Guacamole Does Not Belong on Walls

As it turns out, picking colors from sample cards is not my superpower. In fact, of the three colors that I bought samples of today, I like exactly 1 of them. I'm going to let them dry overnight, and see how I feel about them in the morning, but at the moment, I'm feeling dismayed. The mid-range slate blue in the bedroom looks pretty good. That, however, only makes the grocery-store guacamole green in the dining room and the strangely orange looking brown in the living room seem even worse.

I wasn't going for a wall full of guacamole. I was hoping for a sort of mid-range sage green. Something cool and calm, but also somewhat reminiscent of a library.

I wasn't going for orange in the living room, either. I wanted a slightly warm brown, something that would tie in subtly with the art I plan to hang in the room, and add a little brightness over the somewhat muted shade of carpet I picked.

Did I mention carpet? Because I spent almost $7000 at the flooring store today. Tomorrow, a crew comes to rip out the existing carpet. First part of next week, I get tile in the bathroom. I don't know what tile. It's a surprise, because I'm getting it free. I can veto what shows up if I hate it, but otherwise, I get what I'm given. Did I mention that it's replacing carpet? In the bathroom? Because it is. I don't want to tempt fate here, but I think it would be hard to be worse than carpet. In the bathroom.

Once I've finished the painting, I get the laminate in the bedroom and family room and unoffensive brown carpet everywhere else. (I wanted something very neutral that would be hard to stain. We'll see once it's down what I actually got.)

And once I have flooring, I can start moving my stuff in. This is getting exciting!