Green to serene... help us find the perfect color combination
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Comments (39)I have to admit that while I'm great at reading floor plans, site plans confuse me a bit. I know that they matter, so I defer to others on this topic. I do understand the concept of having 12 acres, yet having only one good spot on which to build. I have 40 acres, yet I have one "obvious" spot where the house will be located. Oh, I COULD build in other locations, but it would be more costly (not adjacent to the existing gravel driveway, need to run utilities farther, etc.), but one general area is superior to the others in numerous ways. I don't want to disturb the roughly 50% that's heavily wooded, I don't want to move too close to the little pond in the woods that floods its banks, and I do want to maintain the open field that I rent out to a farmer (this gets me a drastically reduced tax build, and I'm fine with having a corn field behind my house). As for natural light, YES, it matters! Natural light is one of those basics I keep harping upon. Look at some photographs of rooms you like; natural light is most likely the key factor in why these rooms are appealing. To give an example from my current house (though the more examples I give from my sorry old house, the more I wonder why I live here at all), my kitchen /breakfast room /family room faces East. Although I have a covered porch off the back, I get the morning sun in those rooms, and during those morning hours these rooms are at their best. They are MUCH more inviting. The colors are warmer, the room even looks more spacious. By the time we get home from school/work, those prime hours are gone, and although the rooms aren't "dark", they also don't have much life. Colors, window choices, and other things can play into making the most of your natural light, but don't ignore this all-important topic....See Morehelp finding the perfect off white
Comments (5)Maybe BM Monterey White? It is a very creamy off-white and in the historical collection. I don't know that it has a gray undertone - I would say it has a green undertone - but it's on all the trim throughout my house and I like it with the other grieges I'm using. I've used BM Cloud White on trim and furniture as well, and it looks just a little bit gray to me on a paint chip, though very white on the wall....See MoreHelp me find a room to use BM Cedar Green!
Comments (16)You're right Kellienoelle, good eye! They're all different. So how do I figure out which BM color is closest to Pic #1? Honestly, one wonders if BM has realized that they make more money selling the wrong colour than the right color. Not long ago I asked for AFC-350 Tumeric & they mixed 2160-2 Turmeric. (What company has two different paint colors with the name off by ONE letter?) It would've maybe worked out, except the color in the can wasn't EITHER Tum- OR Turmeric, but Carrot-Soup with a hit of Fully-Loaded-Pampers!...See MoreLime Green and Turquoise -- Do You Like the Combination?
Comments (23)I'm sorry Kbmas0n, I wasn't ignoring you, I just forgot to check back to this post. That is our daughter's shared bedroom, playroom, tv room, art room and bathroom area. We redid the upstairs of our 1/2 story home, the upstairs is hip roofed and full of dormers. So if we had cut up the spaces it would have made small, dark, oddly shaped rooms. Instead we reframed the dormer areas, put in sky lights and opened the whole space up .. then gave upstairs to our girls as one big loft like area. I'll put a link a the bottom if you'd like to see more pics as we are working on it and pulling the room together. Cassma, that color is a custom color or really an Oops! ;) *LOL* I was having a hard time finding the perfect lime green. First I bought SW Shagreen, it was pretty, but it wasn't bright enough to go with the other colors in the room. Next I picked out BM Pear Green, which full strength was about neon in that small space. *LOL* So I started mixing .. I cut the Pear Green by about half with the white trim color, then added in a touch of the Shagreen and that's the final wall color in the bathroom up there. :) Here is a link that might be useful: Upstairs...See MoreRevive AI
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