Sooooooo much better!!!!

Work hours since last post: 13. Pretty piddly, no?!? But...that's exactly what it takes for two people to get two layers of paint on a room (with lots of door and window frames, small corners, and NO paint tape!)...since that's pretty much all that we've accomplished this week.

We are slowly getting back to work and decided to start with our office re-do. Although we were 100% on board with repainting, I think our crazy blue blunder had us a little paralyzed in our decision-making abilities. After sleeping with the paint wheel under my pillow for a week (for inspiration) and a few hours in Anderson Paints, (talking to the salesman who thought we were insanely indecisive...but who was very helpful and even eliminated some choices from our stack for "personal taste." His personal taste. Not ours. But, hey, we were just happy to have less to choose from) we came back to the surface with Benjamin Moore Silvery Blue. Just like the name implies, it's definitely blue but has strong gray-ish undertones, which makes a perfect combination on four walls in a small room.

It's just what we were looking for and is so incredibly better. It's actually a bit more blue in person, but this is an idea of what we landed on.

We completely (maybe?) learned our lesson on this one. A color might be a pretty color on a 1x1 inch square of paper...or even on a 2x2 foot wall patch, but a "pure" color - any one in the spectrum - is pretty out of control when it's on all four walls of a room. We were initially super worried that our new choice would look gray and dull, but once the crazy old blue was completely covered...this blue is just right. We've learned not to fear the gray.

Funny story to prove our point. I discovered how helpful it is to google (shout out to my brother) prospective paint colors and see what it looks like in some room examples. I checked out Silvery Blue and ended up at this site discussing how to pick a blue room color. Low and behold...they are directly comparing our first and second attempts at a blue room. (They actually name Highland Breeze in the article, but we picked the color shown right above it - Morning Glory.) They're right on with their analysis - blue-blue could absolutely be considered "vibrating" while our gray-blue is soothing and peaceful.

So, now that you've seen how great it looks in the room (at least we think so!), here's a side-by-side comparison. I included a shot of our hallway in the last post, and it really highlighted the "glow" we had at night. Here are both hallway shots - before and after. Also called crazy-makes-me-twitch-a-little meets just right...

Before:

After:

Since I am now so grateful to sites that named walls colors for others to search, here's my quick shout-out: Benjamin Moore Silvery Blue....calm and beautiful. Benjamin Moore Morning Glory...I'm sure it has its place, but be careful!!!

Another short break for Thanksgiving - then we're on to the hallway and master bedroom so we can get the flooring started soon!