For Where Art Thou Color...

I have discovered the 'Martha Living' paint brochure at Home Depot which takes all of the guessing out of compatible and harmonic color matching in deciding the color palette of house's interior and exterior color scheme for you.  This is a serious time saver and incredibly helpful to to this already overwhelmed Fugly House short sale purchaser whom owns two little hyperactive boys and one infant.  Trying to wrench a 20 foot long shopping cart representing a large orange double seater Nascar with two unwieldy screaming boys in a store is a full blown nightmare.  Yes I am that parent- the one that succumbs to the begging of 'mommy pleeaase can we ride in the car?' And I end up taking out the end-cap displays because the cart's turning radius does not work.  Oh, and our chosen cart never has working restraining straps so the orange vested elf helpers are always mentioning that my hairless monkeys should sit down so as not to crack their skulls on the sealed concrete floor, and, 'oh- I didn't know there was a circus in town?'.

Back to Martha....thank you Ms. M for making color choices easier for me, thus not traumatizing the local HD shoppers and employees with our family's prolonged presence.  I am also grateful I did not have to dig up my old color wheel and try and remember what I had learned in college.  Martha's handy dandy paint palette brochure has a color key where all of the paint chips have their individual names as well as a symbol for their represented 'hue' family for easy color coordination or contrast.  And for the Ms. M obsessed you can follow your chosen colors' symbol and purchase coordinating carpets and drapes.  There are six symbols/ color families to choose from.  My only nit pick is that it would have been nice to have a 'map legend' for the brochure explaining the six color groupings, warms vs. grays, etc...

Currently I am leaning towards the astrix group with colors such as Potters Clay, Cappuccino, Wild Turkey, Bedford Gray, Caraway Seed, and Whetstone Gray.  With maybe a couple of accent furniture pieces in Cornflower Blue.