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Suggestions for Home Office paint color

8 years ago

Hello! :) Looking for paint color suggestions for a home office. The room is an upstairs bedroom that I am dedicated to a home office. The hallway color is Sherwin Williams Whole Wheat...in search of a color that will flow well with that hall color. Not looking for anything dark. Furniture will most likely be Pottery Barn Bedford collection in the white finish. My initial thought was to go with a creamy yellow, but they all seem to clash with the Whole Wheat.

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8 years ago

Whole wheat is a very pretty color, but I agree hard to pair with yellow. You may want to consider something like SW Grasslands which is a sagey green.

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8 years ago
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Thanks! I'll have to check that color out. I have BM Dried Basil downstairs in the DR, maybe a lighter shade off that card would go. Part of the challenge is to keep that "color flow" throughout the house. My house has a VERY open layout, so I want to create that flow without being boring and using the same color everywhere.

Down the hall (which is a very open hallway by the way haha) is the MBR which is BM Palladian Blue. Besides the sagey green option, are there other colors that coordinate well?? Whole Wheat seems to be one of those colors that goes with so much, it even looks wonderful alongside the palladian blue bedroom.

I also read somewhere that someone used SW Ivoire or Blonde in a home that had Whole Wheat all over, but when I hold those paint chips against the Whole Wheat, they seem so similar and don't seem to go.
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8 years ago
SW Jersey Cream
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8 years ago
Thanks Tibbrix! Do you have experience with that color combo? On screen it definitely looks like it coordinates well! I know of course, I have to test in my lighting.
Yayagal
8 years ago
Antique white and True Penny are recommended by SW to work with the antique white
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Annie Deighnaugh
8 years ago
Maybe a design seed will help.
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User
8 years ago
I don't have experience with that color combo, but I clicked through the interior coordinating paints for Whole Wheat, that Jersey Cream came up and I thought it looked like a nice combination and along the lines of what you seem to be looking for.
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8 years ago
That design seed thing is so cool! I've never seen that before.

tibbrix - where did you click through interior coordinating paints? Was that on the SW website? I tried looking on there last night but got confused.
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8 years ago
Yes, if you pull up the color on the SW site, underneath it you'll see an option for "coordinating colors", and you can click through it by clicking on the "interior" side.
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8 years ago
I have the fan deck and the Jersey Cream does look pretty next to the Whole Wheat.
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8 years ago
Yes I have the paint chip for Jersey Cream and it does indeed look very nice next to the Whole Wheat. Guilford Green has also captured my attention (I read somewhere that this is BM color of the year). When I hold it up to my Whole Wheat wall, it seems like it goes. And it also seems like it would complement the palladian blue I have in the bedroom down the hallway. I'm going tomorrow to get samples of both Jersey Cream and Guilford Green.
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8 years ago
Also check out BM Seedling, which is such a nice green

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