I can’t tell you how blissfully happy I am with the new bedroom paint job, it’s so fabulous. Thought I’d pass on a few paint picking tips since everyone always comments on how great my paint choices are:

Don’t be afriad of color. It’s not a scary monster. I know you will want to lean towards the lighter more pastel shades, everyone does - but don’t.

The first couple passes of a darker bold color with a trim brush will be shocking to your senses, you’ll doubt your decision, you will have color distress in your heart. It’s normal. Just grit and bear it. Once you see all that bold color up you will LOVE it. I swear, you will!

Always pick at least one shade darker than the color you want on the card. Seriously, color reads lighter once on a big ole’ wall and not crammed against other colors. Once it’s all by itself on a wall with your windows casting all that pretty light on it it will look almost exactly like the lighter color you wanted to begin with.

As an example I actually liked the middle blue color but I alwaysgo one or two darker knowing it will look lighter and it always works out as you can see.

You’d never guess it was darkest color on the card. When you hold the card up to the wall you can see it’s a dead on for the darkest one

Anyway, that’s my advice for those painting - be not afriad of color!