I'd say you're doing some things very right since you have your painter, electrician, and granite fabricators all there in the space of a week. As they say over on the paint forum, it's just paint, you can change it if you really don't like it.

Don't know if this will help with the chandys, but here's an idea. Put one of the three completely out of sight. Then just look at the remaining two, and make a trial choice. Then assign them heads and tails and literally flip a coin. You may likely have a gut reaction to what happens, that is, you may be relieved that the coin toss agreed with your choice or you may be disappointed. I suggest this method because it is "gut" based, and it can give you real information, just using a different brain path.

Then put away the eliminated chandy, leave the chosen one, and bring out the one that's been out of sight. Repeat the entire process with this pair, and you may have a final choice among the three.

Your project is moving along so well, it will be fun to see your progress in the next few days!

Second guessing is very common. If you can view it as a sign of this project being very important to you instead of being an action item, you'll be one step ahead of me. :)

Just curious, what paint color did you tell him?

Laurie

Smiling's coin flip strategy can indeed sometimes force a choice. Definitely try it, nutty as it sounds.

Once a random choice is "made", it sometimes shocks you into regret for one that was not chosen. Then you know!

If not, then you either picked the right one, or they were all really fine to begin with and you'll be happy with any of them.

As for the paint, there is no way a human can choose from a little paint chip. It's not just you being indecisive! It just doesn't look the same. If at all possible, get samples of leading contenders and start slapping it on some big patches on the walls. Yes, it will make things ugly, but it won't be for long. I guarantee it will make the selection much easier.

Then, maybe, holding the various fixtures up against a good big patch of paint you like will jog something loose in your head and it will aaaaaaallllll become clear. Abstract is too hard. It makes my head hurt.

Good luck!

smiling: great advice. I think part of the problem is that I am just plain sick of making decisions. I know I sound like a spoiled brat....me, getting a brand new beautiful kitchen and omg dont make me make another decision!!
bmore: Yep, thats right! I just get paralyzed by decisions and then I just want to toss in the towel on everything.

msrose: Shaker Beige. Blech. I mean, I love that color, but not in my kitchen with maple toffee cabinets and verde peacock granite. I wish I would have gone with a grey-green instead. But luckily there isnt alot of wall to paint so I can always re-do it myself.

growlery: Im going to try smiling's advice tonight! Hopefully, tomorrow, I can post the "results"!

Yep. Some things you just have to let go.

One shaker beige primer coat is a small concession. It takes me a leisurely afternoon (prep, drying time and cleanup included) to do 2 coats on the walls in my kitchen.

There'll be plenty of time to get exactly the color you want after they blow through, if you still want to. (You may even decide you like it more than you think.) You'll have that kitchen a long time. It's going to get many paintings.

Once you make the decision about the lighting, and it's up, you really won't agonize. It'll become part of the house and you'll be onto the next thing.

And, personally, I think coordination is overrated. The more disparate elements you have, the more it looks like you planned to be "eclectic".

Works for me anyway!

"Shaker Beige. Blech. I mean, I love that color, but not in my kitchen with maple toffee cabinets and verde peacock granite"

sorry. that does sound rather bland.

Don't be sorry.... I totally agree.
I made that decision under the pressure of the painter standing in front
of me telling me he was going to go get the paint that afternoon. I guess I could have told him I wasn't ready yet but the project gad been delayed
a week at that point an d I just wanted to get the ball rolling again.
So I looked at the wall where there were at least 7 or 8 sample splotches
and chose the safest, most boring one. I knew it was the wrong one. But like I said above, I have a very small amount of wall being painted and knew that I could repaint it myself which probably sounds like a waste of money.... But really the painter was hired to take down the 3 layers of old
wallpaper and prep the walls which was accomplished.. The actual painting was just the icing.

OK some good news. I asked the painter to hold off putting the final coats up until next week and he was fine with it!

Soooo..now Im looking at some grey-greens. Boxerpups had posted a pic in a post I made when I was trying to choose a color a couple of weeks ago. It was a kitchen with medium maple cabs and grey-green walls. But she didnt know the name of the paint. Anyway, I showed the BM guy at the paint store the picture on my iPhone (Gotta love the iPhone!!) and he gave me a few ideas....
So at least I have some time to think about that now...
Now I just have to pick out that chandy!! Thanks, y'all!

So what are the gray-greens that the pa;int guy came up with?

I'm doing the exact same thing, sometimes feeling like I can't make one more decision, sometimes tempted just to pick something to get it done, sometimes allowing that anxious feeling to rise when I've made a decision and it's now "too late" to change it. Like the granite I just called on. The windows were the first decision like that (and our first decision, period). I realize I've done that with every single thing. Thank the Lord I have plenty to keep it in perspective so that feeling doesn't last long.

There's a reason why you've picked most of the things you have chosen... Did you ever take the Sweeby Test? If so, go back to those answers. If not, now might be a good time? (Never too late.)

Here is a link that might be useful: Sweeby Test

smilings advice about how to choose is excellent.
That is how i chose my glass and i have had raves about it.

Good luck - and I do agree about there being Sooooooo many decisions

How I sympathize with you!
Oh, the memory this brings back!

I had left early on a Friday to babysit our DG for the weekend content that I had purchased paint needed on site for that day.
I carefully, or so I thought, chose Chai Latte for our newly constructed hallway.
I just knew it would be a soft but cheery color for a hall with no natural light.
Our DS phoned me mid morning asking if the Chai Latte was what I really wanted for the walls.
Oh yes, that's the one!
You're sure.
Yes, I'm sure.
Okay, just wanted to double check.
That evening my husband phoned and says he loves the color and knows I will too.
That alone should have given me fair warning.
My excuse for not picking up on this: the demands of our active DG that short circuited my brain cells.
However, I remained blissfully unaware.
Returning on Sunday I eagerly looking forward to the progress that had been made.

Oh, dear hearts, when I walked into that hallway I was speechless!
I immediately thought to myself,
"Woman, you have fallen into a carton of orange sherbet!
This was so not the reaction I had expected.
My DH said don't you love it!
I just said, oh aha.
Just then DS phones and asks how do you like the paint?
I said, I don't!
He said, me either!
After painting a two foot area, he said the color had reminded him of the color of St. Joseph Baby Aspirin,
He checked with DD but since DD said he really liked it . . .
he had kept on painting.
Chai Latte was Natte good color and has since been replaced.

Disastrous choices happen, paint we think we'll love, fixtures that are 'it' and lighting that we just know will be perfect!
Only they're not. It's the nature of remodeling when making decisions, decisions, decisions.

So, cawfeegirl, hang in there, it will all work out!
In the meantime, you might have a Latte!