Paint Woes

I am horrible at picking out paint. No... stores are horrible at naming paint. I knew what I wanted, I could see it in my head. Was it a paint option? No. Why name something "sidewalk thoughts". What the crap color is that?!?! I carried around a sidewalk thoughts paint chip for at least an hour. In my hand it was gray, under the special light they have shining down on all the colors, it was brown. Ok... so... what?? Im supposed to take this special light home and use it in my boy's room? I finally traded in "sidewalk thoughts" for "darby creek". Once again... what the crap kinda color is that??? Who comes up with this?!?!!? I wasn't 100% sure about it... but at this point I was ready to leave the store. The guy mixed it up and it was soooooo pale. He and I both were like "uhhh thats not right." After he finger dotted it on the lid and dried it, it got a little darker so I figured what the heck, it's already mixed up and I am not standing here for another hour looking at oddly named colors.

The color is actually perfect, just what I was envisioning. Kinda chocolate milk colored but kinda oatmeal colored. It's going to look perfect with his dark furniture and dusty blue paint striping.

Before:
After - but still Before the stripes:



We are now in the process of putting the furniture together while the paint gets good and dry... and we get mentally prepared for the applying the stripes.