Painting before Unpacking!

In my last post, I mentioned we were finally closed and moved into our new home! Before I had even finished unpacking the essentials, I found myself in line at home depot, buying paint samples. The colors I chose initially in the store were sooo promising, and I knew for sure they'd be the ones!



top to bottom, Glidden Tropical Surf, Sea Spray and Totally Teal

They appeared to be the perfect blue/green colors I was looking for! After brainstorming with my sister and a friend, I decided to go with the lighters color for the entire main living area, including the hallway and entry, the middle color for two accent walls in the kitchen, and the darkest color for my plant shelf that is in the wall above the kitchen.


Well thank god I bought samples. Because they looked NOTHING like this on my walls. This is the lightest shade on my living room wall(one on the far right):

L to R, Glidden Icy Teal, Gentle Tide and Tropical Surf

Yes, it really did look that baby blue in real life! and the darker shades didn't look any better... So back to home depot I went, and this time I got Icy Teal (far left) and Gentle Tide (middle), both Glidden again. I'd seen Gentle Tide all over the internet, and even though it is a discontinued color, they were able to look it up by name in the computer. It almost was "the one" until the sun went down and it became almost mossy green. Not was I was going for!\

The medium shade in the kitchen wasn't any more promising. I didn't even bother to paint a sample of Totally Teal.

Left color is Glidden Sea Spray, Right Behr Gulf Winds

One last trip to Home Depot, and this time I went with two lighter shades, and then two darker shades, all from the same color card except one.

This is the color cards for the ones I ended up choosing.

I picked one other color not on those cards, Behr Tide Pools, as a possible for the living room. These are those two colors:

Left- Behr Tide Pools, Right Behr Aqua Breeze

All the colors on my wall!

While Tide Pools is a really, really pretty color, it's not what I'm going for. I LOVED aqua breeze and the coordinating darker shade, Gulf Winds for the kitchen. I haven't yet painted a spot of Hallowed Hush, but it looks beautiful. It was really hard to photograph the Aqua Breeze, but here's some more shots.

That last photo is probably the truest representation of the color. I've finished painting the kitchen(coming soon), so I tried to take a corner shot of the two colors next to each each other.

I'll be posting the finished kitchen paint job soon!