Thanks to Mother Nature bestowing snow and rain on us this weekend, our garage painting had to be postponed! But don’t worry – we (mostly John) fought the urge to stay in and watch Halloween movies and instead went over to the paint store (plus he fixed our doorbell.)
Before we headed out, we looked through this blog. It’s really neat – endless photos of rooms and the paint colors listed. We picked out a few we liked and out the door we went.
After some executive decision making done primarily by myself, we left with three paint samples. They are as follows:
Accessible Beige, Practical Beige, and Latte. All are from Sherwin Williams. Why? Because there is a store near our house AND there’s sales going on there. Plus, we like their color selections and paint quality.
We purchased quart-size samples. Sure, we could have saved a few bucks and just did swatches, but we thought it would be worth the investment of about 6 bucks each to be able to throw the paint up and test it out. We are planning on painting the majority of the downstairs this color and we don’t want to have to repaint.
I put the samples up in three places in our house – the morning room, family room, and living room.
We have three differed types of floors in each of these rooms so it’s really important to us that the color looks good with the Berber, hardwood, and living room carpet.
Right now my vote is for Accessible Beige. I do want to pull up all the (paper) shades and see how the color looks in full sunlight.
We would love to hear your thoughts or suggestions for paint. Have a paint that is your go-to and want to share?
