What wall paint colors for mid century mod house in woods?
Morning everyone,
We're moving soon to a house in the forest in the mid Atlantic region and want to update the wall paint colors of the new house before we move in. We'd like the house to look open, inviting, warm, and peaceful. There are warm oak floors throughout the upstairs. Tile and carpet on the ground level. There's green foliage in all of the windows probably 8 months of the year of the year. The front of the house (the side with the wall of sliding doors and windows) faces East. The windows that span the top of the living room face South. The dining room and kitchen face West.
For ease, we'd prefer to do a single wall paint color for most of the common areas of the house and am considering a darker paint color for the den, bedrooms, and bathrooms. We'd love suggestions for trim, ceiling, closet, and door colors that go with the wall paint too!
The current frontrunners that we're considering are:
SW Alabaster
SW Creamy
SW Shoji White
SW White Duck
Thanks so much for your thoughts!
Comments (11)
PRO4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoGreat that you informed about the orientation of the house. With two exposures it is a toss up. I concentrate on which is the dominating light, South or East?
South light controlling, I would choose B.M. Gray Owl or B.M Grant Beige.
East light controlling, I would choose Weston Flax.
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4 years agoThanks everyone for your thoughts! I'm leaning toward acm's suggestion of a warm white everywhere but the kitchen, and doing a pale gray there. The frontrunner right now is BM Swiss Coffee for all the other rooms with Swiss Coffee trim and BM Simply White on the ceiling. Thoughts?
For the kitchen, it's tricky because the cabinets are a cream color (not obvious in the photos), but the countertops and floors are quite cool and gray. What is a light wall color that would harmonize those two different elements well but also complement the rest of the house's Swiss Coffee walls?
Would BM Pale Oak do the trick? Or maybe BM White Dove?
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So I had to share because I ended up paying a designer to come in. Well worth the money and stress reduction!! We are going with BM Swiss Coffee for the walls and ceiling. She also helped me with painting the fireplace color and our bedroom which will be Swiss coffee on the ceilings and BM Healing Aloe for the walls.
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