Blue wall paint on cover of May Martha Stewart Living

16 years ago

I am going crazy trying to find out the paint color of the wall on the May 2008 issue cover. I have to say I am a beige, green person but color has me in it's grasp!!

Any idea!!

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moonshadow
16 years ago
Have you checked "The Guide" in the back of the magazine?
I checked on line, and it shows the May 2008 cover (see photo below).

If that's the one, I'll try to help the only way I know how ;) Lowe's carries Martha's paint line now. Knowing Martha, she's probably using her own line of colors. ;-) I have the Lowe's software that contains her color palette. (Have some of the swatches but can't find them.) I've run through the blues in a sample room in the software, using a room that has white for comparison to the magazine cover photo. The closet ones I found are shown below. (Please keep in mind monitors and video cards will throw colors off, but she only has a few choices in blues that are that vivid, and looks like a hint of green it it. It is a pretty color!)

Cover:

"Summer Day" #MS281

"Splash" #MS284

"Blue Agave" MS336

"Open Sky" MS283

"Blue Aster" MS282

If I had to venture a guess, I'd say it's either Blue Agave or maybe Open Sky with lighting on it for photography.

Hope that helps!
dastowers
Original Author
16 years ago
Wow!! Thank you so much for going to all that trouble! I have to agree the Agave looks closest. Blue is such a tough color to pin down.
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Honeybeen, Moonshadow is right, I am a huge fan of the old Martha colors, and the woman who designed them. In the interest of keeping things simple, I will throw out a few Ben Moore Colors for you to consider. Take a look at Chalk White 2126-70, Silver Crest 1583, Cascade Mountains 862. Those are just a place to start. You might also like Ellen Kennon's Gustavian Gray. Hard to say what it will do in your home, but it is a lively complex color which leans blue, green, gray at various times of the day. General things to keep in mind are that color will appear differently in your home than in mine or anyone else's. Depending on how much and what kind of light you have, the colors above may or may not wash out. If you have a lot of natural light from a southern exposure, for example, you may need to go with a more saturated color. What else you have in the room, as well as your trim color, will make a big difference because color is what it is in relationship to what's around it. Anything in the room that lives on the opposite side of the color wheel will bring out the blue-ness of the paint. Put a terra cotta sofa or artwork against the walls and they will read blue. Put a navy sofa in there and they will read gray. Finally, I will tell you what I tell clients...a little blue goes a long way! You are absolutely right in looking for a gray with a hint of blue.
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Lori A. Sawaya
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Take the cover and have it matched. Pratt & Lambert would be my first choice, then BenM for a color like that.

The cover has enough open and consistent area for them to be able to grab for a match. Test it as an exact match and then you might want to consider asking them to tone it down just a snidge. Too bright and too clear are usually things to steer clear of. That color matched and dulled a bit would make a pretty room.
nowstarter
16 years ago
you can view all the martha stewart colors from the previous sherwin williams /kmart stores and the new lowes collections here

Martha Stewart
paint colors old and new

Here is a link that might be useful: martha stewart
magnolialady
16 years ago
The color is Vintage Map.

Here is a link to get started. Get registered free and start a paint project with Martha Stewart colors. The paint palette you are interested happens to be the one shown for example.

http://www.valspar.com/painter.html

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