Picking color for a house is quite a different story than picking color for a painting. I found myself at a loss this weekend at the Home Depot paint chip section. 25 yellows, 25 blues, 25 reds, 25 what the heck, we finally settled on a beautiful shade of Tenderness. Yes, our paint is called Tenderness and we bought three gallons of its tender sweetness. On the way home from the store it suddenly dawned on me that Tenderness is the color of a new born baby boy's nursery room. I told Shannon that I thought we had made a big mistake and we spent the rest of the night, even dreaming about it, trying to convince ourselves that it really wasn't going to look that bad. On Sunday, we painted a test area on the wall and decided that if "not that bad" was our criteria then we had made a mistake. We decided to call this batch a total loss. Shannon liked the color of the original 1930s grey wall that was underneath the 1970s wood paneling. We ran back out to the Homies D for our second chance. They matched the color via their super-duper computer. The paint job is still in progress, but to date, looks great. We might turn our kitchen into the Tenderness room.