This week Home Depot was having a big rebate on Behr paint, so we hurried to choose our colors and buy what we needed. Though our house is small, it was still a little stressful to buy paint for the whole house at the same time. We knew we wanted the common areas and halls to be a crisp light gray...we like the look, and it has definitely been the standard house neutral for a while now (and we're trying to keep things pretty standard).
Choosing a gray turned out to be just as complicated as the lady in the Benjamin Moore youtube video said it would be (i.e. all the shades we thought were going to look great looked CRAZY on the walls...either light blue, purple, or brown...and almost everything was darker than we wanted).
I went online and started looking at paint colors on various blogs. Based on what looked interesting, we got Home Depot to color-match paint samples to various Benjamin Moore colors (no Benjamin Moore store anywhere near here). We liked some, we hated others, BUT...we were able to choose all of our colors and move on.
This is not going to be very illuminating (as we found out, swatches never look like the actual color on the wall), but here's what we bought for most of the house:
Maybe I just couldn't resist the name "breath of fresh air"...that's what we chose for the boys room, partly based on a blogger who had it for the backdrop of tons of bright colors that I loved. It is very fresh and sky-like on the wall.
Choosing a gray turned out to be just as complicated as the lady in the Benjamin Moore youtube video said it would be (i.e. all the shades we thought were going to look great looked CRAZY on the walls...either light blue, purple, or brown...and almost everything was darker than we wanted).
I went online and started looking at paint colors on various blogs. Based on what looked interesting, we got Home Depot to color-match paint samples to various Benjamin Moore colors (no Benjamin Moore store anywhere near here). We liked some, we hated others, BUT...we were able to choose all of our colors and move on.
This is not going to be very illuminating (as we found out, swatches never look like the actual color on the wall), but here's what we bought for most of the house:
Maybe I just couldn't resist the name "breath of fresh air"...that's what we chose for the boys room, partly based on a blogger who had it for the backdrop of tons of bright colors that I loved. It is very fresh and sky-like on the wall.
You can't even tell it's a color on the swatch, but in real life, it's great! For Juju/piano room:
Our room:
Mom did a house with gray horse in it, and it turned out good.
ReplyDeleteGrays really are hard to pick. I did my office in gray, and we had to try quite a few to get what I wanted.