First coat on the living room is finished! And the color is best mistake I’ve ever made. Or nonmistake, since it’s the perfect color.
I went to my local paint store after work and ordered 2 gallons of Sherwood Green. On the way home, I got to thinking. Was Sherwood the green I wanted, or did I want Georgian Green? See, I had tried out both colors in Benjamin Moore sample sizes. One was too blue-ish, and I was afraid it would be too overwhelmingly green when I put it on the walls. The other was more of a khaki green.
Sure enough, when I got home, the sample board I still had was labeled Georgian Green. Crap. Grabbed both gallons of paint and headed back to the paint store. Luckily, it’s only 10 minutes away.
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