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How to Handle Wrong Paint Color Choices · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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Speaker 1: Well, the morning, everybody, Happy Saturday. You're listening to the
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Speaker 1: repcal Light Home improvement Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore the
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Speaker 1: shoe sponsored by Benjamin Moore. I don't know why I
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Speaker 1: said it that way. I was trying to be sophisticated.
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Speaker 1: I guess maybe using sophisticated accents. It's just the same
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Speaker 1: old repcal Light Home improvement show, So don't get all
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Speaker 1: excited anyway, before I get into the real meat of
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Speaker 1: the show, the really, really good stuff, I do have
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Speaker 1: a quick thought to share. It's just something rattling around
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Speaker 1: in my head this week. You know how they say
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Speaker 1: that there are no dumb questions, right, We've all heard that,
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Speaker 1: and we know that's not entirely true, right. You know,
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Speaker 1: I encourage everybody out there. I encourage my kids myself
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Speaker 1: ask questions. You know. It's how we grow, it's how
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Speaker 1: we learn. But let's be honest, some of those questions
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Speaker 1: they're pretty bone headed, they're pretty dumb, and maybe part
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Speaker 1: of the process, the learning process, is just asking a
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Speaker 1: question and then learning how to be laughed at when
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Speaker 1: the question is dumb. You know, that's still good. It's
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Speaker 1: good to learn anyway. Case in point, this is what
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Speaker 1: I want to get to. I was at the library
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Speaker 1: the other day, minding my own business, you know, just
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Speaker 1: perusing the area and looking at all the books on
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Speaker 1: the shelves, And as I happened to pass the main desk,
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Speaker 1: I overheard a young guy walk up and in a
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Speaker 1: very clear and very loud and public voice, he asked
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Speaker 1: this question. He said, excuse me, but do you have
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Speaker 1: a policy about people taking books, you know, into the bathroom?
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Speaker 1: Because I'd really like to read this one, but I
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Speaker 1: don't want to break any rules. Well, I froze mid
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Speaker 1: stride because I thought this was comedy gold waiting to happen,
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Speaker 1: waiting to happen right in front of me. I half
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Speaker 1: expected some sort of library police force to repel down
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Speaker 1: from the ceiling, tackle the guy on the ground, and
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Speaker 1: then pry the book from his hands. But no, that
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Speaker 1: didn't happen. The librarians. They just sat there, smiled politely
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Speaker 1: and said, we prefer that the books don't go into
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Speaker 1: the bathroom with you, as if this is just a
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Speaker 1: routine interaction, right like this question comes up a lot.
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Speaker 1: The guy blinked and nodded, you know, made sense to him,
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Speaker 1: and he said, yeah, that is a little gross, I guess,
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Speaker 1: to which the librarians responded, you know, calmly, politely, with
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Speaker 1: no judgment. Yes, quite well. The whole thing was really
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Speaker 1: funny to me until I started looking at the shelves
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Speaker 1: and shelves of books all around me, and suddenly I
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Speaker 1: had one single thought going through my head. What if
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Speaker 1: other people don't ask? I mean, really, any of these
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Speaker 1: books could have spent time in a public restroom stall,
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Speaker 1: or maybe plopped down on the floor at some point
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Speaker 1: in the exchange or the interaction or whatever's going on
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Speaker 1: in there. I could be handling a bathroom floor book
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Speaker 1: at this very moment. But I swept those thoughts from
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Speaker 1: my mind. You know, one look at the librarians. That
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Speaker 1: told me it's very unlikely that anybody's going to sneak
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Speaker 1: a book into the bathroom past those guys, those ladies,
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Speaker 1: they were vigilant, they were egoied. They were the guardians
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Speaker 1: of these tomes of knowledge and entertainment. But they don't
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Speaker 1: go home with us. That was the next thought that
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Speaker 1: went through my mind. The librarians, they stay here. Heaven
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Speaker 1: only knows what these library books have seen in the
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Speaker 1: homes of John and Jane Public right. I'm not a
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Speaker 1: germaphoe by any measure, but man, just thinking about what
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Speaker 1: some of these library books may have experienced really made
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Speaker 1: me shiver. You know, I wonder when they come back,
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Speaker 1: if they're all deposited in some kind of decontamination chamber,
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Speaker 1: you know, are they all bathed in UV light when
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Speaker 1: they come back? Is there some sort of scanner maybe
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Speaker 1: that will alert the staff that this book won't won't
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Speaker 1: won't won't won't this book has spent time in a
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Speaker 1: bathroom in somebody's house. And if that's the case, is
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Speaker 1: the book, you know, immediately decommissioned at the point is
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Speaker 1: the person who brought it, you know, home? Is that
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Speaker 1: person deprived of library privileges for life? My goodness, what
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Speaker 1: a can of worms that one simple question opened in
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Speaker 1: my mind. Was it a dumb question? Was it a
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Speaker 1: good question? I don't know. I don't even care anymore.
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Speaker 1: It was a scary question. Anyway. That's neither here nor there.
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Speaker 1: It's just my random thought for the week, and I
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Speaker 1: wanted to share it with somebody, And since I work
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Speaker 1: in a building all entirely by myself, there's nobody to
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Speaker 1: share that with. So it gets to be you all,
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Speaker 1: all right, let's get to the show this week. What
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about is something that hits a
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Speaker 1: little too close to home for a lot of us.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about what happens when you pick
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Speaker 1: the wrong paint color. Now. I just went through a
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Speaker 1: painting project myself, and this question was front and center
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Speaker 1: in my mind the entire time that I was working,
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Speaker 1: you know, did I get the color right? And as
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Speaker 1: I work through the project, I was second guessing, questioning, analyzing,
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Speaker 1: and doing all of those things. And as I did that,
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Speaker 1: I came across a few really helpful insights that I
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Speaker 1: do want to pass along. These things kept me saying
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Speaker 1: in the process, and I'm certain they're going to help you,
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Speaker 1: because really, there is nothing that I'm aware of that's
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Speaker 1: more frustrating in a paint project then pouring all of
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Speaker 1: your time and effort into painting that room. You know,
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Speaker 1: you move all the furniture out, you tape off the trim,
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Speaker 1: you cut in around everything, you roll the paint on.
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Speaker 1: Then you put the room, you put it back together,
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Speaker 1: you know, get all the furniture back in place, and
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Speaker 1: then you take that step back. Right, we all do that,
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Speaker 1: and we soak it all in and we're hoping to
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Speaker 1: have this wow moment. But sometimes we do that and
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Speaker 1: this horror starts to set in. You know, we hate it,
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Speaker 1: or we think we hate it. You know, we got
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Speaker 1: all that time lost, all that money gone, all that
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Speaker 1: energy wasted. It's frustrating, it's expensive, and maybe most importantly,
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Speaker 1: it happens. You know, it happens way too much. So
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Speaker 1: let's talk about what to do if you find yourself
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Speaker 1: in situation. But before we deal with fixing it, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about avoiding the problem in the first place. That's
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Speaker 1: the best way to go anyway, right, So let's avoid
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Speaker 1: the problem. And I've got just a few ideas to
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Speaker 1: think about or things that will help you. For starters,
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Speaker 1: don't assume that a color that you loved in somebody
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Speaker 1: else's home, or even in a different room in your
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Speaker 1: own home, don't assume that that color's going to work
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Speaker 1: in the room that you're getting ready to paint. All right,
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Speaker 1: our homes are all different, and even room to room
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Speaker 1: in your own home, the lighting isn't the same. On
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Speaker 1: top of that, the woodwork is sometimes different, furniture is
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Speaker 1: usually different, the art in the walls is different, and
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Speaker 1: all of those differences can have a dramatic effect on
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Speaker 1: your perception of a color. For example, my daughter's room
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Speaker 1: is a wonderful pale yellow. It's a soft color that
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Speaker 1: looks absolutely great in her west facing room. I really
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Speaker 1: really like it in there, and as we were painting
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Speaker 1: it in there, I realized, or I thought I realized
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Speaker 1: that I found the perfect color for my formal living room.
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Speaker 1: When it was time to paint that living room, I
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Speaker 1: grabbed some of the leftover paint and tried it on
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Speaker 1: one single wall, and I was stunned to see the difference.
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Speaker 1: My east facing living room made that soft, buttery warm
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Speaker 1: yellow look almost like a highlighter, you know. It hit
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Speaker 1: a neon greenish kind of an undertone that I couldn't unsee.
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Speaker 1: Even though I work with color on a daily basis,
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Speaker 1: I was still surprised to find out how different that
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Speaker 1: color looked between the two different rooms. So my first
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Speaker 1: tip again, don't assume that since the color worked in
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Speaker 1: another room or somebody else's home, that it's going to
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Speaker 1: be perfect and wonderful in your space. That's the first tip.
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Speaker 1: Second tip is related, and I'm sure you've already clued
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Speaker 1: into it because your smart audience. Sample the color every
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Speaker 1: single time. You know, if you have paint that you
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Speaker 1: believe is going to be the perfect color, like I did,
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Speaker 1: roll some on before you order boatloads, you know, boku buko, boku,
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Speaker 1: large amounts of it. Don't order large amount of it
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Speaker 1: until you've sampled a little bit. You know. If you're
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Speaker 1: working with color chips or computer renditions of a color,
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Speaker 1: make sure you actually get your hands on some of
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Speaker 1: the paint. So narrow down your choices until you've got
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Speaker 1: one or two front runners. And then once you've got
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Speaker 1: it to that point, by one or two Benjamin More
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Speaker 1: color samples. They're right around six bucks something like that,
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Speaker 1: and they'll give you enough actual paint to roll the
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Speaker 1: color onto a foam board or even onto your wall.
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Speaker 1: Do that, and then check that color out in different
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Speaker 1: lighting situations. Check the color out for a while in
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Speaker 1: natural light versus artificial light, in the morning time versus evening,
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Speaker 1: and so on. Check it out near your furniture, your flooring,
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Speaker 1: your trim, all of that. And when you do this sampling,
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Speaker 1: make sure you're using at least two coats, especially over
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Speaker 1: another color, you know, just to make sure that what
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Speaker 1: you're seeing and what you're sampling and what you're assessing,
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Speaker 1: make sure that that's actually the true color. And finally,
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Speaker 1: remember that color is contextual. Now, what I mean by
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Speaker 1: that is that the other colors that surround your color
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Speaker 1: can influence its appearance. When you roll a new color
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Speaker 1: onto a wall that's already painted with a different color.
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Speaker 1: For example, we had that lighter yellow, that yellow from
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Speaker 1: my daughter's room rolled onto one wall in the home.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's the yellow that I didn't like, the
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Speaker 1: neon green yellow. So I chose a new color, a
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Speaker 1: darker yellow, and then I painted like a two by two,
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Speaker 1: you know, a two foot by two foot section on
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Speaker 1: my wall right over that first yellow. I looked at
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Speaker 1: it and I thought it was too dark. It was
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Speaker 1: just too much. It was crazy. But then I wondered
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Speaker 1: if that lighter yellow that it was painted on was
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Speaker 1: throwing off my perception. So visually I blocked out the
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Speaker 1: lighter yellow and then found a way, you know, to
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Speaker 1: view just the new color against the woodwork, and all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, that too dark, too bold feeling went away,
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Speaker 1: you know, right away went away. The other color, that
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Speaker 1: lighter yellow, was changing my perception of that new color.
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Speaker 1: So all that to say, before you decide that the
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Speaker 1: new color that you sampled is wrong, try to view
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Speaker 1: it apart from any other color that's surrounding it. And similarly,
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Speaker 1: you know, right along these lines, which is exactly what
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Speaker 1: similarly means. I didn't need to say both of those things. Similarly,
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Speaker 1: don't sample multiple colors next to each other. Not only
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Speaker 1: do other colors influence how color appears, but our eyes
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Speaker 1: also do some interesting things with color. We tend to
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Speaker 1: think that when we see a color, we're measuring that color,
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Speaker 1: but actually it's less about measuring and more about averaging.
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Speaker 1: So when we see two or more colors that are
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Speaker 1: very close to each other, we're not seeing color accurately
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Speaker 1: on either one of those. We're seeing an average of
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Speaker 1: the colors. So keep your color samples far enough apart
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Speaker 1: that that doesn't happen. Okay, so sample your colors. That's
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Speaker 1: my main point there. Next tip I've got is this,
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Speaker 1: trust your gut. When I painted that first yellow onto
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Speaker 1: the wall, the neon green, you know, highlight or yellow,
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Speaker 1: just to sample it. My first thought when I did
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Speaker 1: that was that it was too greenish, you know, something
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Speaker 1: was off. I was bummed about it because I thought
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Speaker 1: it was going to be the right color, and I
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Speaker 1: wasn't big on starting the searchover, and so I sat
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Speaker 1: with it for about a week or two, you know,
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Speaker 1: hoping that it would get better, and in some lights
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Speaker 1: at some times day I kind of liked it. And
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Speaker 1: I found myself really really trying to convince myself that
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Speaker 1: it was good. This is the one Dan, go for it,
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Speaker 1: jump in. You're gonna like it, right, I really tried
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Speaker 1: to make myself like it. I asked the kids what
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Speaker 1: they thought, and they liked it, And so I started
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Speaker 1: to tell myself that I was just being too fussy,
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Speaker 1: too finicky, that I was overthinking it. But there was
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Speaker 1: this nagging idea that it was just the wrong color.
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Speaker 1: You know, that feeling when you're in it, When you're
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Speaker 1: having that feeling, you know what I'm talking about. Do
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Speaker 1: not disregard that feeling and plow ahead with a full
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Speaker 1: paint job, no matter how frustrating it is to go
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Speaker 1: back to the drawing board, you know, and start over
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Speaker 1: trying to find a new color. That's frustrating, but it's
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Speaker 1: way better than going through the work of painting a
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Speaker 1: room and then hating the results and then still having
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Speaker 1: to go back to the drawing board, find a new color,
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Speaker 1: and all of that. So if you have misgivings about
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Speaker 1: a color, you know, a sample that you put on
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Speaker 1: the wall, make a switch, or at least take a
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Speaker 1: little longer to debate whether this is the right color.
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Speaker 1: Your gut isn't you wrong on these things? So listen
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Speaker 1: to it? All right, those are some things that you
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Speaker 1: can do to help you avoid picking the wrong color
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Speaker 1: in the first place. But what if you do that,
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Speaker 1: or maybe you skip those things, and who knows. But
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Speaker 1: let's say you painted a room and now you're standing
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Speaker 1: there looking at it and you're thinking, oh, no, I
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Speaker 1: don't think this is very good. If that's your situation,
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Speaker 1: what do you do? Or we're going to get to
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Speaker 1: that next Stay tuned and we're back. You're listening to
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Speaker 1: the Repcolite Home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and
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Speaker 1: we're working our way through an episode all about the
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Speaker 1: wrong color. You know, we've either been there, or we've
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Speaker 1: known somebody who has, or we can easily imagine, you know,
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Speaker 1: the scenario. In fact, I'm just emerging from that exact
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Speaker 1: scenario right now. It's all going down in that room
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Speaker 1: that I was just talking about that living room with
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Speaker 1: the yellows. In this instance, I sampled the color. I
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Speaker 1: found what I thought was the right yellow, and then
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Speaker 1: I painted the entire room with two coats of that color.
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Speaker 1: And when I stepped back, you know, when it was
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Speaker 1: all done, surveyed my handiwork. I looked at it and
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Speaker 1: I thought, what chaos have I wrought? What have I done? Now?
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Speaker 1: To be fair, I didn't hate the color, but I
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Speaker 1: sure wasn't like, boy, I love this. I was all
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Speaker 1: over the place. I was nervous, I was concerned. I
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Speaker 1: was frustrated. Let me tell you, if you haven't been there,
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Speaker 1: it's a punch in the gut. I've got two gallons
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Speaker 1: of paint that I spent money on, and I don't
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Speaker 1: like to spend money on anything. I've got tools that
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Speaker 1: I've used up more than all of that. I've got
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Speaker 1: time that my kid and I spent doing this. Rolling
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Speaker 1: the walls that was nothing but cutting in, you know,
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Speaker 1: doing all of that, you know, cutting in around the
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Speaker 1: baseboard and along the ceiling, around the windows. That took
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Speaker 1: a lot of time and a lot of care. And
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Speaker 1: to think about doing all of that again with another
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Speaker 1: color was disheartening to say the least. Now, last segment
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Speaker 1: we talked about some practical things that you can do
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Speaker 1: to give yourself the best chance possible to stay out
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Speaker 1: of the scenario. But as I'm living proof, there are
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Speaker 1: still no guarantees you can do everything right and still
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Speaker 1: find that that new color that you chose makes you
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Speaker 1: scratch your head in wonder. Now, in this segment and
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Speaker 1: the next one, we're going to focus on how you
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Speaker 1: can navigate this exact scenario that I just described. I've
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Speaker 1: got six questions that you can ask yourself before you
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Speaker 1: jump ship and run to the paint store to repcollite
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Speaker 1: to buy new paint. You know, before you do that,
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Speaker 1: ask yourself these six questions. And of course you've got
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Speaker 1: to answer the questions too just asking them. These are
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Speaker 1: not rhetorical. This is not something for you to just ask,
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Speaker 1: and it's something that you've got to answer, all right.
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Speaker 1: So the first question is this is this the wrong color?
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Speaker 1: Or am I seeing the previous color through the new color? Now,
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Speaker 1: this can be really misleading. Some colors hide better than
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Speaker 1: other colors, that is, they cover the existing color better.
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Speaker 1: The yellow that I was working with, for example, it
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Speaker 1: did not hide very well. It definitely needed two coats
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Speaker 1: for full coverage. When I got my first coat applied
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Speaker 1: over the original beige on the walls, that yellow looked really,
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Speaker 1: really funky. A second coat completely hid the beige, and
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Speaker 1: I was finally able to see the true color, you know,
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Speaker 1: for what it was. I know that applying a second
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Speaker 1: coat seems kind of nuts if you're thinking that you
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Speaker 1: hated that first color, But really you've got to look
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Speaker 1: at that closely, because you probably are not seeing, you know,
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Speaker 1: your new color yet. You're seeing just some kind of amalgamation.
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Speaker 1: It's a blending of the old color and the new color,
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Speaker 1: and it can be really funky. You've got to get
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Speaker 1: that second coat on there so that you're assessing the
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Speaker 1: true color that you chose. If you switch right now
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Speaker 1: and go get new paint, it could take you off
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Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. So make sure you're seeing a
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Speaker 1: good sample of the new color. That's the first question.
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Speaker 1: Second question is this is it the wrong color or
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Speaker 1: is the chaos of the room making it look that way?
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Speaker 1: And what I'm getting at here is this, there's no
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Speaker 1: way to truly see how a color looks in a
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Speaker 1: space if the space is completely torn up and filled
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Speaker 1: with all the trappings of the paint job. You know,
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Speaker 1: when I finished my second coat, I was looking at
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Speaker 1: the walls and taking it all in, But there was
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Speaker 1: no way to judge that color accurately until the drop
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Speaker 1: claws were picked up, the window treatments put back in place,
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Speaker 1: the furniture brought back in, and the art hung back up.
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Speaker 1: I had to make it a room again, really, before
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Speaker 1: I could see what that color was going to look like.
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Speaker 1: And the same is true for you, and I get it.
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Speaker 1: It's really tempting in certain instances to want to strike
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Speaker 1: while the iron's hot, so to speak. You know, the
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Speaker 1: room's torn apart, I'm in my painting clothes, i don't
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Speaker 1: like the color, and I'm in a panic. You guys
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Speaker 1: have to do you, But really, when you think about it,
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Speaker 1: jumping into panic induced action and rushing out and getting
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Speaker 1: new paint at that point, or adjusting your color or
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Speaker 1: whatever you end up doing just so you can keep
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Speaker 1: painting is not the best step. I'd encourage you to
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Speaker 1: put the room back together, give it some time, and
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Speaker 1: just let it cook now for one thing. Once it's
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Speaker 1: back together, you may find that you like the color
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Speaker 1: for another thing. And this is really important, so don't
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Speaker 1: miss this. Successful painting is just as much about mindset
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Speaker 1: as it is about skill and technique. If you're frustrated,
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Speaker 1: if you're stressed, if you're tired of it, sick of it,
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Speaker 1: all of those things, whatever, that is not the time
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Speaker 1: to start applying another code of paint. It's not the
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Speaker 1: time to rush out to the paint storm pick a
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Speaker 1: new color. You know, when you're in that mindset, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna cut corners, you're gonna make bad decisions, you're gonna
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Speaker 1: do slop your work. You just want to be finished,
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Speaker 1: and that's not the path to a great paint finish.
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Speaker 1: So my general advice would be this, get that second
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Speaker 1: code of paint on, and even if you're unsure, put
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Speaker 1: that room back together. Deal with that next code of
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Speaker 1: paint on another weekend, another evening, sometime when you're fresh
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Speaker 1: and ready to tackle it. All right. The third question
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Speaker 1: that I've got is this one. Is my color wrong?
17:41
Speaker 1: Or is it maybe the lighting that's the problem. Now
17:44
Speaker 1: we talk about it on the show all the time,
17:46
Speaker 1: but lighting can dramatically change the way a paint color looks.
17:49
Speaker 1: Cool led bulbs, for example, those with a bluish, you know,
17:52
Speaker 1: kind of a bluish tint to them. They can make
17:54
Speaker 1: warm beige colors look drab, a little bit gray, a
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Speaker 1: little bit dreary. On the flips side, warm incandescent style bulbs,
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Speaker 1: they can make cool blues look muddy or greens look
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Speaker 1: a little bit funky. So before you run out to
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Speaker 1: repaint and get new color and all of that, take
18:10
Speaker 1: a moment to consider your lighting. What kind of bulbs
18:13
Speaker 1: do you have in the room, Are the led CFL halogen, incandescent?
18:17
Speaker 1: And what's the temperature rating of them? You know, check
18:19
Speaker 1: that Calvin rating on the box. If you've got the box,
18:23
Speaker 1: Try swapping out a few bulbs and just see how
18:25
Speaker 1: that impacts the space and the color. The bottom line
18:28
Speaker 1: is this, paint and light are kind of like partners
18:31
Speaker 1: in all of this. Don't judge one without at least
18:34
Speaker 1: considering the other. Sometimes, I mean, this is wonderful when
18:37
Speaker 1: it happens. Sometimes a ten dollars change in light bulbs
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Speaker 1: is all it takes to turn a bad color into
18:43
Speaker 1: something that you really do love. So keep that in mind.
18:45
Speaker 1: Ask that question and of course answer it. Okay, that's
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Speaker 1: three of my six questions. We're going to take a
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Speaker 1: break and we're gonna get to the other three questions
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Speaker 1: on the other side. Stick around and we're back. You're
19:02
Speaker 1: listening to the Repco Light Home improvement shows sponsored by
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Speaker 1: Benjamin Moore, and we're working our way through six questions.
19:08
Speaker 1: You should ask yourself if you finished painting a room
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Speaker 1: and you're standing there wondering if you picked the wrong color.
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Speaker 1: We made it through the first three questions. Let's keep going.
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Speaker 1: Question four is this is it the wrong color? Or
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Speaker 1: am I just struggling with change? This one's big and
19:24
Speaker 1: it gets overlooked all the time. You know, if you've
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Speaker 1: made a big shift in color, or if you're replacing
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Speaker 1: a color that's been on the walls for years and
19:32
Speaker 1: years and years, your brain, your poor little brain is
19:36
Speaker 1: going to need time to adjust, right, And the older
19:39
Speaker 1: you are, the longer your brain is going to need
19:42
Speaker 1: to adjust. Don't underestimate the reality of the psychology of change. Here,
19:49
Speaker 1: just briefly, is why we struggle, you know, pop psych
19:52
Speaker 1: Saturday morning stuff. Here's why we struggle with change. We're wired,
19:56
Speaker 1: first off, to find comfort in familiarly. I would sure
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Speaker 1: love to be able to just say the word the
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Speaker 1: way I see it, or the way I see it
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Speaker 1: in my mind. Familiarity, familiarity. We find comfort in things
20:12
Speaker 1: that are familiar to us. I'm so sorry. I so
20:15
Speaker 1: hoped to make that intelligent and smooth, and I completely
20:20
Speaker 1: flubbed it up. We're wired to find comfort in things
20:23
Speaker 1: that are familiar to us. Change, especially sudden or you know,
20:27
Speaker 1: uncertain things, they can feel like a threat to that stability.
20:32
Speaker 1: So that's one thing that's playing out, even with a
20:34
Speaker 1: color change. Another thing, and I think this one is
20:37
Speaker 1: really interesting, we feel loss more deeply than we feel gain. Right,
20:42
Speaker 1: we feel loss more deeply than we feel gain. So
20:45
Speaker 1: changing something like the color of the room, let's just
20:47
Speaker 1: stick with that, that can feel like the loss of
20:50
Speaker 1: the atmosphere that the room previously had more than it
20:53
Speaker 1: feels like the gaining of a new atmosphere. Also, the color,
20:57
Speaker 1: if it's not exactly producing the effect that we inticiy pated,
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Speaker 1: we can feel the loss of our expectations or of
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Speaker 1: our vision more than we feel the opportunity to find
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Speaker 1: a new vision. More on that in a minute. We're
21:07
Speaker 1: going to get to that in its own question down
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Speaker 1: the road, and it's a good one. So don't bail
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Speaker 1: on me early. All right. Another reason we really struggle
21:15
Speaker 1: with change is that we fear regret. Right. You know,
21:18
Speaker 1: we're asking ourselves constantly, what if I made the wrong decision,
21:21
Speaker 1: What if I hate this in a month? What if
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Speaker 1: this color drives me crazy down the road. Well, that
21:26
Speaker 1: fear can make us doubt even a great color choice.
21:29
Speaker 1: You know, it's playing in our mind. It's part of
21:31
Speaker 1: being human. Last thing, even small changes can shake our
21:34
Speaker 1: sense of identity or control. You know, the way a
21:37
Speaker 1: room looks and feels is kind of a big part
21:40
Speaker 1: of how we experience our home, probably one of the
21:43
Speaker 1: biggest parts of how we experience our home, and if
21:45
Speaker 1: that changes too quickly or too drastically, it can feel
21:50
Speaker 1: or lead us to feel, you know, a little bit unsettled.
21:53
Speaker 1: All right, So, as we mentioned earlier, put the room
21:55
Speaker 1: back together. That's your way to work through this whole
21:58
Speaker 1: fear of change thing. Put the room back together, other
22:00
Speaker 1: and just let it cook. I've already said that phrase
22:03
Speaker 1: that the kids say it all the time to me,
22:05
Speaker 1: let it cook, Dad. I never let things cook. You
22:09
Speaker 1: gotta let things cook. And I think that just means
22:12
Speaker 1: let it sit for a while, let it do its
22:13
Speaker 1: thing right, let the room sit, get it back together,
22:16
Speaker 1: and let it sit. It normally takes us a little
22:19
Speaker 1: bit of time to overcome all these natural human reactions
22:21
Speaker 1: to change. If you're really hoping, you know, to step
22:24
Speaker 1: outside your comfort zone and push the boundaries with color,
22:27
Speaker 1: and a lot of us want to do that. We
22:28
Speaker 1: want to break out of the molds that we've been in.
22:31
Speaker 1: We want to stretch a little bit. If that's you.
22:33
Speaker 1: If you're really wanting to do that, you're gonna need
22:35
Speaker 1: to be prepared for how your brain wants to handle change.
22:39
Speaker 1: So give that new color some time, give yourself some time.
22:42
Speaker 1: Take yourself off of this self imposed you know, timetable.
22:46
Speaker 1: We always create these timetables that this room has to
22:49
Speaker 1: be done, you know, by this day, or it's going
22:51
Speaker 1: to be done by that day, and that stresses us out. Now,
22:54
Speaker 1: sometimes we really do have timetables people are coming to
22:57
Speaker 1: visit or whatever, but a lot of the times they're
23:00
Speaker 1: kind of just things we've put on ourselves for no
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Speaker 1: real reason other than I think we like to have
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Speaker 1: deadlines and timetables. So take yourself off of that timetable.
23:09
Speaker 1: If you can ease up, take your foot off the
23:12
Speaker 1: gas and just relax a little bit. You might find
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Speaker 1: that you love this change after you've given your brain
23:17
Speaker 1: a little bit of time to adjust. All right, that's
23:20
Speaker 1: question number four. Question number five is this one? Is
23:23
Speaker 1: it the wrong coat? Is it the wrong color? Or
23:28
Speaker 1: is the rest of the room wrong? Is it the
23:30
Speaker 1: wrong color or is the rest of the room wrong?
23:33
Speaker 1: Is how the adults in the room would say it.
23:35
Speaker 1: The prepubescent teens would have said it the first way
23:38
Speaker 1: that I tried to say it. Is it the wrong color?
23:41
Speaker 1: Or is the rest of the room wrong. This doesn't
23:44
Speaker 1: apply in every case, and it's a little bit weird,
23:46
Speaker 1: but here's what I'm getting at. If you've got a
23:47
Speaker 1: beautiful space with furniture and art that you love, things
23:50
Speaker 1: that you're keeping, and the wall color isn't working, then yeah,
23:54
Speaker 1: you probably have the wrong color. You're going to need
23:56
Speaker 1: to change that color. That's obvious. But often we paint
23:59
Speaker 1: a room knowing full well that we're not fans of
24:01
Speaker 1: the furniture or the decor in that room. That's where
24:04
Speaker 1: I'm at right now. I've got that living room that
24:07
Speaker 1: I've been talking about, that yellow living room, and when
24:09
Speaker 1: I put the room back together, you know, it looked better,
24:12
Speaker 1: but my gut reaction was, you know, I'm still not
24:15
Speaker 1: sure that this color is working, you know, so I'm
24:18
Speaker 1: letting it sit, I'm letting it cook and all of
24:20
Speaker 1: those things. But as I sit with it, the more
24:23
Speaker 1: I'm realizing that I don't think it's the color that's
24:25
Speaker 1: the problem. It's the couch, it's the chair. You know,
24:29
Speaker 1: these things were good ish in their day, but their
24:32
Speaker 1: day is long past. I mean, long long past the chair.
24:37
Speaker 1: Let's talk about my chair. My word. I've talked about
24:40
Speaker 1: this chair before, for the true believers who listen every
24:43
Speaker 1: week to every word that drips from my mouth. I've
24:46
Speaker 1: talked about this chair before, and I'm kind of a
24:49
Speaker 1: little bit embarrassed to bring it up, but not really,
24:52
Speaker 1: because these things crack me up. My cheapness, cracks me up.
24:55
Speaker 1: My decisions crack me up. My chair, my favorite chair
24:59
Speaker 1: in the whole wide world is plether. Right. Plether It
25:03
Speaker 1: sounds fancy. It just means fake leather, plastic leather, fake leather.
25:08
Speaker 1: It looked like leather a long time ago, but the
25:12
Speaker 1: leather like stuff on it, it's coming off in huge
25:16
Speaker 1: flakes all the time, and everywhere. I first noticed it
25:20
Speaker 1: when I had black stuff, you know, falling out of
25:24
Speaker 1: my hair in the shower, and the minute I saw that,
25:27
Speaker 1: being an imminently, imminently and innately, being an incredibly reasonable
25:35
Speaker 1: person like I am, I assumed that these black things
25:38
Speaker 1: were lice babies. That's all I could think, lice babies.
25:42
Speaker 1: I found out later they're not called lice babies, but
25:45
Speaker 1: a little baby lice lice. I didn't know what lice
25:48
Speaker 1: even looked like. I just remember standing in the shower
25:51
Speaker 1: thinking that I'm gonna have to be dipped in some
25:54
Speaker 1: sort of pesticide vat to kill the lice babies growing
25:58
Speaker 1: rampant on my head. You know, I've never had lice,
26:00
Speaker 1: the kids never had lice. The experience was very scary,
26:05
Speaker 1: very disconcerting. It was a dark mystery that I had
26:08
Speaker 1: to try to figure out. Anyway, you can guess how
26:11
Speaker 1: relieved I was to discover that it wasn't lice at all.
26:14
Speaker 1: It was just my favorite chair falling to pieces, you know,
26:18
Speaker 1: as I would sit in it. So anyway, back to
26:20
Speaker 1: my room, when I pushed that radi old chair back
26:23
Speaker 1: in place, it helped make that room, you know, kind
26:25
Speaker 1: of feel like a room again. There was a chair
26:27
Speaker 1: in the spot where there's supposed to be a chair,
26:29
Speaker 1: but that chair really didn't vibe, you know, with the
26:33
Speaker 1: color on the wall. Fortunately, before I could repaint everything,
26:36
Speaker 1: one of the kids said, you know, it's the furniture
26:38
Speaker 1: that blows in here, it's not the wall color. And
26:41
Speaker 1: when I started thinking about it from that point of view,
26:43
Speaker 1: I realized he was right. All of these pieces that
26:46
Speaker 1: I've got, they're already on my replace eventually list anyway,
26:51
Speaker 1: and I realized if they were gone and newer pieces
26:54
Speaker 1: were in their place, well, the wall color most likely
26:57
Speaker 1: would be fine, if not great. Now, I understand replacing
27:01
Speaker 1: your furniture and accessories. If that's not an option for
27:04
Speaker 1: you right now, then yeah, like I said earlier, you
27:06
Speaker 1: might need to adjust that wall color. All I'm saying
27:09
Speaker 1: with this question is, don't toss out your vision just
27:12
Speaker 1: because it's clashing with pieces that you may be already
27:15
Speaker 1: planned to change out. Maybe this is just the cue
27:17
Speaker 1: that you need to move those changes up the priority list.
27:21
Speaker 1: All right, last question I've got for you, question six,
27:24
Speaker 1: is this is it the wrong color or was your
27:26
Speaker 1: original vision wrong? This one is my favorite of all
27:30
Speaker 1: of the questions, and I love it because it encourages
27:32
Speaker 1: us to shift, you know, our perspectives, to let go
27:36
Speaker 1: of expectations, and maybe, you know, hopefully maybe discover something
27:41
Speaker 1: even better than what we had planned now. Earlier, when
27:44
Speaker 1: I was talking about change and why we resist it,
27:47
Speaker 1: I mentioned how we sometimes can see a new color,
27:50
Speaker 1: for example, and feel the loss of a vision or
27:53
Speaker 1: an expectation. You know, we see this new color, and
27:55
Speaker 1: even when the room is put back together, we realize
27:58
Speaker 1: it's just not the vision that we'd originally intended, and
28:01
Speaker 1: we feel a sense of loss and frustration over that.
28:04
Speaker 1: But what if the color itself isn't wrong? What if
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Speaker 1: your original vision just wasn't the best one. What if
28:09
Speaker 1: the new color is giving you an opportunity to go
28:12
Speaker 1: in a better direction. I know it's a little bit
28:14
Speaker 1: weird to think about, but personally, some of my favorite
28:17
Speaker 1: creative achievements have come about from accidents or unexpected changes,
28:22
Speaker 1: you know, and that's not really terribly uncommon. Artists, for example,
28:26
Speaker 1: they've stumbled into new styles and new ways to express
28:28
Speaker 1: themselves entirely on accident. Authors they've written entire novels based
28:33
Speaker 1: on random snippets of conversation that they overheard by accident
28:37
Speaker 1: in a diner or a coffee shop. How about this example,
28:40
Speaker 1: you know, this should make the case. This is from
28:43
Speaker 1: the world of film. In Jaws, you know the shark movie.
28:46
Speaker 1: Du doudn't don't you know? You know the movie? You
28:50
Speaker 1: know the movie. In that movie, the mechanical shark kept
28:54
Speaker 1: breaking down during filming, so Steven Spielberg, the director, had
28:57
Speaker 1: to pivot, had to come up with another plan. So
29:00
Speaker 1: instead of showing the shark as he intended, he used music,
29:03
Speaker 1: point of view shots, and subtle visual cues to build suspense,
29:07
Speaker 1: and as a result, he ends up creating one of
29:09
Speaker 1: the most iconic thrillers ever made. And it happened because
29:13
Speaker 1: he had a problem, not in spite of one. So
29:16
Speaker 1: when your newly painted room feels off, it might not
29:19
Speaker 1: be a mistake. It might be an invitation to rethink
29:22
Speaker 1: your vision. And I know that still sounds a little wacky,
29:26
Speaker 1: the wacky. Nobody uses that word anymore. It sounds I
29:32
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't have anything better wonky wacky. That's
29:37
Speaker 1: the limits of my vocabulary. I know it sounds strange,
29:41
Speaker 1: let's just say that, but it really can be true.
29:43
Speaker 1: For example, that yellow that I used in my living room.
29:46
Speaker 1: Let's go back to that living room scenario. That yellow
29:50
Speaker 1: that I ended up using, that's on the walls right now.
29:53
Speaker 1: It wasn't what I expected. I was going to have.
29:55
Speaker 1: My vision for that room was a soft, buttery yellow
29:58
Speaker 1: that was going to make the room feel like a
29:59
Speaker 1: sn spring morning, you know, filled with flowers and peaceful vibes,
30:04
Speaker 1: like if the easter bunny, you know, hopped through the
30:07
Speaker 1: living room on a given morning. It would just feel normal.
30:10
Speaker 1: You know. That's what I was shooting for. That was
30:11
Speaker 1: my original plan. But I'd overcorrected from the very first yellow.
30:15
Speaker 1: I sampled and I went from something that was too
30:18
Speaker 1: light to something that was much too dark, you know,
30:20
Speaker 1: too bold. And when I stood there, when I was
30:23
Speaker 1: all done looking at the completed room, I realized that
30:26
Speaker 1: my initial vision was completely lost, and I was frustrated.
30:30
Speaker 1: But then I started thinking differently. I started thinking about
30:33
Speaker 1: what I could do with the color that I had now.
30:36
Speaker 1: That living room, that front living room, that formal living room,
30:38
Speaker 1: whatever whatever you want to call it. This yellow living
30:41
Speaker 1: room has always been kind of a neutral space. You know,
30:44
Speaker 1: it's nice enough, but it's forgettable. We've got another room
30:48
Speaker 1: in the house, a family room in the back part
30:50
Speaker 1: that's a statement room. You know. We've got a painted
30:53
Speaker 1: brick fireplace that's really cool, an eclectic mantle full of
30:57
Speaker 1: all kinds of little odds and ends, bookshelves filled with
31:00
Speaker 1: old hardcovers and unusual trinkets that we've collected over time.
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Speaker 1: It's a room that feels like us. It's a ton
31:06
Speaker 1: of fun. I love that space. The front living room
31:09
Speaker 1: never had that, you know, but with the yellow on
31:12
Speaker 1: the walls, now, suddenly I could see a little bit
31:14
Speaker 1: of potential here now. Years ago, this is my favorite
31:17
Speaker 1: part of this whole segment. I hope this part, this
31:20
Speaker 1: point comes through. Years ago, I came across this wonderfully
31:23
Speaker 1: ridiculous emerald green mid century couch in a design magazine. Now,
31:29
Speaker 1: the idea in that article was to ground a room
31:32
Speaker 1: in neutral, classic elements and then flip it with one
31:35
Speaker 1: bold statement piece, you know. In that instance, they were
31:38
Speaker 1: highlighting this ridiculous emerald green couch, and I loved it.
31:42
Speaker 1: I loved that couch. It was fun, it was unique,
31:44
Speaker 1: and it was one of those things that I saw
31:46
Speaker 1: in a magazine that I thought, man, that's cool, and
31:50
Speaker 1: it's too bad that it would never ever work in
31:52
Speaker 1: my house, you know, my house doesn't really allow for
31:55
Speaker 1: anything fun like that. But then all of a sudden,
31:58
Speaker 1: I've got this yellow on the walls on accident. Didn't
32:01
Speaker 1: mean to do this, and as I'm looking at it,
32:03
Speaker 1: I'm realizing that, for the first time in my whole
32:06
Speaker 1: time of owning this house, I actually could bring a funky,
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Speaker 1: emerald green couch into that space and it would work.
32:13
Speaker 1: I could do it in my house. I never noticed
32:16
Speaker 1: it because I didn't have anything bold or crazy going on.
32:18
Speaker 1: That yellow that I accidentally ended up putting on my
32:21
Speaker 1: walls opened up an entirely new vision for me. So
32:24
Speaker 1: now I've snagged some grounding furniture pieces, you know, I've
32:27
Speaker 1: got some used leather chairs that I snagged so I
32:30
Speaker 1: can replace my you know, falling apart pleather chairs, and
32:33
Speaker 1: those new chairs used chairs. They look wonderful, you know,
32:37
Speaker 1: great with the yellow walls. Now I'm on a hunt
32:40
Speaker 1: for that couch or something like it, something to give
32:43
Speaker 1: the room completely a new attitude. Suddenly this room has
32:47
Speaker 1: the potential to be a standout space in the home.
32:49
Speaker 1: And I'm way, way, way, way more excited about this
32:52
Speaker 1: new direction than I ever was about my easter bunny,
32:56
Speaker 1: sunny spring morning original plan. So maybe what I'm getting
32:59
Speaker 1: at is that you're looking at something right now that's
33:01
Speaker 1: the wrong color. Maybe it's not so much the wrong color.
33:04
Speaker 1: Maybe it's an unexpected opportunity to reshape your vision into
33:07
Speaker 1: something way better. All right, those are some questions to ask,
33:11
Speaker 1: and maybe you'll find out that you don't have the
33:13
Speaker 1: wrong color. You just need to adjust your thinking a
33:15
Speaker 1: little bit. But sometimes you're going to ask those questions
33:19
Speaker 1: and the answer is going to be won't won't want
33:21
Speaker 1: that you have the wrong color. When that's the case,
33:23
Speaker 1: what do you do? What are your options? Where do
33:26
Speaker 1: you go from there? We're going to get to all
33:28
Speaker 1: of that in just a minute. Stick around and we're back.
33:36
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Repco Lite Home Improvement Show sponsored
33:39
Speaker 1: by Benjamin Moore, and today's spend all about talking about color,
33:44
Speaker 1: specifically talking about what to do if the color you
33:46
Speaker 1: painted is possibly the wrong color. You know you made
33:50
Speaker 1: a mistake. Now, if you've asked yourself the questions that
33:53
Speaker 1: I posed in the last two segments, all six questions,
33:56
Speaker 1: and you're still convinced that the color's wrong, let's talk
33:59
Speaker 1: about that. What do you do at that point? What
34:02
Speaker 1: are your options? You know, what's the path forward? Well,
34:05
Speaker 1: first thing I would tell you is don't rush a decision.
34:09
Speaker 1: You know something that I mentioned earlier in the show,
34:13
Speaker 1: I think I want to bring back up. Painting is
34:15
Speaker 1: just as much about a mindset as it is about technique.
34:18
Speaker 1: You know, if you've decided that the color that you
34:19
Speaker 1: put on the walls isn't working, you're probably going to
34:22
Speaker 1: be tempted to run back to the store, grab a
34:25
Speaker 1: different shade, a different tone, and get it all fixed.
34:28
Speaker 1: Right now, get that new paint on so you can
34:30
Speaker 1: go to bad feeling like you've got that room, you
34:32
Speaker 1: know exactly where you want it. But usually that's not
34:36
Speaker 1: the best move. The best thing you could do is
34:38
Speaker 1: probably take a breath, take a break. You know you
34:41
Speaker 1: already made one mistake. That's fine, it happens, but don't
34:44
Speaker 1: compound it by rushing into another one. So slow down,
34:47
Speaker 1: let yourself rest. You're going to choose better colors. You're
34:50
Speaker 1: going to paint better when you're fresh and you're thinking clearly.
34:53
Speaker 1: So first thing I'd say is just don't rush it.
34:56
Speaker 1: Slow down for a second. Now. The second thing is
34:58
Speaker 1: that sometimes we can adjust the color. You know, if
35:01
Speaker 1: you've got leftover paint, bring it in. Most of the
35:04
Speaker 1: time there's a good chance that we can tweak the color.
35:06
Speaker 1: You know, we can make it a little bit warmer,
35:08
Speaker 1: a little bit cooler, a little bit lighter, a little
35:10
Speaker 1: bit deeper. But with that set, here's what you need
35:13
Speaker 1: to know. If you've got a full gallon, we can
35:15
Speaker 1: usually or a full court, a full container, we can
35:18
Speaker 1: usually adjust the color and still maintain a formula that
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Speaker 1: we can repeat, you know, down the road for later gallons.
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Speaker 1: That's ideal. If the can that you've got is partially full,
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Speaker 1: we can still tweak that color. But if you love
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Speaker 1: the result and you want more, we're going to need
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Speaker 1: a wet sample in order to rematch it. We can't
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Speaker 1: create a repeatable formula from a partial can alone. So
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Speaker 1: keep those two things in mind. And then here's something
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Speaker 1: that a lot of people don't realize. The base paint
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Speaker 1: that we use to make your color that is going
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Speaker 1: to affect how much we can adjust it. Light colors,
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Speaker 1: for example, are tinted in bases that contain a lot
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Speaker 1: of titanium dioxide. That's the white pigment that gives them
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Speaker 1: brightness and hiding power. Dark colors, they're mixed into bases
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Speaker 1: that have very little or no white pigment at all,
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Speaker 1: none of that titanium dioxide or very little of it,
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Speaker 1: and that allows us to push those colors deep and
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Speaker 1: make them rich and saturated and all of that. Because
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Speaker 1: of that, it's tough to take a light color and
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Speaker 1: make it much lighter. You know, it's kind of already
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Speaker 1: at its limit, and just adding white colorant isn't going
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Speaker 1: to really do a whole lot. It's hard to darken
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Speaker 1: it dramatically as well, because it's got all that white
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Speaker 1: titanium dioxide already in it and it's fighting against the
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Speaker 1: colorant that we throw in. Dark colors, on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: they can be lightened a bit, but they do tend
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Speaker 1: to shift in tone. You know, think about lightning a
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Speaker 1: deep red and you're probably gonna end up making it
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Speaker 1: pushing it towards the pinks. So, bottom line, small tweaks
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Speaker 1: in color are very very doable. Big shifts they're a
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Speaker 1: lot trickier. If you do have paint left over, though,
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Speaker 1: and you're not happy with the color, bring it in.
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Speaker 1: We'll do what we can and we'll be honest about
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Speaker 1: what your options are. Third thing to keep in mind
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Speaker 1: is this, maybe the color doesn't work in the room
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Speaker 1: that you're working in, but maybe it could work somewhere else.
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Speaker 1: So think about that, maybe a bathroom, basement, walls, a closet,
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Speaker 1: a garage, something like that. Don't count the paint as
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Speaker 1: a complete loss until you've really thought about all the
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Speaker 1: spaces that you've got, and you know, maybe you could
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Speaker 1: find a place for it there. Now, I know, picking
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Speaker 1: the wrong color really really stinks. I've been there. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's really disheartening, really frustrating. But as we wrap this up,
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Speaker 1: let me leave you with a couple final thoughts. First off,
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Speaker 1: if you're not changing the color dramatically, you know the
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Speaker 1: color you picked, the new color that you need in
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Speaker 1: that space isn't that different. If that's the case, repainting
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Speaker 1: usually isn't going to be as bad. The second time
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Speaker 1: you've done the hard prep. It's going to go a
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Speaker 1: lot quicker than you think it's going to. So rest
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Speaker 1: in that confidence a little bit. And then the last
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Speaker 1: thing I'd say is this too is going to pass.
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Speaker 1: You know, right now it feels huge, this mistake, you know,
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Speaker 1: wasted time, wasted money, disappointment, all of that. But really,
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Speaker 1: in a few weeks or months, the moment's going to fade.
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Speaker 1: You know, maybe you'll even be laughing about it someday.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you won't. But at the bitterness, the the bite
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Speaker 1: of it all is going to fade. You're gonna forget
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Speaker 1: how frustrated you were. You're gonna move on. You know,
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Speaker 1: we've all got that one project or more that we
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Speaker 1: had to do twice. This one just happens to be yours,
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Speaker 1: you know, so go a little easy on yourself. It will,
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Speaker 1: you know, the pain will go away as time goes by.
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Speaker 1: Time heals all wounds, even poor color choices. All right
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Speaker 1: at Repcolite. Remember we've got color experts in every single store.
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Speaker 1: So if you are struggling with a choice, bring us
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Speaker 1: your fabrics, your cushions, your artwork, whatever you're working with.
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Speaker 1: Bring photos. We've got an eye for color, and we've
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Speaker 1: got the experience to help you narrow everything down. All right,
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Speaker 1: that's all the time we got. That's gonna do it.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna wrap this one up. If you want to
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Speaker 1: catch it again, you can find it online at repco
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Speaker 1: Light dot com. Whatever you do today makes your paints
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Speaker 1: a part of it. And remember your next project is
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Speaker 1: way easier than you think. Stop by any Repcolite location
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Speaker 1: and let us help. Have a great weekend everybody, and
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Speaker 1: I'll see you next week. I'm Dan Hanson. Thanks for listening.
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