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Help me wrap my head around grey walls!

10 years ago

For those of you who were so sweet to comment of my fireplace dilemma, and reccomend grey walls....help me wrap my head around it! I was planning on brownish tan walls. I do love greyed down colors, and had BM Hampshire Grey (really a greyed down green) in my previous kitchen and dining and Loved it!
But I am having a hard time picturing my traditional/rustic style/brown leather sofa/love of bronze fixtures with a true grey! It seems that the photos of living rooms with grey walls are much more contemporary styled...not me. Even when I go to Houzz, and filter for grey walls and traditional style, they seem much more contemporary. I also bought a "Provence blue distressed dresser that I was hoping to use under the TV, and have a yellow/tarnish/distressed/with brown wood top cabinet I've used in my dining area. Even my master bedroom furniture has a red tint to the brown with bronze hardware...I would love to do Pittsburgh Paints Knights Armor in my MB, (or somewhere between that and the PP Dover Gray)...but I can't see it working with my furniture...everything with grey always seems to be black or white, but I would totally do this bold color in my MB and lots of whites on the bedding....I just can't see it working with my furniture.

I don't like lighter shades of paint...I love medium shades or darker medium shades. I'm not afraid of color, but am not able to picture the living/dining room/kitchen! Fwiw, the kitchen is 1970 cabinets, that I will probably paint awwhite until we redo the whole kitchen in a year....although I would lawn towards a cream with some distressing.
I do like colors that are almost hard to define...I like BM aura, BM, Pittsburgh Paints, and Lambert and Pratt. I like Behr in the store, but have never actually gone with a Behr color...
I'm loading a photo of our current fireplace..still work to be done on it....

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