Finally, my family room is painted!

I have been really busy, wrapped up in trying to find the perfect color for our dark cave of a family room. This room has been Behr's Swiss Coffee since we bought the place. Yeah, a great trim color, according to CL magazine, but not a wall color. Yuck. At least in our light, or lack thereof. It looked like a dingy dirty greyish white. I needed the perfect color, and for 16 months (yeah, I had a baby 7 days after moving in, a C-section no less, so there were priorities, you know) I stalled and whined and couldn't find that perfect color. You know the one, the perfect beigey, creamy, oatmealy, ivory. A wheaty yellowy cream. That Ballard Designs french vanilla color.

So I bought about 14 samples. Every "wheat/semolina/pasta" color I tried turned highlighter yellow on our walls. Yuck. So I went cream. Still too yellow. I went brown. Too fleshy. I went "Oklahoma Wheat". Looked like a bad suntan. I gave up. I talked to my husband. Again. I cried. Again. I finally took my husband's advice {heaven forbid} and went one shade lighter than the nice, neutral tan we had in our last house, Alpaca by Ben Moore.

Turns out it was the *perfect* shade of coffee-n-cream ice cream with a slightly yellowy vanilla beige tint. Confusing, I know. It's Malton by Ben Moore. Who knew my husband would be right in the paint color department? So irritating; he will taunt me for days.

Here it is, in all it's you-can't-really-tell-on-the-digicam glory:


I will try and post more pics of the completed room soon. I am still rehanging pictures and putting stuff back. And yes, I too have design ADD and reaccessorize this area constantly.