Every Single Paint Color in My House

Just in case you wanted to know!

Mar 07, 2025

Hi friends! Happy mud season… how’s your cabin fever? Mine’s pretty bad right now. I’ve been obsessively rearranging furniture and buying seed packets and searching for cheap last minute flights to somewhere warm and dry.

If you buy a new sofa, you’re going to want to rearrange the whole living room. If you rearrange the whole living room, you’re going to want to touch up the paint on the walls. If you touch up the paint on the walls, you’re going to dig through all the cans of paint in your basement. If you dig through all the cans of paint in your basement, you’re going to decide it’s time to write down the name of every paint color in your house. If you write down the name of every paint color in your house, you’re going to want to share it with your newsletter subscribers.

And so here we are! In case you’re interested, I’m sharing every single paint color used in my house, below. Personally, I love thinking about and choosing paint colors. I’d love to find a way to turn this into a job. Seriously though, if you know anyone who wants to hire me to choose paint colors for their house please let me know! I’m usually pretty decisive when it comes to choosing paint colors—I get a vision for a color mood for a room and then go to the hardware store and find a color chip that matches my vision and buy it on the spot. None of that bringing home samples business for me! But I’ve worked to change my ways since sharing a home with Jack, and now bring back chips for approval before diving right in like I used to. If you hire me to do this, I promise I’ll let you have approval rights too.

In the last four and a half years, I’ve painted (or wallpapered) over every white wall that was originally in our home in Hurley. I’ve hired people to do some of the painting, but I’ve also done a lot of the painting myself. I actually like painting: I play an audiobook in my headphones and start with a paintbrush on all the corners and edges and trim. Usually I do this without tape—it just seems to end up better that way, and I like the deep concentration required to paint clean straight lines. Then I switch to the roller and finish the job. Certain walls in my house forever remind me of the audiobook I was listening to at the time I painted them. The red hallway is The Four Winds, the walk-in-closet is Big Swiss, the bathroom is The Name of The Wind. Painting while listening to a novel is excellent therapy—with head and hands are fully occupied there’s no room for anxiety. Ditto with gardening.