Benjamin Moore Color Stories
Debbie Downer
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Comments (25)Becca, not on walls yet....they have been VERY slow getting out of the ground, a story for the building a home forum. Using a product I picked up at our hardware store that is about 15x15 inches, so certain not perfect but easier to carry around than the large pieces of drywall patch material I was using. Anyway, it is a warm, calm neutral that does not wash out to white. My DR/LR will have 7 ft high pocketing sliding doors on the south/view side and a window wall on the north side. Tricky part is that I will have lots of sun mixed with some very grey, misty afternoons. Rocking chair seems like it will withstand that variation....See MoreWall color to go with reddish brown accent wall?
Comments (1)When I saw your post, I immediately thought of the newest issue of Better Homes and Gardens. They have a section dedicated to palettes. The reddish brown town they have pictured is BM Raisin. The colors they've picked to "go" are: BM Natural Wicker OC-1 - "A warm neutral for large pieces." Jamaican Aqua 2048-60 "Adds the pop. Match small upholstered pieces and pillows to this hue." Raisin 1237 "Try this reddish brown on trim, using a semigloss finish." Porter Ranch Cream 148 "With a hint of peach, this cream takes the starkness out of white ceilings." Intense Peach 081 "A warm shade that's like a comforting blanket on walls. If you're color-shy, limit it to a feature wall." Also, Benjamin Moore is coming out with full spectrum paints (like Ellen Kennon). They've only got it available at 5 retailers now, but will be rolling it out this year. I'll post a link. Good Luck! Here is a link that might be useful: Benjamin Moore's Color Stories...See MoreStaining is NOT an Option Help!!
Comments (8)Haha, that 'too much pride to do it' attitude cracks me up. This means he knows it may not look perfect unless you do a full strip and re-stain and just doesn't want to mess with it. But I don't think it's accurate to say that they are too weathered to fix....it's worth a try. What you do is some light sanding on the weathered areas and then get a stain that is close in color to the current stain and sort of blend it in. Sometimes this looks ok and sometimes it doesn't. Most people are okay with giving it a try at least....that's better than painting the thing for sure....See MoreHelp me pick the color for my kitchen walls
Comments (6)When we picked out paint colors, we went through several phases: We took pictures of the colors we had to the paint store and held up swatches to them to get a subset of colors we wanted. This got us to about 10 colors per room. Then we went online to the paint's web site, where they had a room simulator that you could populate with colors. This got us down to about 3 colors per room. We then bought sample jars of all our colors, and painted 3' x 4' sheets of posterboard (primed it first) and took turns proping them up on the wall (with 1" strips of trim color) so we could see what it looked like in the actual lighting at that location. That got us down to the final colors, and we are very happy with the results. (Though there were some surprises. Remember that if you have lots of natural light, it is going to pick up the color of everything it hits, and reflect that color onto every other surface. When the sunset hits the floor to ceiling window of the light yellow 5' by 5' mud room, the entire room and the hall outside it is flooded with an intense yellow light. The result is a room that looks 5 shades deeper than the surrounding walls.)...See Moreceezeecz
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