When I was thinking about moving into this house, the tv room/family room/rumpus room was one of the few rooms I thought I didn’t want to re-paint.  It was a warm sort of olive green.  Not my favorite color, but not terrible.  But after about 8 hours in this room, I hated it.  It was dark and depressing.  The blinds were dark.  The lighting was dark.  It was the color of pea soup.  I don’t even like pea soup!

This, unfortunately, is what I actually lived in for weeks.  A dark, depressing pea soup dungeon of piled-up furniture.

The big problem was: what color to paint it!  By the time I settled on a color, there were 44 paint chips taped to the walls of this room.  44 shades of everything from emerald green to lavender blue, even cream, and seven big swatches of paint.