How naive of me to think that it would be easy to find my perfect shade of gray.
11 shades later--I'm pretty sure we found the perfect one(s): dolphin-fin & classic silver in the satin enamel sheen. Can you tell which ones they are (bad lighting, but it's what we used to baseline how bad/good the color would look in the worst conditions)?
The unexpected trickery was finding a shade without the dreaded blue/purple undertones. No one wants an 80s denim flashback to acid blue or pastels. A lot of days of picking the "perfect" color, painting, staring in shock, taping paint chips to compare, staring at the tester, the wall, the halogen light bulb (bad)... rinse & repeat 11x.
We ended up with Behr because we scored $$$ in gift cards from credit card points. After reading some blogs, probably should have gone Sherwin Williams who seem to carry more pure tone grays.
It took all of 5 days to paint the living room/kitchen/dining combo downstairs. James insisted on sanding the baseboards (day 1), prepping and edging the walls (day 2), then coat after coat of paint (day 3, 4), and finally clean-up and touch-up (day 5).
Walls were voraciously absorbing paint. Seeing as they were an awful chalking dirty white before, I don't blame them for being excited for quality.
Kitties were excited, they love plastic and getting in the way. Stella insisted on lounging on her favorite chair no matter what.
I love the end result! If you look at our patio door, you can really see the difference in the original versus old trim color (bleh). I kind of like the difference on the doors, but definitely glad we changed it from that horrific beige to that nice shiny white.
oooh, what kind of ‘white’ did you end up picking for the trim though?
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– Robert