Oops!

We just had a beautiful ceiling fan installed in our family room to help the air circulate, especially in the summer since we don't have air conditioning. We also had a couple of can lights installed to help light some areas that were lacking. It was a big complicated job, so we hired an electrician to help us with it. It got done, but not until he had to cut at least 8 holes in our walls and ceiling to get the electricity to where we needed it. When the job was done he helped us by putting the dry wall back and coating it with mud to help fill in the cracks. We were left to paint. 

Since we had to get out the paint, we decided to go into every other room in the house and patch any other little nicks in the walls that we saw. We have flat paint and it nicks pretty easily, so we had patches all over the place, the majority of them being in hallways or around corners or other places that get a lot of wear from kids running up and down. We covered all of the patch work with texture to match the other parts of the walls and we let it all dry. The night that I went to paint I was very excited to cover all of these white spots on our tan walls. I worked for over an hour and finally got everything finished.

In the morning we woke up and went to admire my handy work and realized that the paint was the wrong color! I kid you not! Just a few photos to show the evidence:

I wanted to cry. Could it be that the paint that the builder left us had changed color from sitting in our garage for 2 years? Or could it be that I just didn't mix it well enough. I was just puzzled because it wasn't even the same color tone.

Well, a friend pointed out later in the day that it looked like our exterior house color, and she was right! I took a wet brush outside and compared it to the house color in natural daylight and it was a perfect match. 

Now this story has a happy ending, because I was able to go down to the paint store that our builder used and they were able to look up in their computer the exact color of paint that they had originally used on the house. We brought a gallon home with us and I got to paint everything all over again the next night. Thankfully it blends in quite well. Now if I would have had to re-paint the entire house because of this little mishap, then I definitely would have cried again. 

Crisis averted!!

And we love our new ceiling fan and our new lights!