How to pick a paint color....the "mom with nails" way....

1) Buy samples, and put them various places in the room; look at the samples on various walls, at different times of day, in different lights;

2) Wait three months, and still not make a decision.

3) Hire a painter, and find out he can come IN TWO DAYS, which translates into 12 hours from NOW.

4) Lean on the creative assistant, who ignores you for his guitar;

5) Lean on the creative assisant's assistant, who has that "all these colors look the same to me " look on his face, and realize that he will be no help;

5) Compare said samples of furniture, paint, and future curtain fabric trying to feel led toward one or the other:

6) Realize you still have no clue, but are headed to Sherwin Williams at 8am to buy paint anyway before the painter is here at 9am.

7) Hope for the best.

8) Hope the fabric store still has this fun funky floral fabric that is driving the whole room, since you have, well, put this off for months.