Help! I told my builder I can't possibly choose all wall paint colors before I see our spaces more finished - especially how kitchen looks once cabinets (BM Revere Pewter) are installed and I see how they look in the space and look from one room to other. The kitchen/dining, a library, and living room all flow into each other - see photo below (though there will be a cherry floating panel between the spaces to sort of separate them.)

Anway, he's pushing me to at least choose the ceiling color so he can get in all the recessed lights and do floors because they said they always paint walls before doing floors. (Can't they just put drop cloths?) So the color consultant suggested just picking Atrium White for whole downstairs open space, but should I just tell builder he has to wait?

Upstairs in bedroom, we painted one room BM Wickham Gray with Affinity Steam ceiling/trim and I think it looks fine. Our master bedroom has a DK37 blue for part of ceiling and DK5 on the slanted part (not painted yet in photo below) The blue looks great, not sure I love the other color, but again, we had to move in and he was pushing (plus I was really getting tired of spending $26 on sample pots of DK trying to decide color #2. I don't think I will go that route again, but seeing that it was a tricky room with a lot of angles, assymetry, and 10 windows with SW light, color consultant strongly suggested using DK there.) We still cannot decide what to do about trim - same as wall color to not emphasize the bank of windows, or something different to highlight them. (Any suggestions?)

Back to celings --

My architect suggests not doing any white ceilings, but instead to do 50% or 25% of wall color. If we do paint ceiling a color, than obviously I can't choose that until wall color is chosen. Should I just stand my ground and tell him he can paint when we are closer to end? I am thinking about asking if I can remove painting from the contract and then hire my own painter when I am ready to choose.

Yikes - I feel as if they ask me "have you chosen the paint colors?" one more time, I am going to shoot myself (or them.) PS - I am probably feeling particularly crabby today since they left door open this morning and dog ran away. Fortunately, someone found him.

Sorry, I don't know how to get photos smaller.

Living room looking into kitchen/dining

kitchen/dining looking into living room

blue ceiling in MBR

{{!gwi}}