Color Frustrated...just venting

14 years ago

I just hit a wall trying to pick a color for my LR. First I painted it a med. brown: BM Strathmore Manor. Very nice but when my curtains came (cream faux silk) it was just a bit too much contrast so I decided to try to lighten it up. I went to work mixing my office color (BM Jonesboro Cream - lighter on the same strip as Strathmore Manor) and the Strathmore Manor together. It was nice - still a hair too dark.

Then I tried P&L Meerschaum (a very RICH creamy color). It was a hair too yellow and I need a really creamy RICH TAUPish cream color that is light.

Next up I decided to try BM Porcelain Ivory. Love it in my hall so it should work great, right? Totally different light and it doesn't come close to looking the same as in the hall. Of course the hall also has a giant stained glass window (only light) which is primarily pink. I have 3 walls done already in the LR and I'm also not digging how it looks w/ my pine armoire. I swear it has a yellow cast to it in this rm. Or am I so prejudiced against the yellow in Meerschaum that I can't see beyond it. Or maybe I should just suck it up and finish and then judge.

Or maybe I could go to my basement and dig out that old can of MS SW Sandpiper that was also awesome in my hall. That should work! After all it's practically the same color as BM Revere Pewter which I LOVE, LOVE, Love in my kitchen and MBR w/ rich creamy trim. The bedroom is even on the same side of the house above the LR. This will be perfect! NO IT WON'T! It's reading as flatly grey. I'm frustrated and I want to give up now.

Thanks for listening - I think I know what I have to do. I will NOT go back to the paint store. I WILL make one of what I have work! Or maybe just 1 quick more trick on my lunch break to the P&L store that I just found. Afterall - they don't know me. Yet.

Color is so frustrating w/ all of it's little nuances and such.

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hhireno
14 years ago
"on my lunch break to the P&L store that I just found. Afterall - they don't know me. Yet."

Oh, but it appears they will soon.......
hamsundm
14 years ago
ttodd - Just wanted to let you know that you are not alone. I feel your pain.

To add to my frustration, when I try to take pictures of colors to post here for advice, the colors on the pictures look *nothing* like they do irl.

If it makes you feel any better... at least you're questioning it before you get it all done and put back together!?

Good luck - hope you figure it out!!
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Oh, when it comes to paint and color, vent away!

Please allow me to use your post not only to commiserate but to add my own vent.

A little over two years ago I painted my kitchen what was supposed to be (well, it looked like it on the card, anyway) a nice lighter version of TerraCotta.
I even used poster board to get an idea what I would be getting.

For the next three weeks I tried, really tried to fall in love with what I called my "living inside a cantaloupe" kitchen.

I couldn't, no matter how much I tried, get used to the paint color.

Three weeks later I tried again, again using a very large poster board for almost a week, placing it in different areas of the kitchen to check for variations in lighting....day, night, natural, direct sun, dusk, shadow.

I tried...Oh, how I tried to love my new color in my kitchen. I put back all the decor knowing that would bring me the look I wanted.

Uh....nope, it didn't.

This time it reminded me of a very elderly woman who put way too much dark, rosey blush on her cheeks.

By this time the budget was gone and being inside a cantaloupe was a lot better than being reminded daily of very rosy red cheeks on a very elderly lady, so I repainted with the 'light terracotta', which wasn't, but it was going to have to make do.

That was two years ago....no decorations have been put back up because I've used those areas for painting sample colors on the walls.

Two years and my kitchen still looks like 'an experiment in orange' at a paint factory. *sigh*

My apologies for my vent on your post but I SO SO SO Understand where you are coming from!
DLM2000-GW
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amity I have a friend on another board who tried....and tried.....and TRIED to get the right terra cotta color for her home. Everything she tried ended up being what she called "circus peanut orange"!!! She finally gave up. It's not a color I've ever tried to work with but would have to be a really muted shade to avoid that orange glow thing, I guess. You're not alone, obviously!
lesmis
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Oh ttodd I also feel your pain. I have tried for the last two years to love my bedroom color which "I" picked! Then I tried lighter versions of it, then softer/greener versions of it. Then when the painter was here a few months ago I convinced myself that the original color (turquoise blue) was truly a great color with my new crisp white schoolhouse trim so he painted over the other colors I had sitting on my wall. Once again I'm not loving it, I've tried so hard to like it and hunted endlessly for bedding and accessories to make it work. Finally the other day I decided it just isn't going to work...ever! So I've completely given up and plan to go buy some BM Simply White and paint the whole room white...I'm just too tired to try anything else!

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