An all neutral room needs some color
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Calling All Color Gurus - Need some Paint Color Advice
Comments (14)Hi Chefwong, I want to reiterate a previous posters comments about white paint in dark space; white won't make your room look brighter lighter. White needs alot of light to come alive. If you look at white rooms in magazines you'll notice they have a tone of daylight and they light the room professionaly. In dark rooms it's really better to go mid tone colors. What colors do you respond to? Blue, green, yellow? You might get a paint deck from Sherwin Williams or Benjamin Moore and browse the deck and see what you respond to. Also, the site below might be useful to help visualize colors in room. But note too that most of these rooms have alot of light when they are photographed. Here is a link that might be useful: Favorite paint colors blog...See MoreNeed help with neutral paint color
Comments (3)I just painted 20 chunks of drywall with "neutral" colors that aren't white. Amazing how different simiilar colors can appear in different locations! I had to carry them all over the house to finally make up my mind: you do actually start to see pink, lavendar, green, yellow, etc. in what you think is just plain tan. So here are my thoughts on this: First, head to Home Depot and check out the Ralph Lauren selection. RL is more expensive than other brands but my husband really likes how it goes on and their colors are the best! I ended up with "Sisal" from the Naturals collection as the primary color for my whole house. I live in the redwoods so there's not a ton of light, but even though I thought at first this color would be too dark, the designer I'm working with convinced me and now that it's going up I really like it! You might also look at "Barn Owl White" although this one turned out too yellow for my taste. "Tangier Island" and "English Tan" were also close contenders, each had an element of color that didn't quite work in the end. Be sure to get a sample and paint a chunk or two of wall before committing. Those 8 oz RL testers cost me $5.99 each but I'm glad I spent the money to be sure I got what I wanted. (I know I went overboard with 20, but that's how I tend to approach all decisions!) The other thing I learned this week is that not every paint color can be really, truly matched in another brand. We were hoping to get our "sisal" color in the Behr flat enamel, which is cheaper and also is supposed to be very washable. The guy at Home Depot told me that they can match most colors in any paint with another brand, but that the RL colors with red in them are hard to get exactly. Interestingly, we decided to do a side by side comparison with the Behr and the RL and as much as I didn't want to spend the extra money on RL, both my husband and I saw a difference and liked the RL better. So we're proceeding on with that one in eggshell in the kitchen and may do the less messy rooms in matte. I did a bit of scrubbing on my sample boards and it seems to hold up well. Hope this helps....See MoreNEED HELP! Need some ideas for a neutral paint color
Comments (3)would manchester tan be a good choice...See MoreBest accent colors for otherwise brown and neutral room
Comments (15)I LOVE that lamp! Thank you so much! Yes, his art mostly consists of old black and white photographs, old wooden snow shoes and skis (this is a ski house). He's about to downsize from his primary house in another city and spend more time at the ski house. His primary house has some more colorful art in it that is very beautiful, so I can probably facilitate him bringing some of the art up there....See MoreUser
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