Painting outside and inside

The outside of the house is all painted. Luckily the weather was warm enough last week to finish up! The stone work around the garage is all finished as well. What do you think of the final color choice? We changed at the last minute to Dry Dock, which was a less pink of the two choices...glad we did. The house looks plenty pinkish in the late afternoon sun.

The interior doors were delivered...soon to be installed. 

Now on to the tougher decisions of inside paint colors.

 

We first chose three colors that were off-white/tan. The lightest color on the wall is one of those three...the others looked nearly identical! Next we went much darker and tried the darkest two colors on the wall. We were afraid that colors this dark would make the smaller rooms feel too small. So we finally compromised on the second lightest tan color. We think it will be lighter than the cherry cabinets and the maple floor, but darker than the white ceilings. If we don't like it, we can always paint over it in a couple of years! Apparently 6 different test samples isn't that bad...some people go through many more according to the painter.