Olive Green and Holiday

We went ahead and ordered color samples from Glidden for our dining room. We have it primed but we have been hemming and hawing for months over the color. We always knew we wanted green-but what shade we didn't know. Everything was too yellow,too blue, blah blah blah. So here are the FINAL two greens we are deciding upon:

I know it looks like a baby had an unfortunate accident on our wall :) The chair is a color reference for the funiture we have in the room. We are also redoing the floor a dark wood color. I am leaning towards the darker color on the left. What do you think?

Just for fun, a picture of my cat Holiday-Holly for short:

Look mommy! No paws! We also like to say she looks like a turkey perfect for roasting in this pose.

A little about Holly(since I don't mention the cats much): I rescued her from the shelter eleven years ago-she has a lot of toes that she is hiding in this picture and when I went to go look for a cat her paw and all its million toe glory was hanging out of her cage giving me the "thumbs up". She is super bratty and is always the princess. She is OBSESSED with water and I often find her in the sinks farting around. Her and Mulder are secret friends but her and her kitty brother Chico have never liked each other for some reason. She is quite petite and is actually really funny and VERY squirrely. Her birthday is November 19th.

So there is a little bit about my girl Holly-if I ever get a good picture of my big boy tom cat Chico(he weighs about 20 lbs.!) I will let him tell you a little bit about himself too!

Perfect Shade of Olive

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Okay,so we are finally making some headway on our house! We bought it last August but never had any time to do anything with our horrible work schedules. Now that I am home, we have more time to get stuff done. First project is the dining room. When we moved in it had old stained wall paper and a verigated golden colored rug. We tore up the rugs and got the wallpaper off within the first month but the project was at a standstill until now. We filled in all the holes and gouges and now we are sanding it all down. Hopefully by the end of the week it will all be primered and then paint! We are going with this Egyptian Nile color(I think) by Behr. It is really hard to settle on a color because once you do the "virtual" color thingie on the website it always looks different! I know I want a dark green color,not too bluish, more on the yellow side but not too trendy. Any suggestions?