Things I’ve learned, that everyone else already knew, when painting a room:

(1) Preparation is 90% of the work.  Just clearing out the room, covering furniture, using masking tape, covering the windows and doors,  can be the most time-consuming step….except for the item (4).

(2) There’s a thing called primer paint….what this basically means is that you will be painting the room twice.

(3) Color Samples on a 1″x2″ card are no indication of what a room will look like when it is completely covered.   That nice calming green sample card can turn into a radioactive, neon, sunglasses required, room.  I’d suggest picking up a quart each of the 4 colors you’ve narrowed it down to.  Paint a different section of your wall those colors and then decide.   Don’t do the whole room and then make a judgement.

(4) Ya know in step (2) when I said you’ll be painting the room twice.  I lied. You won’t like the first color you paint, so you’ll be doing it again.  If you do like the first color…wait a day and look again…bet you don’t now.

(5) Remember that original color which was on the walls prior to painting.  That was a nice color wasn’t it?  Wonder if I can still get a gallon of that.

(6) Acceptance:  After a couple of days…that new paint actually looks pretty good.