Paint, Glorious Paint

We really stretched the color wheel on the variety of colors we used in our new space.  See if you can match the paint we used to the room:

Mountain Hideaway

Whipple Blue

Nantucket Fog

Shy Cherry

Blue Wave

Restrained Gold

Hazelnut Cream

Early sunrise

Peony

Calypso Orange

Yellow Lotus

Limesickle/Minced Onion blend

Old Prairie

Practical Beige

Pear Green

Soren and Lachlan's room (1 color)

New Bathroom (1 color)

Janessa's closet (1 color)

Janessa's room (3 colors)

Dining Room (1 color)

Living room (1 color)

Jansen's room (2 colors)

Master Bedroom (1 color)

Master Bathroom (1 color)

Downstairs Hallway (1 color)--the color around the Christ picture.

Sunroom/ Homework Room (1 color)

Upstairs hallway (2 colors) the color around the Parables picture is our 5th choice, and the color around the doorway is our 6th and final choice.  They ended being so similar that we haven't finished repainting this small section with paint color #6.

Does name matter?  Evidently so!  I came across two paint colors that were so alluring by name, I just had to use them somewhere in the house, regardless of what they looked like.  These were interior designer custom mixes for the Benjamin Moore line:

"Not Enough Chocolate Syrup, Mom." (which is what we painted the downstairs hallway in)

and "Hot chocolate and warm blanket on a cold winter day."

I mean, who really wants to say, "We painted our living room Practical Beige?  Doesn't that sound like the most boring color in the universe?  Despite the name, it looks great.  And honestly, the chocolate syrup color is just a little lacking.  But oh, what a cool name!

Answers to the quiz:

Mountain Hideaway:  Master Bathroom

Whipple Blue:  New upstairs bedroom

Nantucket Fog:  Jansen's Room

Shy Cherry:  One wall in Jansen's room

Blue Wave:  Soren and Lachlan's room (look for pirate wall murals to come!)

Restrained Gold:  Master Bedroom

Hazelnut Cream:  downstairs hallway (matched to Not enough Chocolate Syrup Mom!)

Early sunrise:  Janessa's room

Peony:  Janessa's Room

Calypso Orange:  Janessa's closet

Yellow Lotus:  dining Room

Limesickle/Minced Onion blend:  The 5th color we chose for the upstairs hallway, but it still wasn't quite right.

Old Prairie:  The 6th and final color we chose for the upstairs hallway!  We have a winner!

Practical Beige:  The living Room

Pear Green:  the Sunroom/Homework Room