colours for critters

what do you think? our original plan was the big patch on the left. you cant really see in the picture, but there ARE 2 shades of 'white' there... one we already had for our room, and one we bought to go with the blue. it looked PERFECT in the store, but now its on the wall it is FAR TOO PINK. so were going to go with our white, i think. and white ceilings, obviously.

anyway.... so we were thinking that, then hubby mentioned that even though that had been his idea to begin with, now hes thinking maybe he'd prefer to have a unifying theme throughout the house of having every room have the same white for the ceiling, and the walls above the picture rail. (this was what i originally wanted anyway, when we started thinking about painting the house, and kinda what we were thinking when we went to get paint - light walls, dark trim, white(ish) ceiling - but he saw the light/white/dark in a book next to the paints, and it really does look good.)

but we're undecided as to whether we like light walls with darker trim, or dark walls with lighter trim.

we both really like the darker blue, and whatever we choose, we want that blue. we will find other colours that go with THAT BLUE. but the lighter one... is a bit dark. in my opinion. hubby thinks its too light for some looks, too dark for others. if we go with option one, light blue/white/dark blue, it definitely needs to be lighter. for option 2, white/dark/light, hubby thinks it should be darker, i think it should be lighter. for option 3, white/light/dark, we both think it should be lighter.

regardless of our current opinions, i think we should buy sample pots of both a lighter AND a darker shade, and try them BOTH out for both options. when we were doing our room, our initial choice was not quite right, it looked a bit too blue for the room, and we decided maybe we should have a yellower shade of green. hubby went to get a sample, and while he was there he bought a completely different darker green as well, just to see how it would look. when we started painting, the yellower shade looked hideous, and the darker one he picked on a random whim was PERFECT. and full room size, it still looks gorgeous. i love it. but it just goes to show, what you logically think should work, isnt always right.