i understand you're upset but please try and relax. all color is relevant to its surroundings. it looks different sitting in your garage than it will inside your kitchen! white especially takes on color from the room and even from color and light coming through your windows. honestly, while i was going through the trauma of finding The Perfect White ...finally locating it only having to change it again ...i realized i was agonizing over nothing. i lugged a dozen painted doors and put them in the new kitchen and i sat and watched them. i left them there and went back several hours later and looked at them again. and after a while i realized something: they were ALL white! the subtle differences each hue possessed was lost in a mass of (basically) WHITE doors. so after declaring my undying love for SW column (and then having the cabinet maker tell me i had to change it) i happily chose a DIFFERENT SW white, whose name completely escapes me because i've decided it just doesn't matter. my cabinets will be white and i'm not getting stuck on the almost indiscernible differences from one shade of white to another. and before anyone jumps all over me let me explain i am EXTREMELY color sensitive. it was my job at one point to sit in a giant light box and mix color for magazine production. i understand color and how to mix it and how it changes and how it constantly surprises us. i promise you, once everything is moved in, the color WILL change. things will meld together like the ingredients in a simmering pan and i'm pretty sure you will be delighted by the taste. trust in the universe and move on to the next item on your "to do" list. i have never met a color i didn't like. good luck to you as you reach the finish line! i'm so excited to see your reveal!

I answered you on your other thread....I think you're going down the Band-aid road. Budge is right about the green. You better do some more testing before the painter starts putting color on your walls. He/she will be priming, right? That should buy you a bit of time. What color is your furniture? Can you do green in the room? It's the safest choice if you're in a hurry.

Exterior colors are difficult. Blue in the front of my house looks quite a bit different in the back of my house. I have blue shutters and a blue porch floor. Having gone through the agony of picking colors, I can imagine what happened. You envisioned a darker blue, like a blue black. And on the chip of paint, it looked really dark. But in the sunshine . . . Even though it isn't what you wanted, I think it looks nice. If I were you, I would live with it for a year or so and then re-evaluate. If you hate it, then repaint. I would think long and hard about adding shutters. I don't see them adding anything. Taste is so individual - I live in an historic area where everyone has shutters, and black shutters are common and look nice, but there are many beautiful houses with non-black shutters. I had a lovely brick house with green shutters. I'm not a fan of black shutters.

Helpful, thanks much. I suspect that the shutters I have were ported over when windows were updated by previous owners and we will not be replacing them after the siding is updated. With the consideration of just removing the paint to expose the brick, and after peeling away paint layers, I discovered that the brick on the left is orange while on the right (in the middle section of the house), it is white-ish in color (the left side of the house and 2nd garage was an addition). I suspect the brick was painted to hide the fact that two different styles were used. So we will probably continue to paint it and leaning towards a matching blue.