Seriously...
Feb. 13th, 2009 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prosodicDoes anyone else have this much trouble finding a paint color?
*scream*
This one isn't working either. Yes, I checked. It still more or less matches the color card. And while I think it pretty much looks like what I was expecting, Lance sees a purple tinge to it. And I can kind of see his point. It does look that way if the light shines on it a certain way or depending upon how thick a layer is slopped on the walls.
I think it's the walls that are the problem. Textured walls can create a difference in color.
This is insane. I guess I'm sticking with antique white. A very subtle tan/brown just does not exist in our world, apparently (we're not going with anything dark...Lance has this fear of medium/dark colors on the walls). All the colors we thought were right were either gold, pale pink or purple-brown in disguise.
So...the prep work has begun, and yet, no paint.
$12 spent on paint samples. Three small cans of paint going to waste. Not even sure where I can discard this. It's considered a hazardous material, so I can't just throw them in the trash.
I'm really getting pissed off. My mom can just go buy a color, slop it on the wall, and it looks fabulous. She doesn't even try out any samples first. I suck.
*scream*
This one isn't working either. Yes, I checked. It still more or less matches the color card. And while I think it pretty much looks like what I was expecting, Lance sees a purple tinge to it. And I can kind of see his point. It does look that way if the light shines on it a certain way or depending upon how thick a layer is slopped on the walls.
I think it's the walls that are the problem. Textured walls can create a difference in color.
This is insane. I guess I'm sticking with antique white. A very subtle tan/brown just does not exist in our world, apparently (we're not going with anything dark...Lance has this fear of medium/dark colors on the walls). All the colors we thought were right were either gold, pale pink or purple-brown in disguise.
So...the prep work has begun, and yet, no paint.
$12 spent on paint samples. Three small cans of paint going to waste. Not even sure where I can discard this. It's considered a hazardous material, so I can't just throw them in the trash.
I'm really getting pissed off. My mom can just go buy a color, slop it on the wall, and it looks fabulous. She doesn't even try out any samples first. I suck.
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Date: 2009-02-14 07:28 pm (UTC)We got the 3rd sample from Lowe's, and it was close. I think it was mixed fine. It was just one of those situations where we hadn't gotten the paint chip previously to test it against our furniture. The colors we're picking are very light and very neutral, so they should go with everything. And we even stuck the chip into Lowe's light box to sample it with different kinds of light, and the purple tinge wasn't apparent.
We don't even have anything in our living room that's purple (or gold, or pink), so there is nothing to even bring out that color and really emphasize it. It's weird. The walls are currently painted off-white, so I don't think there's an issue of bleed-through or anything either. I'm at a total loss to understand it. If nothing else, the color we got last night should've had more of an orange cast to it, because it came from the shaded orange family.