Paint Colors

Caroline offered to walk through the house with me on Wednesday so I am going to bring our extra set of paint chips (Brian was a genius and picked up another set) and show her and see what she thinks.

What do you guys think?

This house is going to be a 4 bedroom house. The fourth bedroom will be used as an office. We will be painting all 4 bedrooms and the dining room.

Guest Bedrooms:

Icy Teal: Guest room #2 or #3

Softest Juniper: Guest room #2 or #3?

Sweet Baby Boy: Bedroom #2 or 3

For the guest rooms so far Sweet Baby Boy and Softest Juniper are our favorites

Master Bedroom:

French Country Blue: Master

Whatever we don't decide for the guest rooms could be used for the master if we decide we like it that way as well.

Dining Room:

Forest Khaki

Barely Jade

Barely Jade is almost white....so I am leaning against it. It first started out as a bedroom color but quickly got moved to the dining room

Office:

Sea Glass Green

Antique Silver

Pacific Khaki

Frosted Pine

Sea Glass, surprisingly, and Frosted Pine are our top two favorites so far for the office. The antique silver is third. Pacific Khaki is just too light...maybe for the dining room but I am not sure.

Yes Brian and I like Blues and Greens. Brian hates bright yellow and the rest of the house will be painted a light yellow. A pastel red/orange is pink/peach-ish and we don't have a baby girl yet...and even if we did have a baby girl I don't know if I want such a gender specific paint color. Yes I know one of the guest room paint colors is "Sweet Baby Boy" but I know I can still make the color work for either boys or girls. It is easy to make some blues feminine while next to impossible to make any pink/peach suitable for a boy. Also, we feel like the bedrooms should be warm inviting colors and the brown spectrum just feels so cold and formal hence why we are liking it for the Dining Room.

I know we are testing these colors out in the apartment and that the apartment is not the new house but we don't think that will make that much of a difference. We both will either like or dislike a color regardless of the location and the lighting is very similar in both properties. Also, regardless of where we are the blinds will be drawn and the house kept dark because of Brian's eyes so while yes you want to make sure the paint looks good with the blinds open, a dark room looks like a dark room. What we are hoping to do is eliminate a few colors and then see where the new house takes us. Also, Caroline also has a great eye for color so I am hoping she can lead us in the right direction.

What do you think of the colors?