More Squares of Paint

As I mentioned, Matthew from MFO Paints sat with us and went over various paint color choices for the various rooms. Today we went to "Paints by George" on McDonald Avenue (only five blocks from our apartment) and found swatches for all his suggestions. For today we narrowed down our tests to the two main colors to be used for the living/dining area and the bedroom. For the living/dining area we chose to buy test quarts of the Smoked Oyster for the accent wall, and the A La Mode for the remaining walls. And for the bedroom our accent wall color was a Misted Green with the remaing walls in a Gray Lake.

Smoked Oyster -- while we'd really wanted to like this color, we both agreed it came out much too dark and not disimilar to the current chocolat brown color in that room. We've decided to stay on the same test strip, as we like the warmth of the Smoked Oyster, but want a less opaque color. We're going to give Portland Gray a try next, still pairing it with the A La Mode.

Misted Green -- we loved it. It's kind of greenish, kind of bluish, and just very natural looking. We paired it with the Gray Lake that was from the same test strip and I am convinced they mixed the wrong color because the Gray Lake is very pink and looks nothing like the test strip. It was supposed to be a white with a very very subtle tint of green that would compliment the Misted Green but on the wall next to the Misted Green it looks straight out of left field. We'll have to go back to the drawing board.