Paint Party!

Last weekend the hubs and I picked out the paint color for the master bedroom.  We are hosting an open house/anniversary/birthday party for ourselves at the end of May and our goal was to complete the master bedroom before we moved into it.   Of course, by bedroom, I just mean bedroom.   If you saw the last post, the bathroom is a whole other can of worms.   And, at this rate, I'm going to just hang up photos of what things will look like in ten years and then herd everyone outside for drinking games. Because there's no way we are achieving this deadline. 

In the natural vein of things at Brown Beauty: 

1.  Drive to Home Depot and pick out Gentle Rain by Behr which looks like this: 

"What a sweet, nice gray.  Not to dark, not too light."  You say to yourself, chuckling slightly because this project is so easy.  

2.  Paint walls. A large swatch of wall.  

3.  Realize that the paint is actually dirty white. And hideous. 

4.  Ask yourself whose fault this is.  Your options are: Home Depot, your husband, Moe, yourself.

5.  Come to the conclusion that Gentle Rain just totally sucks as a color and is not gray. 

6.  Return to Home Depot (third trip of the weekend) to choose a better gray paint color. 

7.  Wear a gray shirt to Home Depot and compare all of the paint swatches to your gray shirt.  

8.  Find Gray Area by Behr.  

9. Home depot employee comments that the color is similar to your shirt.  "Yes! Exactly!  That's what I was going for!"

10.  Show the paint to your dad who comments that the wall must first be patched, mudded, sanded, mudded again, and then you can paint. 

11.  Hang your head in defeat because Nothing. Is. As. Easy. As. It. Seems.  

This is the color that I picked.  It is Gray Area by Behr. 

And let me tell you, I'm wishing and hoping that this is the final paint purchase for the master bedroom. Someday, the paint will actually be on the walls!