Day 20 of 31 days of prepping for the Holidays ~ CRYING OVER PAINT

I am beyond frustrated and actually have tears running down my cheeks.   

I wish I was kidding about the tears but crap the paint colors for this project have really put me to the test.

  I am usually pretty good about picking color but for some reason in this house I am having major problems.

If you recall the kitchen has been painted.  When we started painting it we chose a color called 

White Sand by Benjamin Moore

I had bought a sample of the White sand and painted some in the living room along with two other samples one being Linen White

the other being Cedar Key

There were other colors we had also sampled but they don't even make honorable mention.....so I won't mention them....bottom line they were in the "What was I thinking" category.  

So after much discussion it was decided we would paint White Sand in both the kitchen and living room since they open onto one another.  Off to the paint store we went and to get two gallons of the White Sand for the wall and one gallon of Linen White for the ceiling and trim.   We decided to tackle the kitchen first.  Once we started painting the kitchen I couldn't figure it out but the White Sand had an icky green undertone.  

I couldn't understand it because it didn't have that undertone in samples

we had painted in the living room.

  I wish I would have taken pictures.....

( shame on me....that is a bloggers golden rule....take pictures and take pictures of disasters)  

At any rate we abandoned using the White Sand in the kitchen.

It was agreed that we would try Cedar key in the kitchen and use the White Sand in the living room.   So the kitchen was painted Cedar Key.  Almost immediately my husband had voiced a concern that the Cedar Key had a pinky undertone.   I did see a pinky undertone in certain areas but I convinced myself that the Cedar Key would look AMAZING once I had the pictures hung and the room accessorized.

Well guess what.....the kitchen has been painted the pictures are hung and some accessorizing has been added and

HOLD ONTO YOUR SEATS

that pinky undertone is just not working.  

It isn't so bad in the daylight...but at night it looks 

worse than pink .....it is bordering 

LAVENDER!

The thought of repainting the kitchen makes me want to runaway...but there is no way around it....

we don't like it.......It just doesn't work.  It is going to be repainted....I am not sure when but the kitchen isn't going to be Cedar Key for very long.

And now this brings me back to the White Sand.....the color that looked great in the living room.  

Tonight I decided to paint three little walls and start getting that color into the living room.   Mind you I had already painted quite a bit on a sample wall.  

But I didn't start on that already partially painted wall. 

Holy Moly..Sometimes I wonder how my mind works......but that would take too long to figure out.  

Okay to make a long painful story short as I finish painting the first wall there is no denying it.  This paint has an icky green undertone!!!

What the heck???   I mean seriously what the heck??

I did have a luminaire that is fitted with a fluorescent lamp shining onto the wall so I am thinking it has to be the lighting that is making this paint have an icky green undertone......because as I look onto the other wall where I had paint the sample White Sand it looks great...I mean really great.

So I think to myself maybe when this color dries it will look like the White Sand I know and love......hmmmm.....no such like....even dry it has an icky green undertone.  

Oh Oh.......I realize I am starting to get upset.....I can feel those damn tears!!

I get myself together and decide to paint the wall that was painted with the sample White Sand.  This wall was the test wall and has many large areas covered with the sample White Sand.

  

SO GUESS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I PAINTED THE WHITE SAND FROM THE NEW GALLON OVER THE EXISTING WHITE SAND THAT I HAD PAINTED FROM THE SAMPLE PINT?

Yep you guessed it!!

The White Sand from the new gallon did not match the White Sand from the sample pint.   

Are you kidding me I say to myself.........There was something wrong with the new paint.   So I go get my paint chip and do something I should have done long ago......I take the paint and dab it onto the paint chip.......and yep you guessed it......

IT HAS AN ICKY GREEN UNDERTONE

Holy Moly........the paint had been mixed wrong!!!!

So the tears start rolling and I realize what a dummy I have been.   I never compared the paint chip with the color on top of the can.......I mean that is an amateur mistake!!

So at some point in the next few days when I get myself together......I get to bring back the two gallons of 

BAD 

paint and start all over again.

So now I need to focus on the positive ....

Hmmm.......What are the positives????

1.  I am going to be a very good painter.

2.   I am very good at seeing icky green undertones.

3.  If someone wants a pinky beige that looks lavender at night I know what color to suggest.

And one final positive thing is "AFTER ALL........

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY!!"