It's A GRAY World!

Gray has never been a color I chose to live with other than the gray veins in my Carrera marble floors. I know I am among the few people left in the world that have not added  the color gray to my home décor.

Well that is about to change.  Our son’s bedroom needs painting, and he has requested GRAY!! Luckily he has very good taste and style so it is going to be a very soft gray. The other lucky thing is he will be doing all the painting!

I never, ever buy a gallon of paint until I have done swatches in the room. That’s’ right NEVER-EVER!!!

Color changes once it marries to the outside light streaming in a room, and to the objects in the room.

The other thing I do is swatch on a poster board. However, Home Depot has come up with a new-to-me swatch board that is actually contact paper you can paint and then put on your wall for only $1.00.

Great idea Home Depot, only a dollar plus the little pot of paint for $2.99. I would say for 1/10th of the price of a gallon of paint that is a pretty good deal.

The first color we chose to try was Behrs’ subtle touch……..

The actual swatch had a blue cast to it, but we thought that would work. WRONG, once we did a swatch it went towards a purple based gray.

Grays can go blue, purple,beige, or green. Once we saw the purple hue we knew we would need to try something more on the green side of gray so now we are going to do a swatch of Behr’s Silver drop….

Here is a picture of some swatches that another homeowner did…….

Since we want a very subtle gray this one looks like it might do the trick.

Here it is in a room, not my room, but it gives a nice soft look to the room…..

I do love the duvet cover and shams, not the floral, and look, it even has a letter, “P” pillow, could this be a sign.

I will let you know how this color works out after we do a swatch!

As Always……