since we moved in. We have lived there 10  months, and so far have only accomplished painting the dining room. It’s okay though, because the walls aren’t ugly. They are just very beige and match our beige carpet, our beige tile and our beige ceiling. So its a little like living in an oatmeal box. But its new and clean, so no complaints. The biggest reason for the delay in painting the living room is two fold: once we paint the living room, we have to do the kitchen and the hallway because it is all open and connected (so it will be a big job) and we just can’t seem to decide on the color that we want. We have painted sample upon sample on to various parts of the wall. The last set of samples lasted 2 months on the wall…until one day I just couldn’t take it anymore, and painted it back to beige.

Nik & I don’t usually seem to agree on paint colors, for some reason. This is odd to me, and never occurred to me that PAINT might challenge our compromising (or very stubborn) perspectives. Last night, I wanted to go to Lowes to look at paint to paint our dining room table (which is old and a really awesome hunter green color…not). Nik decides its time to do the living room. So, we go. And we do it again. For maybe the 10th time. We stand in front of the plethora of paint chip  samples. We pull some, we discuss. Some are keepers, others get put back.

We arrive back home and start holding the cards up to the wall. We thin out the pile again (like the many other times before). We decide on two that we like. I ask Nik what the names are - he tells me. I feel like the names sound familiar. So I go to the laundry room to look at the sample paint cans that we had gotten back in January. Low and behold, the two that we chose are sitting on the dryer. They were the samples that sat on our wall for months and had just been painted over because we decided we didn’t like them.  So, either we are extremely productive in deciding that we actually do like those colors - or we are back at square one. I’m still deciding.