Earlier this week I shared with you my top living room color choices for our living room painting project.  In case you missed it, here’s a reminder.

So the boyfriend and I painted the whole living room  2 coats of flat paint in Sherwin Williams Versatile Gray.  I made the final call as far as paint color and unfortunately I think I called wrong.  Is it too soon to regret the new color in the living room? Ideally, I would have recognized the mistake after we painted the first section of the first wall.  Well, these things don’t always happen ideally.  And if we’re really speaking ideally, then let’s just say it together: I should have painted samples on the wall before buying 2 gallons and painting 2 coats on every, single wall.

Oh well.  Here’s a before and after look at two of our main living room walls.

I actually really, really like the color.  But it’s gray.  And our couch is a greenish, brownish, sage-ish color with tan-beigey piping.  I wanted to match the wall color to the piping, but I picked a gray.  I didn’t pick anything from the tan-beige-sand family.  So I messed up, and I’m mad about it, but the boyfriend and the parents and one of my best girlfriends all love it and they think I’m crazy so I’m trying to just shut up and deal with it.  For now at least.

It literally makes me want to cry.  I hate the way the wall looks behind the couch.  I can’t think how I’m ever going to match furniture and a rug and reading chairs or just anything to it.  It all stinks. But like I said, I’m going to try to live with it for a while – at least while we buy some more furniture and start matching accessories to it, so … here’s to waiting.  And trying not to cry every night when I get home from work and stare at our green-brown couch in front of our gray walls.