A Colorful Day

I was in The Home Depot, the other day and wound up in the paint aisle. I was toying with the idea of freshening up the paint in one of my bedrooms. I was thinking of blue walls and a white ceiling. I walked over to the paint chip display and realized that this was going to be a bit more complicated than I originally thought. I pulled out a few of the white swatch cards. There was"Navajo white, China white, brilliant white, bright white, summer white and cool white", just to name a few. I moved over to the blue swatches and found "crystal blue, sea blue, Cape Cod blue, sky blue", etc, etc. It was the same for all of the seven colors of the rainbow. There were 76 shades of white and 83 shades of blue. That was in only one brand of paint. The store had three different brands. After stepping a few paces away from the colors, I saw the texture choices, There was "stone, stucco, sand and marbleized". Wait, now I come to the finishes. Flat, semi-gloss, gloss and egg shell. Who needed so many choices? I wanted blue and white. By the time I left the store, my head hurt and I was empty handed. Maybe the room didn't really need a fresh coat of paint, after all.