From the moment my husband and I first visited the home that we bought a little over a year ago, we knew we’d need to change the colors of the walls inside our house. The hallway, living room and master bedroom were a mint green color that appears to have been original décor from the house’s early 1970s origin. The dining room and bathroom were a beige color that reminded me too much of the long line of rental apartments I’d lived in over the years. The kitchen may have been the worst. The walls were a shade of white (who knew white had so many shades?) and there was a floral wallpaper border around the top and at chair rail height. The second bedroom was the only room in the house with a nice color- a pretty, pale blue.

I actually picked up some paint chips before we had even closed on the house. But a year later, the walls were still untouched. Finally, we decided to start picking out some colors. We had seen an article in Consumer Reports that ranked Behr paints high in several categories, so we headed to Home Depot to look at paint chips. I’ve read numerous books, magazines and web site articles and watched countless television shows about decorating, almost all of them including some sort of color choice. In fact, there is a show on Home and Garden Television (HGTV) called Get Color that is completely devoted to color choices in the home.

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