This time I compared each white to the existing color in our living room (wind’s breath, by benjamin moore). So back to the paint store to grab a few more samples. Snowbound was too stark, origami felt cold-ish. I bought two sample pots and painted little swatches on several different walls (origami white and snowbound, if you’re curious). We initially narrowed down our choices just based on the Sherwin Williams paint chips. Each color looks different depending on lighting, so a white that looks great in a friend’s house in Kansas City might not be the right choice for mine in Seattle. Some whites are cool (with blue undertones) others are warm (with yellow undertones), then there are those with pinky hues or grayish tints, bright whites that feel institutional, creamy whites that read yellow. So white was the obvious choice.īut have you seen how many different white paints there are?! It’s slightly obnoxious and overwhelming. It’s a fine color, but started feeling dark – especially during our dreary Pacific Northwest winters when the sun doesn’t show up much. We moved into our home 8 years ago and the walls and ceilings were all the same khaki-ish color. One peek at my living area pinterest board and you’ll instantly see what my eye is drawn to. I’ve been craving clean, fresh, light, bright. I felt ridiculous going back and forth, painting swatches, staring at five whites that looked exactly the same and yet I also didn’t want to waste money on a color that we didn’t love. There are a million bigger issues out there than choosing paint colors, I am well aware. And when you’re paying a bunch of money to have nearly every wall in your house painted, you really, really want to make sure you pick the right color. Yay for nice people who paint houses for a living! They do such amazing work and they are quick. I’ll tell you what, I may never go back to painting myself again. Besides the difficulty factor, it would also take us weeks, and we just don’t have time with kids and soccer and work and the holidays coming up. But the places that needed new paint the most – the stairway, ceilings, hallways and tall walls in the living room – were not areas I was excited about working on. I really don’t mind it and do a decent job. Well, once we pulled up all the carpet and existing hardwoods downstairs in preparation for the floor install, we decided it was the right time to paint the walls. We made our final selection, placed the order and have let them acclimate in the house for the past few weeks (sneak peeks coming!). I posted about our flooring options and it was helpful to run through all of the choices and hear what you had to say. In the meantime, we’re living in a construction zone with all of our furniture moved out and no stove to cook on (which just means eating out or at friends’ houses and I’m not complaining about that!). The floors were ripped up last week, the walls needed a fresh coat of paint and the new floors will be installed this week. We’ve been waiting years to do a few big projects to our house and finally took the plunge. We’ll give you full credit and a link back to your website or social media accounts.Our house is a disaster. If you have diagrams of your own you’d like us to publish contact us here. So going forward this page will only contain diagrams I’ve directly uploaded to this website that I know will never go offline. It’s also caused a fair bit of drama over the years and I don’t really want to deal with that. Also, once a site goes offline I can’t control what happens to those domains and some of these diagram links ended up going to questionable websites which I definitely don’t want. Every so often I’ve gone through and deleted the broken links which just makes this index smaller and smaller. The main issue is over the years since I originally built this list a huge number of the websites have gone offline and many of the links are broken. Originally I wanted to create an easy index for people to find diagrams but ultimately this section has caused more problems than it’s worth. After much thought I’ve decided to retire this diagram database section.
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