BM Deep Caviar or Plum Martini...or suggestions(pics)
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Comments (50)The painting is done. We went with SW Rain. It was the closest to that blueish-tealish-silver color (last image in this thread). The ceiling is Topsail which is the lightest color on the strip. Looks wonderful! Unfortunately (ha ha) she wants to put all her stuff back in (all sorts of odds and ends- posters, a bulletin board with a million scraps of paper on it that are all important, a few stuffed animals, random photos, makeup, tropys from when she was little, a Christmas wreath with sentimental meaning, etc.) I could make it look so cute with the right accessories, but she's unwilling to part with all this stuff. Oh yea, there are cords going everywhere from her chargers, Ihome, and other electronics. So I guess it won't be a designer room!...See MoreBM baby turtle with purples and blues or reds?
Comments (26)These are photos of my last house on base. The green is "Key Lime Pie," a Dutch Boy paint, I think. I love the color and I thought my purple/plum loveseat looked great with it. I may use the same Key Lime Pie in the new house living room; I'll decided for sure once I pick the new furniture. The plum loveseat is now being slipcovered and will live on the "Manly Man's Four Season Porch." He has total creative control out there, so it will probably be slipcovered in camo (which would look great with Baby Turtle!) My base house was not elegant (nor is my new/old house) but I love being able to use more colors and add or delete trim and elements as my whims dictate. I was fortunate the Housing Office allowed me to paint; the house was schduled for demolition so they relaxed the "No Painting" rule. Here's the dining area with Key Lime Pie walls. This photo shows more "blue" than is in the paint color. It's a lovely greyed, sage green. A vase full of wild lilacs with a Key Lime Pie background. The bright morning light and my little point and shoot camera didn't do anything for the colors here, but it's the best photo I have. The plum sofa is deeper, and the walls do not have a blue or yellow cast....See MoreRed samples for bathroom (pic heavy)
Comments (75)Southernfrenchie - Thank you! Very pretty space and those curtains look wonderful with that paint! I finally went to Lowes yesterday and grabbed paint cards of: LA Russet 6 LA Summer Pudding Waverly Tomato Red Waverly Cinnabar Eddie Bauer Crimson Glidden Terra Cotta Rose. I grabbed a few actual samples from comparing my BM paint cards and going by what I knew of the colors. Ha, when I got home I realized I grabbed such similar colors it's not even funny. Waverly Tomato Red looks like BM Burnt Peanut Red and similar to Raspberry Truffle. Glidden Terra Cotta Rose looks like the color name and is similar to BM Tucson Red. The color would work but it's not how I'm picturing the room. LA Russet 6 is a nice color. Similar to Currant Red. The other names above, the cards look very similar to ones I already have. I'm finally at my point of walking away for now. In the end I'll probably end up going with MR or CR. And just for giggles.. MR top, LA Russet 6 middle, CR bottom....See MoreIs it weird to paint my home office a dusty plum color?
Comments (20)I am using several purples in our house. I am in the midst of painting most of our rooms so don't have completed pix yet, but we have a very deep dark purple for den and dining room walls (open plan, 2 walls total). It is Purple rain by BM and is a deep velvet purple. It looks amazing paired with bright white trim and I can't wait to see the white Roman shade installed there with it (and eventually see it when the floors get refinished darker and the furniture moves back in). I did a color like patty_cake's plum dandy for our bedroom ceiling (am not at home with the color names handy) and will stencil on the east and west walls of our bedroom in it over a pale gray and also use it inside our bedroom closet. The only one I am not so certain about it our bedroom ceiling. I was trying to break out of the box and do a colored ceiling (inspired by GWers), but I will have to see how I feel about it after the stencil is up and the room is put together. I may have gone too far with that one and may either go lighter, much darker, go white or add a silver metallic glaze to tone it down. It is pretty bold on our vaulted ceiling as it is. We have a light-medium lavender in our kitchen and a very pale lavender in our master bath (mirage white with a hint of the ceiling color added in to make sure the color tone worked). I used more of the bedroom ceiling color mixed with white ceiling paint for inside our coat closet as well. That makes 4 different shades (although our sons' room also has 2 dark bright purple walls with 2 less dark bright green ones, so we really have 5 purples, lol). Our living room, laundry room and hallway will have a perky green color (wales green at 75%). I didn't start out with a plan to paint so much purple, but they came out so nice I just kept going. I live with 2 boys and my dh and it is not terribly girly because none of our furniture or accessories will be purple. We are using a lot of white, gray, black and green with it. We have a very open plan so whatever color we chose would have to flow through several rooms. Reading over this post, it sounds funny, but IRL, it works nicely. I'll be posting as soon as we are further along and can get rid of all the drop cloths, cans of paint and construction debris all over and when we can move our stuff back up out of the bsmt and make it look less empty. I also have to get the stickers off the windows, install WTs and basically decorate from scratch....See Moresuedonim75
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