Gray walls with oak trim? Can it work?
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2ajsmama
14 years agoNot oak, but I have Honey Maple stained woodwork (here with natural cherry furniture) and gray-blue walls in MBR. This is BM's Horizon.
Sorry for the boxes in corner and lampshades on table - but here you see the window trim and more furniture.
DS has the same color walls with blue carpet, pine furniture. I like the contrast b/t warm and cool, most of my house is green or blue walls.
Bathroom is blue, one strip of gray (Light Pewter) b/t the hamper cubby and the tub, where hooks are. Sorry I don't have a pic of that wall with baseboard though. Here's the light blue (White Satin) wall with window trim.
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14 years agoWell that was flattering - Thanks!
I do think that grey can work w/ golden oak trim but sample, sample, sample! Grey can be cool or it can be warmed up w/ brown undertones like BM Revere Pewter (which is what I have in our LR) It reads very warm but still grey. One wall often looks stone grey.
I have oak trim but it is stained quite dark and I noticed that when I went cool grey the orange in it was quite pronunced. Here's one pic of a dark cool grey. Liked it but it got a bit to 'goth' loking fr me.
To all the grey's I've loved before - who've travelled in and out my door......
So here are some of my pics of greys I've tried (I have other shades and pics but they aren't loaded):
Cool:
Warm:LR (BM Revere Pewter): Please note that these ARE NoT the finished pics - this was my sample. I love this color and am just tweaking the room as small finishing touches arrive from E-bay. The accent colors are navy blue, cream and tan:
SW Martha Stewart Thunderhead. When the men at work saw this color they LoVED it! How often does a man comment on wall color let alone more than 1?!
Light warm grey - SW MS Sandpiper w/ Garden Clogs ceiling:
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Old pics of my MBR done in SW Requisite Gray. I should have left a good thing alne! This gray seemed to be right on the bridge of cool/warm. The darker colors on the strip def. had brown undertones. Such a great color especially w/ blue or purple accents. Really, really love this color especially w/ dried Nikko Blue hydrangea flowers. Would def. recommend sampling this color! When I went lighter on the same strip I thought it went very pinky (magenta is added to it) and I didn't like it at all:
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{{!gwi}}Not sure if my nightstand is oak or pine but has an orangish tone:
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W/ gold accents:
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And SW Backdrop in alcove (same strip as RG)ignore the mess of the dresser painting.:
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14 years agoI have to make this lamp work in our room.
Was originally planning sage green walls.
This is our headboard:
My steal of a deal bedding:
Oak going on in the room:
Right now I'm feeling a sage green is safer and easier. My oak is pretty orange.
hamsundm
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14 years ago2ajsmama
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14 years agoSome pics of DS's room (pardon the tween boy mess - I managed to avoid taking pics of the unmade bed).
Horizon paint color - I forgot, his trim isn't stained, just beeswax and boiled linseed oil but it's somewhere b/t a "natural" pine and honey.
Bunk beds (ignore the box spring underside) in sunlight
bookcase - maybe darker pine than bed plus a shadow but I did use flash
Desk cubby (dark) and edge of closet trim (beeswax) - I think the flash washed out the side of the closet a little though
And, what you were waiting for - he has an oak dresser! This is next to a window, so the paint is under an east-facing window, no light but flash.
Finally, here's BM Light Pewter with no stain, poly-only baseboard in bathroom. The colors are pretty true in this pic (a little bit of White Satin showing around the corner to the tub).
hamsundm
14 years ago
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