Repainting the livingroom... again

In our old house, we had a room we were never happy with. I wound up repainted the wainscoting on a near month basis. However, it was the bathroom, a small bathroom, and it took half a quart of paint, and about an hour to do this. In our current house, the room we having been happy with, and have been repainting on a monthly basis, is the living room/dining room stretch, which is huge, takes over a gallon of paint, and has lots of horrible edges to cut in.

At first we were experimenting with golds, and they were ok, but we couldn't really find a shade we both loved. Having two shades of wood to work with was very difficult. Erik liked this one:





Which I agree was pretty in the sunlight, but it was so boring at night, in artificial lighting. At night, I liked this one a lot:



Which Erik totally vetoed. So we tried a green next. It had it's moments for sure, but often looked like it belonged in a nursery.


So we cast out nets a little wider, tried some pretty...


And not so pretty colors...






...but couldn't find something we both wanted to see all over. Until I picked up this little diddy on our last trip to Eugene. It's a ralph lauren color, which means natural pigments, and it will pick up wildly different tones depending on the light. It may look blue, but it's made of rust brown, ochre, and cool black pigments. I love it more every day.