paint decisions re: RH silver sage & an RH brown

14 years ago

hi everyone,

we are planning on painting our rooms on monday so hope i can get your feedback in time--

i will have to figure out how to post pictures tonight, but to give you a general idea of the layout of our "great room" space:

kitchen and dining room open up to each other with an 8 ft ceiling and then from dining room, it opens up to vaulted 13 ft ceiling family room--kinda like an L shaped space).

2 things we are trying to decide:

1) i was planning on painting our dining rm/kitchen area RH silver sage and the family room a beige (probably BM bleeker beige). although it's all open, i thought it'd be ok to paint the dining rm/kitchen area and family rm different colors since the ceilings are different heights. i thought it would be more interesting and define the different areas. However, our GC recommended just painting one color-- either all silver sage or all beige. any thoughts on this?

2) which RH brown (flax/latte/cappucino) would look good in a room next to the room painted silver sage? basically this would be our living room which is next to this great room. i havent seen flax in person (although our LR is east facing w/picture window just like deconut and the flax doesnt seem too dark). i thought the capuccino looked fine but our gc/designer thought me having dark walnut floors would make the cappucino look too dark and it doesnt flow into the silver sage nicely (b/c it's different intensities). any thoughts? again, it was recommended that i should use the beige i use in the family room for the living room so it "flows", but i dont know. i just dont want it to be so boring with the same color everywhere.

sigh...after 6+ months of looking at colors, i am going crazy (and thinking the best i can do is green and brown?!) and in desperate need of like-minded folks here :0

Thanks!

any feedback/thought is GREATLY appreciated!!!

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trk65
14 years ago
First-
Silver Sage doesn't necessarily look fully green in all applications/lighting/exposures. It's a beautiful color but a bit of a chameleon. The mistake a lot of people make is expecting it to look in their homes like it does in the RH store. You have to keep two things in mind-the trim color RH uses is a super bright pure white, and most RH stores have little or no natural light and are awash in bright can lights. It's one of those colors that you really have to sample as much as you may love it in the store.
Second-
RH is in the process of repainting all of their stores in a color called Slate. It's a really nice chalky gray but it's nothing like Silver Sage. Some people wouldn't want to use a "signature color" like SS now that it's no longer RH's "signature color". Does it 'date' the color? I dunno, but I thought you would like to know that information.
If you do end up going with SS I think Latte would be a nice complimentary color.
Last-don't use RH paint.It's awful. This opinion is based on both my personal experience and the opinions of many on this board that are way more knowledgable than me. Have the colors mixed in another brand. For what RH paint costs ($38/gallon) you can get Benjamin Moore Regal which is FAR superior.
The Benjamin Moore colors that match Silver Sage and Latte are
Grey Wisp CC1570 (Silver Sage)
and
Crisp Khaki 234 (Latte).

Good luck!
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bloved
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks trk65 for all your info!
it's hard. i remember reading a while back almost all the forum discussions here about how RH paint is pretty awful so i had dunn edwards and benjamin moore provide their equivalents of silver sage to me. BM's gray wisp and DE's color were both a lot more blue than RH's silver sage. i happened to have gotten a little sample can of SS so we applied it along with the other 2 on the foamboard and it really didnt look the same. it's tough...i know RH's specialty is not paint, but the color just looks so much better! btw, we also did DE's version of RH latte (which we will use in our bathroom most likely) and RH capuccino (in our office) and it seemed ok, but their SS equivalent was quite off. i also was at the store when they first started painting the color to slate. it honestly doesnt bother me if the SS color isnt "in"...as long as i like it, i'm ok...i want good paint but i just wished the color matched RH SS better (at least in my house). since it's been a while since i read those previous post, can u remind me again-- what was it that people had the most problem with RH? i guess it's either go w/a color that i'm not quite sold to be the color i wanted, but have good quality paint OR love the color that works, but not be putting on the best quality paint
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