Help with grey paint shade for multiple rooms
Esther Peare
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Shades of grey for main living area help!
Comments (2)Thanks! Agreeable and Popular are standing out to me on those cards. Anyone know if I should prime the walls first or ok to paint right over current colors?...See More50 shades of gray (paints) is driving me mad!
Comments (67)Stop and take a bunch of deep cleansing breaths. Don't make any hasty decisions about fixes, please! If you have any drop cloths on the floors, pick them up. Put down your rugs, set up your furniture, hang the drapes. This may all sound counterintuitive because you'll need to put that stuff back if you have to repaint anything. But if you don't have the regular elements of your house in place you are not seeing the color the way it is going to look on a daily basis. Next, take a bunch more deep breaths. Nothing is unfixable; it will be okay. It may not get fixed in time for your family gatherings, but that will be okay, too. In fact, if you can possibly not say anything about your dissatisfaction with the paint it's entirely possible nobody else will notice. (I know it would be really hard not to say anything, but if you could pull that off nobody would be the wiser. Show them all the features you love about your house and they will hardly even notice the walls.) I'm not the person to give you the advice you need for how to fix this if it needs fixing. I think the experts here are going to want more pictures to be able to advise you. My completely amateur take from the small amount of info I can get from your pics is that the accent wall may be the source of the problem. But I'll defer to those who know way more than me and can explain what you can do with lighting and paint to fix things. Again...it will be okay! Focus on the good and what you love about your house and how it's going to be a great place to live for the coming years....See MoreHELP,what shades of gray paint on stucco, board and bat stone and roof
Comments (1)post a picture of the actual rock you are using, and the color of your roof. those are going to dictate the tone of the grays. Ditto the wood beams. what stain color? why can't you have white anything??...See MoreHelp with gray paint for boy’s room
Comments (7)Find something of the shade of grey you wanted, and take it to the paint store and ask them to match it. Cool greys can be very unpleasant to live with, look like cement. I got a nice effect once by painting a room dove grey with white trim and a delicate pale birds-egg blue ceiling. Maybe that approach could take advantage of reflected light to give you the effect you want. Good luck!...See MoreSJS Interiors
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