![]() ![]() One of my sweet friends from high school saw my post and sent me a message with pictures of her daughter’s old nursery, also painted “Fleeting Green”! Another childhood friend recommended her favorite Sherwin Williams color “Sea Salt”, just in case “Fleeting Green” didn’t work out. So many of you commented on my Facebook post, encouraging me and making me smile in spite of my frustrating paint situation. My Facebook caption for this picture read, “That moment when you’re painting a room you’ve been dreaming about for three years and the color is so neon baby blue that you can’t decide if you should keep going or quit… Does anyone else think it’s turning green around the top edge where it’s drying, or am I just viewing it through my hopes and dreams?”įriends, this is why I love social media and blogging. Was I just being overly paranoid, or was this room playing the same green-turns-blue-trick like the playroom? I snapped a quick cell phone picture and posted it to Facebook, asking people what they thought of the paint color. ![]() After a little while I started to get concerned. So I kept on going, sure that “Fleeting Green” was going to look perfect! But as the paint covered more of the walls and ceiling and started to dry, it looked even brighter blue. ![]() Right away I notice that the wet paint had a very blue look to it, but I told myself not to worry, because paint colors usually look different when they are wet. On painting day I sent the kiddos to the babysitter, cranked up some swing music, and started rolling the paint on the walls. After examining the color over several days I decided that it was the one and excitedly purchased two gallons! I painted two coats of the sample paint on poster board and leaned it against the wall in my daughter’s bedroom. Our plaster guy had just finished repairing the walls and ceiling and I hadn’t had a chance to prime everything yet, so I couldn’t paint the sample paint directly on the wall. I don’t have a Benjamin Moore paint supplier near me, so I found a Sherwin Williams color that was very close called “Fleeting Green”. She kindly responded, telling me that the dreamy color was “Lido Green” by Benjamin Moore. I commented on her blog asking her the name of the paint color she had used in her daughter’s room. When I saw this picture on Susan’s blog I literally gasped! It was exactly the shade of green with a hint of blue that I wanted in my daughter’s room, and I loved how it looked paired with the pink bedding. Of course, I had already decided that I wanted a different shade of green paint, lighter than our last nursery and with a slightly more blue undertone. He immediately suggested that we use the same green color that was in her nursery in our house down south. So, when my husband heard me say that I wanted to paint our daughter’s bedroom green, he knew that this process could potentially be headed for trouble. It was maddening! We finally ended up painting the living room a light gray that looks very blue in the light (“Aloof Gray” by Sherwin Williams) and the playroom a green that had more yellow undertones than blue (“Willow Tree” by Sherwin Williams). All my blue paints looked green on the living room walls but the exact same paint color dried blue in the playroom. It was crazy! The same thing happened with my blue paint in the living room. It was strange! And I’d think, “Perfect! I want light blue paint in the living room!” I’d run over to the living room and paint a swatch of the green paint that had just dried blue on the wall, and this time when it dried on the living room wall it looked green. Every time the green paint sample would dry on the playroom wall the color would change from green to light blue. I bought tons of little sample jars of paint to test out on the walls. ![]() So I got out my trusty fan deck of paint chips and started searching for the perfect paint colors. When we first moved in I decided I wanted to paint the play room green and the living room blue. The lighting varies so much, and the same paint color can look drastically different from one room to the next. I have painted and then immediately repainted more green rooms than I care to admit!įriends, we know from personal experience that our castle is tricky when it comes to paint colors. It can be a very tricky color because the undertones strongly influence how the color looks on the wall. I’ve purchased more samples of green paint than any other color. Over the years I’ve tried various shades of green paint including deep hunter green, earthy sage green, lovely greenish blues, and light almost neutral greens. I always like to paint at least one room in my home green because it’s so soothing and looks beautiful with blue, which is my absolute favorite color. Green paint and I have a complicated history together. ![]()
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