Musical Mist

Chaos reigns! The contents of my kitchen are reshuffled throughout the house. What happens when the room is empty. Well, of course, it shows that you really ought to paint the walls before you return the kitchen to its functional resettlement. Ah, and didn't the allergist say to wash or re-paint the walls due to the discovery of your cat allergy. And, true to form, another holiday week-end approaches. Don't holiday week-ends mean home improvement projects? OK. I give in. I'll paint the kitchen. Enter color choice phobia. Rekindle memories of Grandma's wonderful sense of color. What can be more perfect than my pink kitchen that doesn't scream pink? But my pink now looks dingey. The brilliance of the current color choice is that it is subtle. But does the new floor color demand something lighter to contrast the darker hues of the tile? Might it be wise to saturate the color just a bit more? Since the tile is very earthen in its tones, should I go in that color direction and maybe think more peach than pink to complement the rust of the floor tile? I have no leftover paint to take to Home Depot to try to match the current wall color. So I must look at the hundreds of colors on the paint display wall and try to figure what is going to look good in my house. As I review the Behr swatches it is obvious where my brain is telling me to go. I hover in one verticle row of colors. The lighter shades are the right tones. I check the Ralph Lauren whites and there are several good choices. (I always love Ralph Lauren colors - just not the price of the paint) However, none seem bright enough, but they do underscore my Behr choices/leanings. So bring home the color samples and see which ones seem to do it. I don't like trying to guess what a room is going to look like from a color card. Well, silly man, the answer is just given in the color name. There is no other choice. It must be Musical Mist whose dark counterpart is called Arizona Sunrise. And when the paint mixer puts in those little tinting blobs, what does he add? Brick red, yellow umbre & charcoal gray. Aren't those exactly the shades in the floor tile? Maybe there is just enough of Grandma's gene active in me after all. I just wish it didn't feel so daunting when I have to make a color choice. Stay tuned when the kitchen is transformed into a Musical Mist to find out if my instincts are right.