Day 54 & 55, Picking and Painting the final COLORS

Day 54, was 'Pick the paint the colors' day. The painters were gone and Sandy, my co-PM (left), Kerry Klien (center), our colorist and Michelle (right), D-Built's first lady, kick-off the picking party. Actually, Michelle just dropping by to pick up a scheduled payment (bye-bye cash!).

Kerry, Sandy and I spent five hours (11am to 4pm) discussing, documenting and finally agreeing on the paint colors to apply to our new walls and ceiling.


We changed our standard main white to 'Antique White, semi-gloss', for all base, molding, etc. inside the house will be painted this color. All ceilings will use that white tinted with 25% of the adjacent wall color.


We decided to use a Venice Plaster motif in two blue tones on one wall in the Entry.

The Kitchen and Living Room are to be painted in 'Tinkerbell Trail'. The Family Room and the Utility painted in 'Aged Parchment'. The back porch wall will be painted in 'Meadow Brooks' and the mudroom in 'Antique White" including the ceilings.

Now, we come to the Hallway, which we choose 'Pick of the Meadow'. This was not Sandy's first choice. Kerry presented a good case for this pick. I agreed it would work with the multiple colors found in the various hallway finishes.

So the paint selections were e-mailed to the painter to be applied the next day.

As witnessed, you can always get the pick of the litters. It may because the fumes from the various coating painters are asked to apply. Anyway, they do beat to a differ drum. Did I mention this one on the right is a Sargent in the Marines.

Below, Clint checks off the various paints and make sure he has the right colors for each room. There are a lot of separate design choices to keep in mind when getting the right color on the right wall.

 Ever what they think about when they are painting?

 

 Now we come to the green hallway, as of this writing Sandy doesn't like the color. She says it looks like "pea" green, don't let the Andersen Soup folks here you say that. This situation started when the painter called me, asking if we could change the tinted white ceiling to 100% wall color., I said OK. Ops, that started the green objection. As of this writing I e-mailed Kerry asking her to weight-in with re-instating the original ceiling standard or tinting the Antique White with 10% of the wall color. 

Stay tuned to see the fate of the our Hallway color in the NEXT Blog. 

I may get a new window in my office tomorrow.