You’d Better Swatch Out: Paint Color Tests

entryways to side-by-side row houses with paint options added to the wall in-between doors
Row houses with side-by-side paint swatch tests, Lawrenceville

America—whether we like it or not—is getting a new paint job real soon. The next resident of America’s address won’t have the option to literally paint The White House you know, any other color, but he’s already decorating his cabinet in a radical new scheme. Will it be Science Denial Green or Paedophile Pink? Fox News Blue or Menstrual Blood Red? From what color interior walls will the poor housekeeping staff be required to scrub the ketchup stains and diaper odors this time around?

Before … Oakland

You’d think it would be easy to get before and after photos of a big painting project … you’d think. We know right where someone was planning to paint—it must be happening soon, so we’ll just check back when the job is done … right?

Not so fast. You’d be surprised how many customers take the initial leap to get a handful of color splotches painted on the front of their home or business only to let that job linger for months—years even—while they figure out what they want to do and how to pay for it.

brick house after new paint job
… and after. Looks like they went with Option #1. Oakland

So we wait … and wait … and, gosh darn it, we’ve waited long enough! We’re running out of time and someone’s just about to kick over the paint can and put Bevis in charge of the cheerleading squad.

Welcome to your new home, America. We don’t know what it’ll be like when the job is done, but it ain’t gonna look the same.

Kind of like this one just as-is. Lawrenceville
brick wall with many colors of paint tested
So many options! Wheeling, WV
paint swatch test on row house front stoop
Let’s get stoopid! Lawrenceville
paint swatch test on brick wall
This feels political. Bloomfield
numbered paint options on wooden doorway
Green party. Point Breeze
large window with display of paint chips inside
Window swatching. Lawrenceville
numbered paint options on garage cinderblock doorway
Which non-offensive neutral color to choose? Point Breeze
paint options applied to different sections of brick on exterior wall
A little advice: don’t choose white person flesh color for your house. Lawrenceville

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