Paint: ARGH!

It never fails. Every time I finish a house painting project, I regret something about it. When I painted some accent walls in my kitchen red, I loved the color but I was upset I'd used semi-gloss paint because it was so distractingly shiny. When we painted our bedroom in our old house, I was mad that I'd bought tinted paint for the ceiling instead of plain old white. I can never get it right.

Well, this time around, after spending all day Saturday clearing furniture, taping, and painting two coats in the girls' room--while the kids were at Grandma Swings and Brian was moaning with a man cold on the couch--I stepped back and realized the color was horribly wrong. It was so beautiful when it was wet, I wanted to lick the walls. But it dried to a hideous, shockingly bright pink. Instead of thinking "yummy strawberry ice cream" when you walk in the room, you think "save me from the scary bubblegum glare!"

Probably your computer screen doesn't do it justice. It's awful, trust me.

You see, in our old house I had painted Maggie's room a yummy pink color that I absolutely loved and wanted to duplicate here. But after searching through my stash of paint chips, old drop cloths, and even my spattered paint clothes, I realized that I don't have a sample of that color anywhere. I don't even have a photo of her old bedroom! (And it was so cute--it looked like there was eyelet lace hanging from the ceiling over that delicious pink.) This is the only picture I could find:

Awe, look at baby Maggie with her Grandma Camper...

Anyway.

The funny thing is, this bubblegum pink is very, very close to the old pink, it's just too bright. If a color overpowers you with a sudden desire to run to the nearest basin, you know it's too bright.

So, there's nothing to do but re-tape and re-paint the room tomorrow. I can't have a nursery that I have to run out of as soon as I walk in. Hopefully, a) I get the right color this time, b) Maggie and Matthew feel like spending a day watching cartoons, and c) my back holds out (I am seven and a half months pregnant and very fat these days...).