Paint blobs

G'day all!

I've been starting to get antsy about painting some walls around here. Purplexity has been painting the walls of her new place and I am like I WANT TO PAINT! I want to put my mark on the inside of this house! (Rather than simply wiping off the marks the previous inhabitants left... Mrs M I think used the walls for navigation and she was either minute or had bad osteoporosis ;-)

So two days ago, nathan and I rode up to Bunnings (like rode up on our pushbikes) and I eyeballed the paints and we brought home some sample pots in green. Bright cheerful green.

I decided that the fibre room is first under the hammer, or at least the paint brush and roller. I painted up some board as the paintshop lady suggested so we could get some idea of how the colours looked. I didn't like one of the greens - too yellow I thought as I painted it. One green is the same tonings but slightly darker than the kitchen. The other is obviously green.

The fibre room is currently these colours:

Do they look like me? A darker beige on the wall with the window, lighter beige all round, white cornices and a pale sage green roof. Hmm...

Then I painted some rough squares of colour on the walls in different places in each of the three greens.

Suddenly the green that was too yellow was a winner! (it's the middle one.) But an even bigger winner was just looking at the wall and thinking "I really like having the colour blocks on the beige."

So my current plan is to get some more sample pots in some different greens, lighter and darker shades, not too much darker, and get a little roller and just paint squares on the walls! I have thought about masking taping the wall up so that we have the beige background with happy greens on it but I don't want it too sqaure and geometric.

It will be different! And if it doesn't work, we'll just paint the whole lot green.

:-)