Today is a big day in my household--we're moving!! More about the new place later (trust me, it will be cute!), but today is the first day we get to move things in before we have to be out of our current place by Wednesday the 1st. We had the idea that, since we can paint in the new place but it's a big production to paint in a room where there's a lot of stuff, we could paint it now while it's vacant! This is not the way I have grown up to operate (as a kid, whenever we painted a room, we got tens of swatches in almost identical colors, brought them home, and held them up to the woodwork, flooring, existing colors, furniture, and walls on different sides of the room, to get the full effect of the lighting from different angles. We matched the new colors to each other, if there was a wall and a ceiling color, and then made a decision and bought the paint. But we may not have time for that today, and the downside of painting without any stuff in the house is that you can't hold the swatch up to things that have already been packed in boxes. Hm. But, I'll look at the carpet and the lighting, and try to do my best.
It's a little overwhelming, though, since we want to paint the living room and the kitchen, which merge into one another--how should the transition go? Won't it be jarring to have them visually touch, as you look through to the other? What about the dining room--it shares a wall with a large doorway to the kitchen, should it be the same color as the kitchen? I guess I've never had this problem, because I've always only painted one room at a time! There's so much potential when you have the whole house!
Here are some of the colors we're looking at...
Probably a light grey, a medium grey, and a pale aqua-ey green (or pure white) for the kitchen.
Any tips for picking paint colors for a whole house at once?!
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