Hey everyone, it's Catherine from Design Inside. We're covering the five most common decorating mistakes and now we're going to talk about number three. I'm asked to do this a lot. It's picking paint first. I'm going to explain to you why we shouldn't do that. Next slide. Okay, number one rule is you must have natural light to select the paint. Next slide, I'm going to explain why. All right, number one, there's a lot of undertones and neutrals. Your memory of color is vague. So if you think, oh, I have a gray sofa, is it a warm gray? Is it a cool gray? You have to actually see the fabric in person. Get your samples of fabric and rugs so that you can pick the paint appropriately. Also, your neighbors affect the light around you. So for example, maybe there's a red brick building across the way and you get warm, southern light bouncing off of it, basking the room in warm light. So even though your color is grayish, it's going to read a lot warmer in your experience of it. So you have to think about the exposure of colors around you and what that does to your colors. Next slide. Basically, I want you to know that neutrals can be shifty. There's undertones in all these things depending on if it's morning light, northern light, southern light, evening light of the space. These colors will all look very different from each other in other light. So there you go. That's what you need to know. Bye.