Color Me, Neutral
Posted January 18, 2011
on:We’re neutral people, afraid of color or making a choice we cannot live with….FOREVER….. I kid, I know we can change paint color, but it is just so time-consuming to do so….
Well, we finally committed to colors, rather nice neutral colors that still have some ZING, OOMPH, POW! We just want to brighten & bold it up a tiny bit. We chose the satin/eggshell finish to pizzazz it up some more, but also to be able to clean it. You know, kids and all….We’re going from drab to fab!
Our Foyer, Dining, and kitchen bar areas will be Behr’s Copper Mountain. We’ll paint the coffered ceilings as well as the dining ceiling in Behr’s Kenya. I am hoping this color will bring a richness & welcoming feeling. It’s a reddish-brown color. It is a touch more “formal”.
Also in Kenya, will be the living room, art niches, halls, breakfast, and kitchen areas. It’s a nice sandy color with an sorta yellow/cream undertone. I think this lighter & brighter color are needed because those spaces do not get much natural light. With the darker wood floors coming in, I felt we needed a color that prevented a cave or college dorm feel…..
Finally, we are going with a sage or olive-green in the office. The color we tested was Behr’s Eco Green, but I am not loving it. It looks kinda like baby poop or spit up and I don’t want to re-live those days…
For good measure here is snap of the colors together against the current wall color. I think they are relatively complementary. Nothing too bold or “out there’ for us, we don’t like to stray far from our neutral zone. I think the colors we chose just add a lil something, snazzy factor!
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