Benjamin Moore Color Stories
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Wall color to go with reddish brown accent wall?
Comments (1)When I saw your post, I immediately thought of the newest issue of Better Homes and Gardens. They have a section dedicated to palettes. The reddish brown town they have pictured is BM Raisin. The colors they've picked to "go" are: BM Natural Wicker OC-1 - "A warm neutral for large pieces." Jamaican Aqua 2048-60 "Adds the pop. Match small upholstered pieces and pillows to this hue." Raisin 1237 "Try this reddish brown on trim, using a semigloss finish." Porter Ranch Cream 148 "With a hint of peach, this cream takes the starkness out of white ceilings." Intense Peach 081 "A warm shade that's like a comforting blanket on walls. If you're color-shy, limit it to a feature wall." Also, Benjamin Moore is coming out with full spectrum paints (like Ellen Kennon). They've only got it available at 5 retailers now, but will be rolling it out this year. I'll post a link. Good Luck! Here is a link that might be useful: Benjamin Moore's Color Stories...See MoreIs Benjamin Moore 'Ben' paint low end?
Comments (19)I too have had problems with the Ben exterior paint I laid down 3-4 years ago and can't recommend it. First off it bubbled in many spots. I chalked this up to poor surface prep and scraped and painted the bubbles as they happened. Problem solved, except 3-4 years on now and they're still happening. The next thing I noticed was that the color continued to darken over time. Fine I thought, I actually like it a bit darker. Following that I noticed that the low luster sheen disappeared and became flat. "Normal aging" I thought. The last straw was that last summer I had to do some touch up on the south side of the house and realized how wildly badly my saved paint no longer matched that which was on the house. The south side in particular has faded from deli mustard yellow (BM Turmeric) to having a pukie pink undertone. My trim color has changed as well from a dark leathery brown (BM Satchel) to having an annoying luminescent red undertone. BM has suggested that Tumeric in an outside application requires a tinted primer underneath it, but I bought this paint at the largest BM dealer in my city and nobody once mentioned that at purchase. I love the Benjamin Moore color stories interior colors but this Ben exterior line is a bust imho. I won't purchase again and will be looking to Sherwin Williams when I next do the outside. That'll be next summer at this rate. Hell the front of my house is so pink and splotchy with bubble patches that I wish I could do it this year....See MoreHelp me pick the color for my kitchen walls
Comments (6)When we picked out paint colors, we went through several phases: We took pictures of the colors we had to the paint store and held up swatches to them to get a subset of colors we wanted. This got us to about 10 colors per room. Then we went online to the paint's web site, where they had a room simulator that you could populate with colors. This got us down to about 3 colors per room. We then bought sample jars of all our colors, and painted 3' x 4' sheets of posterboard (primed it first) and took turns proping them up on the wall (with 1" strips of trim color) so we could see what it looked like in the actual lighting at that location. That got us down to the final colors, and we are very happy with the results. (Though there were some surprises. Remember that if you have lots of natural light, it is going to pick up the color of everything it hits, and reflect that color onto every other surface. When the sunset hits the floor to ceiling window of the light yellow 5' by 5' mud room, the entire room and the hall outside it is flooded with an intense yellow light. The result is a room that looks 5 shades deeper than the surrounding walls.)...See MoreBenjamin Moore Color Stories
Comments (17)Color Stories! My passion for painting & re-painting & maybe re-painting again made me sign in after a long absence (had to look up my login). I'm always so appreciative of someone offering details & photos, so I'm trying to pay it forward here. Happy designing! :) I have a home with very awkward lighting. Plenty of windows, but still my kitchen & living room are "interior" in the structure, and it's hard to take advantage of the nice windows we do have. So we painted Benjamin Moore Color Stories CSP-1030 throughout our open floor plan. It is a nice effect, but given our low light, we should have gone with a richer color. When designers tell you that you neat a certain amount of natural light to "see" a white, they are correct! I thought this was deep enough, but now I'm wishing we'd gone one shade deeper. What Color Stories does do is illuminate incredible detail in your architecture, your texture, etc. And it plays with light absolutely beautifully. I believe it was $5 more per gallon than the usual Aura Affinity line. I'm attaching photos of my study -- which is about to change to a deeper color. I'm thinking Trench Coat CSP-1020 or Candle Glow CSP-1015. I want a rich embrace of color, and am hoping to achieve the warm, sunlit glow of an autumn field. Also, I have a huge rock fireplace that sits in the living room, opposite of here. It has all manner of rich greys & a bit of golden and rust color. The two rooms should tie in beautifully. I've become more and more sold on appropriate neutrals as a soothing, comforting backdrop & letting art and foo-foos create the magic. So in my photos: Hidden Cove CSP-1030 on walls, and Benjamin Moore Firenze AF-225 on the ceiling. I've had the zingy ceiling for a few years, and I may change it now. I'm in the midst of rearranging, so I only attached a "tidy" shot. Har!...See Morebeaniebakes
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