Jeremy has spent one day painting the ceiling, and last weekend we tested the blue paint for the walls. I cut up a piece of board that we had sitting around to 50cm X 50cm. I had some instructions I was following from an old Family Circle magazine that suggest 60cm square but I think 50cm is big enough. Looking at an A4 piece of paper in a room is definitely not big enough to tell what the final paint colour will look like. And I wasn't going to paint test on the walls again, not after what happened in the entryway!
I used the environmentally friendly paint that I bought from Bio Paints (highly recommended), and hand mixed (with a stirrer) the pigment into the paint at 1%. It took a long time to mix in, but eventually resulted in the expected pale blue shade. At the moment we are unsure as to whether the shade is too light. I want the room to be light and airy but I don't want the paint to look grey, which blue tends to do if it is verging on white. The aim is to have the painting finished by the end of June, so I might do one more shade test this weekend, and then we will paint the walls on the following weekend.
I haven't yet done up a proper sample board for this room, but I have spent some time working out the colour scheme (triadic) and have been matching up a few different fabrics against the paint sample to compare the effect. Unfortunately, due to the handmade nature of this paint, I have discovered that the blue pigment is more blueberry than I expected, and was not quite the fresh blue I was looking for. But if we keep the shade light there will be no problem. It will still be a great background for the "Heritage Teak" stained cot that we have purchased. It would have looked better in white (especially with teak stained floorboards) but I made my choice taking into account durability as well.
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