Room-by-room color & finish schedule
The specification, room by room and surface by surface, with the brand, name and code, product and sheen the store will mix from.
The schedule
The "approximate screen swatch" column is a reminder for the printed sheet only; it is not the paint and cannot be. The specification is brand, name/code, product line and sheen. Status: confirmed only when the sample row it points to is confirmed; provisional when a candidate is leading but its sample row is not yet confirmed; unresolved when the surface has a named open question with a plan to answer it (what to sample, where, at what hour) and a date; unresolved is not the same as "unsure". Phase says when it happens: now, next, or later.
By room
Rendered from the rows above and updated as you type. Group by room; each line is surface, color label, brand and name/code, sheen, and status. This is the view to print for the paint store and to keep with the cans.
How to use this sheet
- A row is confirmed only when its sample row is confirmed. The "sample row" column should name the candidate in the sample tracker that met the practical minimum: seen beside the main fixed things, once in daylight and once at the hours the room is used, with a line or two noted. No sample row, no confirmed status; extra days and weather are optional.
- Fixed elements belong here too. The floor, the tile, the counter, the kept sofa and rug get rows with their surface marked fixed and their status confirmed, so that the room reads complete and anyone looking at the schedule can see what the painted surfaces were chosen against.
- One surface per row, one room per row. If the hall and the living room share a wall color, each gets its own row pointing to the same sample; the palette's "repeats across rooms" column in the palette builder records the repetition.
- Write the specification exactly as printed. Brand, color name and code as they appear on the chip or can, the product line, the sheen. That is what the store mixes from. The color label from your palette ("warm mid-neutral") is for you; the code is for the counter.
- Phase it. "Now" is the first project; "next" is what follows when it is done; "later" is what waits for budget or season. The budget and phased plan turns phases into money and dates.
- Print it for the paint store. The "by room" summary below the table prints as a specification: surface, color, brand and code, sheen, status. Take it, and the chips, to the counter.
- Keep unresolved rows visible. A ceiling marked unresolved is honest and useful; a ceiling with no row is a common reason a finished room looks unfinished.
The example rows are Wren Lane: Joan's evening living room after her test in Module 9 (she looked over three days, more than the minimum, because she was unsure about one candidate). The walls and trim are provisional by Joan's choice: they met the minimum beside the sofa, the oak and the rug, in daylight and at the evening hour, but she wants to see them beside a ceiling sample before buying, the ceiling is unresolved, and the kept furniture is entered as fixed and confirmed so the room reads complete. Brand names are placeholders ("Brand A", "Brand B") and the color names and codes are invented, so that the sheet shows the shape of a specification without pretending any real product behaved this way. Your rows will carry real brands, names and codes from the chips and cans in your hands.
The hex swatch in a row is a screen reminder and nothing more: it cannot tell you a paint's undertone, its manufacturer's light reflectance value, or how it will look in your room, and the store cannot mix from it. The specification is the brand, name and code, product line and sheen, which the store mixes from the maker's formula. Product facts (available sheens, primer, coverage) are governed by the can and the maker's technical page; the color decision is governed by your own observation at the hours you use the room, recorded in the sample tracker.