Paint

According to Crayola there are 133 different colors (remember when it was kind of a big deal when they announced a new color? Does anyone anywhere know why that was newsworthy?). Anyway, according to Charlie at Home Depot there are 37,894,209,480,749,231,742,374- then he proceeded to show me each one. I have no idea which colors play well with each other or how to figure that out, but before moving in I do know that I want to paint my walls. And I'm determined not to mess up on color choice cause that's a long term f@%k up (I realize you can always re-paint but I won't). So anyway, I searched online for a little help and ran across the image above. That wall is composed of three layers of magnetic paint underneath three more layers of chalkboard paint. The potential uses for a magnetized chalkboard in your living are too awesome to even conceive; but, sadly, I don't have a good wall to support that idea.

So back to the color choice dilemma, one way to not get inundated with all of those options is to head over to pottery barn and pick up their Benjamin Moore Color Wheel. They've hired people with wall painting color matching skills to create a color wheel each season. You can buy the paint off this color wheel from Benjamin Moore, or you can take the color wheel to Charlie at Home Depot and have him match the paint color for a fraction of the price. Either way, you've taken those 37 quadra-penta-two-nanillion color options and reduced them down to about 30.