Paint Nursery ... Check!

You'd think that owning a hardware store, I'd have no problem picking a paint color.  My favorite thing to do when I was a kid when I visited dad at work was to go look at the paint samples and pick out colors.  This -- coupled with the fact that we knew we wanted to use a baby bluish color for the room -- should have made picking out a color fairly simple.  I mean, how many different shades of baby blue can I find?

Well a lot apparently.

See, I'm not happy unless I exhaust all of my options.  Which means, in addition to all the baby blue swatches I could collect from True Value, I needed to collect the different shades of blue from Benjamin Moore, and then all the different shades of light blue Valspar makes at Lowes.  Scott, knowing it is easier than fighting me, (he's becoming wiser as the days go on) humored me and drove me all over the city collecting my little swatches.  I then laid them all out and surprise, surprise ... could not decide.  We decided which ones looked too grayish, which ones looked too purplish, which ones looked too "off" and landed on about 3-4 swatches to which Scott says "seriously, they all look the same, just pick one." (No they dont all look the same!)  Sooo...I took our top choices shopping with me on Sunday.  I walked my parents through Pottery Barn holding the swatch next to the bedding we want, the glider we're looking at, the rug we've chosen (they learned yeeaars ago its easier to just humor me), but I was still not convinced.  Ahh! Sky blue or clear blue sky!? (They are different, I swear!)

Monday night, Scott was like "Ok, decision time." I was like "But i dont know!" Scott was like "Any color we choose, we'll like." I was like "Um, do you not know me at all! If I don't like it I'll end up crying till we repaint it." So we decided on the only logical solution.  Leave it up to Maizy!

I am happy to report our doggie is awesome! We laid the swatches out on the couch and Scott said "Maizy, go pick the color for your little brothers room"  I kid you not, she climbed on the couch, went to each swatch, smelled it, moved on, and then upon deciding, licked the "sky blue" swatch and looked up at Scott with a "now do I get a treat" face! 

Soooo ... the little man's room is now painted with "Sky Blue" Valspar paint. And hey! I'm happy with it! It's bright and babyish and beautiful, but still boyish! (And while Scott and I were assessing mid paint job, Maize wandered in unnoticed to check out her choice and narrowly missed becoming a litte sky blue doggie herself!)

Now tomorrow we get to move the furniture in and build the crib! Yippee!

(Thanks for your hard work Scott!)