Decorating Woes Part 1

Man oh man! I have really had a lot of fun deciding what to do with our new home. That being said, I’ve also ran into quite a few frustrations! When we first started painting, I went to ACE to get the paint for the kitchen. It matched perfectly! So, I when we decided to move onto the dining room and living room, I figured I’d just go ahead and get all the paint I would need, just so I wouldn’t have to make another trip to the store.

When we were looking at paint for the living room, we knew we wanted to do a warm, welcoming color. I was looking at browns, but didn’t really like the yellow undertones in the paint. I found this color called Crossroads, and loved the way it looked. It was still a brown, but it had a gray sort of tone to it. I went to Ace and purchased the three gallons that I would need.

We started painting the dining room that night. It was looking good so far, but it was still wet. By the time we came to the house the next day, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing…I had PURPLE walls. Now, I really do like purple. I liked it enough to have it be the main color in my wedding, but I didn’t want a purple dining room and living room! Jeff swore up and down that it didn’t look purple, he kept telling me that he thought it looked great, and not to worry.

Well, as soon as my mom comes in, she tells me it looks purple. Then, Jeff’s cousin Amy came over and said she like my purple dining room. That was it! I told Jeff I couldn’t handle it and needed to change it before we moved everything in. Thankfully, we had only painted parts of the dining room, so we didn’t add to much work to our already growing list of things to do.

I head back down to ACE, hoping that they might take my unused, unopened, mixed purple paint. No deal. I hated wasting the money, but it’s all a learning experience. This one just happened to cost me $65.00! I keep telling myself that I’ll paint our master bath that color, but the more I look at it, the more I hate it.

We picked out another brown and even did a darker accent wall where the tv sits, and we couldn’t be happier! Now, I just need to pick out some cute stuff to go on our bare walls!