Confused cat is confused.

[puddingcat]

So my Plan was to paint most of my downstairs in a pale yellow (Crown's Pale Gold is nice) and then have the fireplace wall in dark reddish purple with the chimneybreast in a medium shade.

Mulberry Burst is lovely, but I don't want the whole wall that colour, or just the chimney, or just the bits either side of the chimney. There aren't any medium purples that don't turn out pink. Pale purples just look rubbish.

On the other hand, Proud Peacock and Teal Tension go with each other and are gorgeous. I need a room painted with them. But what about the blinds (olive green woodstain) and my sofa (dark blue & gold)?

Gah!

Comments

[professoryaffle.livejournal.com]

maybe you need to try this to help you pick colours, I managed 108, not sure how bad that is

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Let the cats decide? ;o)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I think something redder would be better than the purple one, like one of these:
http://www.crownpaint.co.uk/colour/439/english-fire.htm
http://www.crownpaint.co.uk/colour/448/flame-red.htm (I'm envisaging that looking a little paler than the square when it is on a wall in more light than exists where I am sitting at the moment!)
http://www.dulux.co.uk/servlet/ColourSchemeHandler?name=ruby_fountain_2
http://www.dulux.co.uk/servlet/ColourSchemeHandler?name=red_stallion_2

[moshesque.livejournal.com]

I love the peacock and teal! Hm, they'd go well with gold and olive, I think. Have you tried screencapping each of the colours of the different parts of the room and putting them next to each other on your desktop/in a program, see what you think?

[cabd.livejournal.com]

Is it just me who wants to find the person who names these colours and slap them till they come to their senses? There has to be some kind of hysteria going on here... "QUICK, we need a new name for this yellow... I know, 'blanched maize'"

These don't seem like the choices made by people in their right minds.