Rant on Painting

Why, WHY is painting so frustrating?! I spent so much time and thought picking out JUST the right shades for each room, and buying all the materials. Then I paint the room, in this case my bathroom, and of course don't notice that it's way too bright until I'm completely done with the first coat. Then I think, damn that's too bright. That's really obnoxious. Now I'll have to try to tone it down.

So then I get out some black paint to try to tone it down, but then I add too much. And now it's both too dark and too gray in tone. So then I add white. But then it's just a lighter shade of the color I originally liked taken grayish, which looks awful. So, because I was using a lighter and darker paint of the same swatch, I tried mixing more of the darker color in, because of course I'd added black and white to the entire can of the lighter paint I had left. And then my container is too full and the only thing I can find to use is a plastic trash bin from my guest room. And I also tried adding a tan color that I'm going to use in the guest room to help offset the gray, oh and some light blue that I'm going to use in the master. So after seven tries, I finally get a paint color I think is okay. Painstakingly (cause I'm a perfectionist and because now that this is a slightly different color, I have to apply a full coat, not just patch work), I repaint and come within drops of running out altogether.

AND I've only painted two bathrooms so far and have hopes to paint EVERY ROOM IN THE HOUSE. What am I thinking?! It's tough because there is no paint on the walls; it's just the construction plaster so the walls just suck up the paint. Grr... I just keep telling myself it will look so beautiful soon... it will be all worth it...

Didn't have a large enough container so used a trash bin.