Painting the Walls

Paint can add tremendous pop to the rooms you're decorating.  The wonderful thing about paint is that you can change the color as often as you like.

When I lived in my townhouse in Seattle, there was one accent wall on my dining room that I painted at least 5 times! My friends would tease me because the wall was a different color every time they came to visit.  I didn't care, I insisted on getting it right.

I recently discovered a pretty cool tool that will help me get the color right in my current place...at least the second time - Color Smart by Behr (www.behr.com).  You can select colors from their color system, then try them out virtually with a template photo or a photo that you can upload to their site.

For my dining / living room, I chose Smokey Blue. The template photo is shown below. I will upload an actual photo in another post to see if it really works.

For my master and guest bedrooms, I think I'm going to go with Pencil Point and Twig Basket. Again, these are template photos.

I strongly suggest ordering or buying the 4 oz paint samples before buying pint or gallon sized cans.  Trust me, you'll save yourself a ton of money in paint and trips to the paint store.  The lighting levels in your room will be true test of whether you made the right color selection. The 4 oz samples will cover about a 4-foot by 6-foot wall area - plenty of space to determine will help you figure out whether you made the right choice.

Happy Painting!