Revere Pewter walls....what color ceiling
Hi all,
You may remember that I've been painting my first floor rooms for about a year now. The new foyer color that I finished last fall is BM Revere Pewter and I would like to paint the ceiling a color too. Not just white.
The adjacent rooms are the dining room, which is painted BM Iron Mountain. For the ceiling in this room I played around with some samples I had and came up with a barely there gray with the barest hint of blue....
The home office is BM Chelsea Gray and for the ceiling in this room I also mixed what I had on hand (BM Restrained Gold and BM White Dove) and have a pale yellow.
I wanted to do a very pale aqua blue on the foyer ceiling and picked up a sample of BM Palladian Blue yesterday. It is much too dark and leans too green for what I had in mind. I'm just not in the mood to mix paints this time.
Has anyone used a really pale barely there aqua? Do you all think aqua would work in this space or should I do the same blue/gray on the dining room ceiling? Or go a totally different direction like that other BM favorite Edgecomb Gray?
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bronwynsmom
11 years agoWith gray, I have often used the palest possible hint of peachy pink on the ceilings. It warms the space up wonderfully, and picks up the rosiness in your pretty cheeks! I tried it to draw up the pink in the portrait, and it worked so well that I've used it in other projects since.
Here's an example from our old library (sorry I keep recycling the same old photos, but it's what I have to illustrate this one...). You can barely see the pink, but it's there! In the second photo, it looks much stronger than it looked in real life.
This color is called Peach Tulle, and I think it was Martin Senour. A similar one is SW 7117 Melon Tint.
babs711
11 years agoRelated Discussions
Color experts, Rever Pewter Smokey Blue, and..Grey Owl??
Comments (4)mtnrd...lol I am not either, but I will take opinions from absolutely anybody that will listen to me! My husband is not one of them anymore ;-/ joanieponie thanks, I am looking for a light color for this room, it is on the dark side of our house and doesn't get much light. Plus a color to possibly make the 2 Ive chosen make a little more sense together. My painter says it looks like an ode to the Dallas Cowboys...eeeek!! As an Eagles fan I was especially concerned! I remember looking at raccoon hollow & its medium/dark taupe I think. Does look nice next to Revere Pewter though!...See MoreBM Revere Pewter....I love this color! (Pics)
Comments (21)Thanks Lisa, and everyone else who complimented the color! I've tried BM Duxbury Gray, BM Gray Owl and BM Fieldstone and none worked quite the way I wanted in the last few months. So I understand the frustration of seeing a color look great in someone else's home but not work in your own. I ended up mixing the Gray Owl and Fieldstone and came up with a color that I really like. It is my second choice for the family room along with Revere Pewter. I'm going to start a new thread for that so please stop by and take a look. DH said this B&B wainscot was the easiest project I've given him yet and the cheapest. We did picture frame wainscoting in the study and dining room earlier this year and added a coffered ceiling to the dining room. You can see a hint of each in the photos above. The wainscoting for the stairs is made of 1 sheet of 1/2" MDF cut into 3 inch width's. The entire project, w/o paint, cost $30. I was at work when he did it (I supervise too much) and he said once he figured out the correct angles that the sawing and nailing part only took a couple of hours....See MoreNeed vanity color to go with Ben Moore Revere Pewter walls
Comments (7)That changes my suggestion, yes…. Thinking you have a lot of the same (I have Revere Pewter on my walls and ! I have your floor tile in a bathroom). What I have found to be the perfect accent color to all the taupes and whites is black…I bought two new spool chairs in black…I added two end tables in an Annie Chalk black paint on either side of my white English arm sofa, with white lamps, and have a wall collage of antique botanical ferns that I reframed in black. But, not any black…B.M Midnight 2131-40. That is what I would paint the vanity. As for hardware, in a bathroom, I like chrome finish…bright and clean, but that is your choice. Otherwise, brushed stainless is my choice. One word of warning, sometimes brushed nickel can look pink, or sometimes a grungy yellow tone. Not my favorite....See MoreHelp with foyer paint color to complement Revere Pewter
Comments (14)When it comes to transition areas, it's often a good idea to go with a neutral as they are more versatile. Transitional areas like entryway/hallways can have SO many colours going off of them, and choosing a 'colour' for this area, can limit you in other rooms. Personally, I would go for the soft, simple approach of Benjamin Moore Edgecomb Gray :). https://www.kylieminteriors.ca/colour-review-edgecomb-gray-benjamin-moore/ Also check out Benjamin Moore Stonington Gray which is GORGEOUS, but if this area is as low-light as it looks, you may want to lighten it by 25%! https://www.kylieminteriors.ca/paint-colour-review-benjamin-moore-stonington-gray-hc-170/...See Morenamarie
11 years agohomeagain
11 years agoOooh, I like the pink, however, I don't think I have even one pink item in my house. Does that matter?
babs, I've seen RP in other home photos and it looks much more beigey. It is always gray in my home.
Namarie. Glass slipper is a pretty color. The problem seems to be that any color on the ceiling looks 2-3 shades darker than on the wall. I painted an entire wall with the Palladian blue in my daughter's bath and it looks just like it does on the chip. But on the ceiling it is much darker.
I think I have to go with a barely there color to get the look that I want. I think RL Baslt is closest to what I have in mind. A very barely there blue.
Any other barely there colors you could suggest?
bronwynsmom
11 years ago
denali2007
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LuAnn_in_PA