I’m getting my home painted and the work started yesterday. I was tired of the same old mellow yellow and the baby pinks and this time I truly wanted to experiment. I wanted to try out colors that are different. I also wanted to two colors for every room. So, after mulling over the color card for a few hours I chose wine red and bright sunshine yellow for my bedroom. For the hall, I chose aqua blue and pigment green. And another combination that I duly forgot for the other room.
The color combination looked great in the color card. But once it got onto the walls, it was a disaster of mismash. It looked like living inside a giant kaleidioscope. The worst was my bedroom. A shocked visitor to my home described it best after seeing the horrid wine red color. He said it looked like a village butcher’s shop. I also realized the fact that dark colors not only makes the room gloomier but also makes the room look smaller.
I swallowed my pride and asked the painters to scrape out all the paint and paint them in different colors. This time I played it safe and chose light pastel colors for the entire house. Now, not only did I waste money on expensive paints, I also had to pay quite a bit to scrape out all the paint. Just for the record, I realized that scraping out paint is thrice as hard as painting it.
One thing is for sure. Never ever ask me for my advice on colors.
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Kiruba,
Choosing paint colors is a v tough job and your failure explains a lot. What you should have done is gotten a 1 ft X 1 ft section painted on each wall with the chosen colors and lived with those colors for a few days before making the choice.
What looks like a certain color on a paint chip will look completely different on a wall. Also the rule is light colors for bedrooms or rooms where you tend to relax/sleep.
Plus those bright blue/dark red looks great on tv/ in movies and terrible in real life. Accent walls are the worst of all. Sorry you had to learn these lessons the hard way. Please post before and after pictures so we can see the horror.
Krebs,
Wine red and sunshine yellow? Come on! What were you thinking? I thought your favourites were hues of blues
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this post NEEDS pictures!!! wine red and sunshine yellow?! lol…
my first non-critizing comment
LOL! Kiruba the painter! How come others in home let you go ahead with the crazy idea?
photos please
WOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW
U must be crazy
now we know what the sri lankan journalists are going to learn from your greatness…
Pictures.. please! Pretty please!
That was a funny post. I know it wasnt so funny for you.. but then hey.. you made us a little wiser when it comes to painting our homes! 
Yes, Kiruba pics are a must with the post! Thanx to your experience, I was planning to get my apartment painted in a few months!
Check out this link….
http://muthuonline.com/archives/2007/09/05/gimme-some-color/
Another blogger’s painting Experience with pictures. But he had chosen better colors
http://muthuonline.com/archives/2007/09/05/gimme-some-color/
“One thing is for sure. Never ever ask me for my advice on colors.”
Ok, so you have a typical male brain
I feel kinda glad my sis-in-law is doing the color selection
Kiruba,
Sorry yaar! I just laughed while I read. But I can understand the toughness of choosing the color as am always struggle. Anyway, I feel light colors are good for the walls.
wine red? boss read up on colors to use in the different areas on the house.. but couldn’t help giggling
hey ! your post just reminded me of a suggestion…we painted our house recently…we chose a slightly-gree tinted white for the walls inside, and it worked out pretty well….the rooms look lit-up !
You could always do the paint bit in pastel colours…and then choose to do your interiors (like curtains,bed linen etc.) in bright hues like tangerine..or brilliant blues!
hope that was a wee useful!!
Wine red??!! Too many sharukh khan movies!!!
Chill!! Am sure things have fallen into place now that you have redone the whole stuff!! Quite a laff i should say!!
A quick update: It took one whole day to just scrape out paint from two walls. The work will continue today and tomorrow as well.
I know many of you wanted to see the photos. Managed to take a few on the mobile phone. Will get down to posting it soon.
Cheers!
On the other, I guess it would really help anyone when they resort to you asking for colours.
Ahem… Photos please.
The blogging tragedy
it was a disaster of mismash
wtf? Kribs, you have no equal in the blogosphere. Rock on mate! Here’s to to more ‘pearls of wisdom’ and ‘hidden gems’ in the nuggets of your thought. Cheers!
Kriuba….
ur taste rocks kribs…u r great….always u do crappy work
Kribs,
Leave the job of chosing colors to ur better half. Generally females are better in picking colors.
Reflex, Mrs. Kiruba has a real job so she cant afford to spend time doing chores like these – our man Kiruba on the other hand…
OMG..some comments are funny albeit retarded…LMAO
Kiruba’s paint tragedy kya bha Kiruba paint me red
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