Help me please! Interior paint color needed and can NOT decide.
Please help me before I end up to deep down the rabbit hole!! I need a paint color! We live in a norther facing, small house (612 sq ft) with lots of natural light. I really have NO eye for color but I do
know I hate painting so I would like to only paint once! I am drawn to Sherwin Williams Neutral Ground. The couch is only temporary.
Thank you :)
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kandrewspa
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Please help advise - interior paint colors 1895 victorian
Comments (8)Victoriajane, I love your house, it's beautiful! kec01, thank you so much for posting that link, it's amazingly helpful. Victoriajane, we have a 1898 home, not as fancy as yours, but I've been hemming and hawing on colors as well. Our small stained glass is similar in color to yours, our larger one (will put photo below)is similar in that the dominant colors are flipped. Most Victorian colors were earth-toned, but with that, I think in the 1890's it was really almost anything goes, so it gives you a bit more licence to do what you'd really like. I would suggest sitting with paint swatches right by the window and pick 4 that you really love that go with each other. I second slateberry's drabby color suggestions and would put those with the right "feel" of light- read lucy's warm- cool suggestion, next to the appropriate windows. Then would maybe "pop" the dining room and/or parlor with brighter jewel tones. For the wall around our larger stained glass in the hall, I wanted a warm neutral (yellow-brown) to pick up the yellow light that comes through the window, also to make the cooler blue and cooler pink to pop. Here's what I have (forgive the quick paint job, I am indecisive with paint and need to live with it a bit before committing): the paint color is SW stonebriar (which is close to BM Shelburne Buff, also close but yellower is Chestertown Buff): In our livingroom, I wanted something deeper but classic and neutral enough to go with my red velvet and gold brocade victorian furniture. I think I'm going with SW Bunglehouse Grey- it's a arts and crafts color, but since that's an offshoot of Victorian, I'm not too concerned. That's close to BM Kingsport Grey and BM Nantucket Grey. It's actually not at all grey, despite the photos: Again, please forgive the lousy paint job, it's not the way it will look! Let us know what you choose, I'm still totally undecided about the dining room and would love to hear what direction you went in!...See Moreplease help me choose a paint color for my kitchen, please!!!!
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elcieg
last yearJennifer Erickson
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last yearlast modified: last yearI have a client in Washington State. I've been working with her for about 7 years. Such a beautiful area...these are recommendations from B.M. for off-whites, north light.
But if you would like some color, I love, love, B.M. Excalibur Gray. Notice the plant stand and how wonderfully it will work with the ceiling, floor, and sofa, and the tones of your sunsets.
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PRONorwood Architects
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last yearThis is my go to for a real neutral I cut it 25% for most of my clients it works with everything I take a lead from nature . IMO beige , tan and even gray are rarely real neutrals .
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