Shades of beige

Our stucco came out way too dark, so we’re going to repaint.  Now we’re trying to do our research so we’re sure what color we want this time. It’s actually a lot harder than one would think just to pick a shade of beige already!

Here we are, running around to different buildings with a set of paint chips I cut out of brochures, trying to figure out which wall color corresponds to which paint chip. We took dozens of these kinds of photos, but I don’t think we’re any closer to picking a color.

Here’s a colorful building! Not that we’re going to paint our house yellow or pink, but we thought it would be a good one to try to practice matching paint chips. It’s surprising how light the chips look compared to the buildings themselves.

 

Here’s a nice boring beige, but even this one looks very dark from certain angles.

Here’s a nice one.

Hmmm, not finding a match…plus this one seems really dark close up.

I wonder if everyone thought we were crazy, excitedly running up to sides of buildings and taking close-up pictures of the walls on a busy Saturday afternoon.

It’s amazing how the same stucco can look vastly different depending on the lighting. Believe it or not, these next two photos are the same wall, and the paint chips, “adobe” and “cafe” are nearly identical.

John said the lower stripe on the Albertson’s store looked like “mashed poo”. But I’m like, no, mashed poo has more color in it than that. I mean, what are you eating?

This one’s too pink.

Can’t find a match for this one.

Hmmm, is that yellow or beige? It’s “wheat”! Do we even have a paint chip called “wheat”? No, but we should.

Here is an example of the “territorial” style like our house, which includes white trim and brick coping (along the top edge of the roof). This is a common stucco color used with the territorial style. Anyone know how to pronounce “Ochre”?