Well, after a week off of school and many play days and fun, today just had to be errands and house catch-up day. There just was no other choice!
I did make it to Sherwin Williams to pick out a step color of paint for the basement steps. The salesman helped me pick a great floor and porch paint that will be very durable.
I took a large piece of the floor with me, as the first colors I brought home were way too dark. I picked a few, and one stood out as a color that looked good with the colors in the cork. Then I noticed that I was on the same paint card as the recent paint in my downstairs....this would be the darker color of the two colors in my kitchen and family/living/dining rooms. That must be a sign, right??
Maybe, maybe not. I tend to like darker browns, leaning towards the chocolate colors, but they were the ones that were too dark. My first swipes of color with this color is.....well....less than exciting. And when Brad came home, his first comment was "It reminds me of diarrhea". And he's right. It's really that horrible and exactly what I was thinking. And I still like it on the paint chip....so how in the world will I pick another color and feel good about it? I think I'm headed back to good old chocolate brown.
Well, how bad is it? (This is where I post a photo for you to see, if I could put my hand on my camera, which I can't, but after that description, I know you don't want to see it anyway! Hopefully by the time I get a picture it will look smashing. And not like .... well, anything that you don't want to be reminded of).
So this is a reminder of my word for the year: Step. One at a time, in this case, literally. Maybe I'll use up all my samples from over the years and have rainbow steps! That would be a happy way to enter the house every day, wouldn't it?
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