A Painting Disaster

Last weekend we picked out some paint colors. One was called "Foreshadow" by Olympic Paints, and the other was "Gray Mare". We started painting last night (see post below) and it looked fine. This morning Andrew and I headed over to the house separately (so we could leave separately or run errands separately) and when I arrived he had already gone to pick up some bagels.

Imagine my surprise as I walked into a PURPLE room! And not like a cute purple, but the purple gray of diseased flesh. Yum. It was so disgusting, that I immediately ran to the restroom and vomited. Yes, the paint color made me vomit. Not exactly a good reaction to your new living room.

You can't tell, but this was it:


To prevent me from vomiting again, we quickly hurried to Lowes and picked up a couple of new colors. I am not in love with them, but Andrew is, so I compromised to make up for the purple puke.

Silver Spoon (by Olympic - which, BTW, is not the best paint). We also painted the dining room a darker gray (name is escaping me right now). We are only painting the top half of the dining room and we will paint the bottom half white.



The dining room by itself (Uncle Art and Auntie Annie stopped by a little to help paint...the smudge on the bottom half was Uncle Art getting too excited) :



Andrew almost had a vomit moment himself when he saw me testing out these two colors in the front guest room:


I also tested out a couple of yellow colors for our master bedroom. If you remember, I wanted to do yellow, black, and white.



Any votes on which yellow?

It's Andrew's birthday today, and we are heading out to sushi! With a coupon of course. :)