Lots o' Fun With Colors

That's the sample of Nutty Beige.

I like working with color in a home. Color is fun for me and I've always felt I had a strong sense of what looked good with what, in the colors around me.

Boy, was I having a tough time with the color of the latest room--a bedroom.

I made trip after trip to Home Depot for those little sample jars of Behr Paint, and I really wasn't satisfied. After six samples! And I couldn't stand the thought of another trip to Home Depot.

So, I put up the two I liked best--or hated the least--and flung fabric around them and just stared at them for a week.

And that's the sample of Fall Mood.

I still didn't like either of them. And Mr. Chang, the painter, was arriving this morning at 8:00 to get the paint sample, while another man prepared the room. At 7:30 a.m. I was still dabbing paint here and there and couldn't make up my mind!

I had to pick one of the two.

I looked over the Behr paint chart I had been working with and decided I would do something pretty wild: I would pick one of the colors I had not yet bought a sample of. Winsome Beige looked good to me all of a sudden.



Indulgent Mocha had been too heavy, and Vintage Taupe, too gray. Nutty Beige was too yellow, and Heavenly Cocoa had too much blue in it. Fall Mood looked good, but I thought it was too dark. Maybe I just wasn't in a Fall Mood.

I picked Winsome Beige--without getting a sample of it. It looks great in there.

The room under wraps and being painted.

Maybe I had been trying too hard. Maybe color is a bit like love: you have to just roll with the feeling. If you chase it too hard it slips from your hands.

Winsome Beige it is ...



... and it came out great.