The girl’s room is low lit so that’s why the colors are coming out darker on my walls. This is why I take it step by step. You have to make decisions that change according to your circumstances. You cannot predict these things…especially if you do it the way I do it….which is to WING IT!

GOING LIGHT PINK. STILL HOPEFUL.

I decide to go light for the third color given the dark lighting circumstances.

The RUBY SHADE was too purple and I feared it would come off extremely dark. The ZANY PINK is also a bit dark with a tinge of yellow so with my tungsten lighting, it would surely come out looking like a Salmon Pink…which would make me reconsider the whole TECHNO color thing and do something drastic.

I go with this light pink called HOPEFUL. So fitting…

NOT!!

HOPEFUL turned out to be the most DREADFUL color. I was so disgusted by it I immediately ran back to the Sherwin Williams hoping they can just add some color and fix it. I felt super stupid because the guy working there was just telling me how they won’t let you come back and be like, it was the wrong color. You have to pay for another thing of paint. And look who’s back after only 15 minutes.

I found a color I like, named HOT. I ask the guy if he would be able to just add some color to the HOPEFUL pink and turn it into the HOT pink. He tells me it’s impossible because the base on the HOPEFUL is a white base and the base on the HOT is a dark base. Great.

I ask him to do the best he can to change it. After 4 times, the color changed from the lower right hand corner sample, going counter clockwise, getting gradually darker, and ending up with the lower left hand color. Shit. That ain’t gonna do it. Ok fine! I’ll buy another quart! I get the HOT pink.

You would think I would learn the second time and not just wing it on the color but I am now beyond HOPEFUL, I’m HOT. I run home to try my new color.

ACCESSORIZING: THE TRAYS

Because this third color is there for accents, I decide to paint the coat-hanger shelf thing with my new HOT color. In my excitement to see if I have found my answer to this design project that I’ve taken on, I forgot to take before pics. Here’s the after:

Yes, I think it’s a winner!

I paint an old red tray that I have from buying something at Armani with the same HOT color.

OMG, looks so great against the blue.

Some more accesories…

THE LAMP

The girls already had a lamp in their room that was actually, very similar to that purple RUBY SHADE from the brochure but now that I changed it to HOT, we make the lamp HOT.

I must say I really like the HOT pink color. It’s a very nice magenta with a HOT twist. Love it.

-Jane, Fan of HOT pink.

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