Monday, December 11, 2006

picking paint colours

After long debate and too many hours spent with the Benjamin Moore Personal Colour Viewer, we just might have our colours!

This is the floorplan, just for reference. Windows are that way: -->

condo floorplan

The bedroom:
bedroom colours

We were originally going to paint the accent wall a deep red, but I've been talking to people and hearing horror stories of red kitchens that took three gallons and EIGHT coats of paint just to convince it not to be a splotchy fuchia. We're going to put the bed on the wall with the window, so that wall and the wall facing it will be 'oxford gray', and the others will be 'seaspray'. Right now I feel like the 'oxford gray' might be too light, but everyone tells me that paint looks a lot darker once it's on the wall.

The living/dining room:
living room colours

We have blue furniture and we won't be having a blue trim, but I wanted to see how the blue would affect the browns. This room is a long L-shape, with the window (balcony) at one end of the L, so there's not any direct light in parts of the room. We wanted something light but not quite white so that it wasn't boring but it still reflected light around. I also want some accent walls, so that will be the 'ginger root' brown.

The office/spare bedroom:
office/spare bedroom colours

The green will be going on the walls directly around the bed (the room is sort of a weird shape), while the 'seaspray' colour will go everywhere else.

We still have NO IDEA for the kitchen, and the bathroom will have to wait, because we're going to tear a bunch of stuff out of there eventually anyways.

4 Comments:

Blogger Jo said...

oooh! pretty! so very zen.

11/12/06 11:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the kitchen shall be pink --||--

12/12/06 2:41 PM  
Anonymous Amy said...

I have a deep red accent wall in my house and it only took 2 coats without primer. So if red is what you really want go for it! I also used the cheap walmart dutchboy paint. So it's not like I had to pay $100 a gallon to get that to happen. I love the colors you chose!

15/12/06 12:09 PM  
Blogger Lindsey said...

where did you find those sleigh beds??? i've looked everywhere for something similar! please let me know at georgiamigs@yahoo.com! thank you thank you thank you!

15/9/07 9:18 PM  

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