I had the kitchen and living area painted a light ecru/beige results:BLAH! I have downsized to this home, love the location, neighbourhood, and neighbours! Yet, this colour scheme leaves me flat and feeling ho-hum.
#MINDFUL GRAY EXTERIOR WINDOWS#
All other rooms are various shades of browns and all windows have white trim. The kitchen walls were a hmmmm I’d call it dark orange, but I expect it has a fancy name. The kitchen cabinets are dark wood as well. My problem is my floors are a dark brown hardwood with white trim throughout. However, I have zero ability to picture colours. I have just read through your “Paint colour home tour” and certainly learned tips and to-do’s. Really need some guidance! Thank you so much. And should I carry same color throughout? Bedrooms are quite small and I have two and a half baths and a laundry room. And should I keep ceiling white or go with a color? I tried Tame Teal and it was intense. Floors are a driftwood type color as are cabinets. With a good deal of light in the afternoon, I’m torn over going warm or cool. Lattitude is, well, gray, and Palladian I think too intensely green.
The Sea Salt has an interesting way of changing with the light and can look gray, bluish or greenish. I’ve tested Colonnade Gray which seemed dark on some walls, Repose which felt warm and pleasant, but a bit bland, and now I’m testing cooler SW shades: Sea Salt, Lattitude and Palladian Blue by BM. Here’s mine: we’re buying a newly built home which is really a cottage but the living room, kitchen and dining area are open concept with eleven foot ceilings and they all face south or southwest. Thanks for a great site and I love that you respond to all questions/comments. The exterior was painted in Ellie Gray (SW 7650) by Sherwin Williams with Extra White trim and Tricorn Black accents. Ok, with all that administrative observation out of the way, here is a run down of our last home by paint colors. Get your peel and stick paint samples here. I hope you find this tool as helpful as I have! It allows you to move the sample around in the room to catch the different lights. Samplize will send you a reusable peel and stick sheet made with real paint. And due to challenges in getting paint samples these days, I am excited to share a better option. I’ve never had a problem with paint swatches all over my walls, but I realize that’s sometimes inconvenient. Even after doing this job for years, I still bring paint samples into each space and watch them at different times of day before making a decision. I always recommend testing colors in the actual space where you intend to use them. Second, all colors take on variations as they are found in different lights, and since I usually take pictures with plenty of sunlight streaming in, you can expect the colors to be on the lighter side. It is the screen color they have assigned to their pigment, but it does not account for light reflecting off an actual paint swatch or painted wall. I think there are two reasons for that: first, the paint swatch color is taken from the paint manufacturer’s website (which in this case happens to be all Sherwin Williams). Second, you may notice that most of my pictures look quite a bit lighter than the color swatch. However, all these colors look lovely with true white trim, too (I know because I have used some in my current home where the trim is white and because we did use true white in some of the rooms as we udpated the home). It made it tricky to pick wall colors… So if you have a cream colored trim, this is an especially great resource for you. That post also includes links to the various projects and room makeovers, so be sure to go visit if you have questions.īefore I go through the colors, I want to make three observations: How trim color affects wall paint choicesįirst, this home’s original interior trim color was very creamy yellow. You can tour the complete before and after here if you are interested. These are the colors used in our last house: our 1940 colonial in the city. Paint Color Home Tour: Nature-Inspired NeutralsĪs you will quickly see, this is not our current home.
#MINDFUL GRAY EXTERIOR PLUS#
So today I want to share a complete paint color home tour: warm and cool neutrals plus some nature-inspired greens and blues that all flow together beautifully. Paint colors can be hard, and they obviously set the tone for the whole house. Actually, it’s the most common question I am asked in person, too (regarding interior design, that is). I think the most common question I am asked on the blog and social media is what paint color I used in any given space.
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