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Weezingreens
Seward, AK
(Zone 3b)
 January 10, 2006
2:31 PM Post #1966660
| I live in a log house that has very few interior walls. There are two enclosed bathrooms and a closet. You wouldn't think painting is an issue, and it really isn't, but it's been 12 years since we've painted those few walls. I think it's time to spruce them up.
When we painted the interior walls, we used a simple eggshell white. We felt it was a nice contrast to the darker logs of the exterior walls. The color has served us well, but I'm really thinking about trying something just a tad different. I don't want the walls dark or too similar to the wood in our home. I just need a bit of feedback from someone a little more adventurous than myself when it comes to walls! Any ideas?
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Sarahskeeper
Brockton, MA
(Zone 6a)
January 10, 2006
3:28 PM Post #1967177
| Sage Green is very popular now, check out a light shade of that. Something 'earthy' not pure green.
Should go nicely with all the natural wood.
Andy P
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Weezingreens
Seward, AK
(Zone 3b)
January 10, 2006
4:05 PM Post #1967259
| I love sage green! Yes, it would have to be a pale shade. It's definitely a possibility. Most all the colors I prefer are of an earthy nature. Even the cool colors please me most when they are slightly dulled. It is as if they were watercolors mixed with a brush that was not properly rinsed between colors! |
Terry
Murfreesboro, TN
(Zone 7a)
 January 10, 2006
4:13 PM Post #1967293
| I was going to say a sagey green too - it's one of my favorite colors.
We used WalMart paint (don't anybody laugh!) and we used "dried grass" (soft, sagey) in the den, and "tea green" (a tad bit more spring-like) in DD's room.
I love both colors and would recommend both. If you can get to a WM, you can probably find the paint chips with those names on them. |
Weezingreens
Seward, AK
(Zone 3b)
January 10, 2006
4:52 PM Post #1967367
| Good suggestions, Terry. Yes, we have a Walmart just 120 miles down the street from us. LOL! We get to Anchorage about twice a year, and Walmart is always one of our stops. In fact, I think we may have bought paint there before. |
pins2006
Decatur, GA
(Zone 7a)
 January 13, 2006
5:04 PM Post #1974190
| We painted our bedroom a sage green, and just love it. We tried three different shades and found that, with our light, the one without very much yellow in it worked much better. Every room is different, so I always like to buy 2-3 little quart sizes first and paint a 3x3 area in all the colors. After a couple of days, you know which one is right. |
Sarahskeeper
Brockton, MA
(Zone 6a)
January 13, 2006
5:14 PM Post #1974211
| Pins, Good idea.
When you think of the time, effort and cost of doing a room, the $10 per 'test' quart is cheap insurance.
Andy P |
Weezingreens
Seward, AK
(Zone 3b)
January 14, 2006
2:38 AM Post #1975199
| Yes, good idea. I really don't like to pick out paint in the store. They have fluorescent lights, so I have to walk outdoors with the samples to get a true idea of the colors. |
1gardengram
Fayetteville, NC
(Zone 8a)
January 15, 2006
7:49 AM Post #1977859
| You can also just tape or tack up a bunch of the paint chips (free) on the actual walls and then live with them for a few days. One by one they will eliminate themselves as the light changes during the day. I'm too cheap to buy a bunch of small cans (LOL), so did it this way and it worked out well. Picking the colors in the store is too hard. Even if you carry in a piece of fabric or a pillow or whatever. Best thing to do is get the color out of the store and then choose. Picking colors is really an adventure, but when you get it right it's so worth it. |
Weezingreens
Seward, AK
(Zone 3b)
January 16, 2006
10:52 PM Post #1982123
| Good point. I'm not likely to buy quarts of paint either, and the colors do look different outside the store, or even within the lighting of the rooms one paints. |
terryr
Bureau County, IL
(Zone 5a)
January 19, 2006
11:08 PM Post #1988077
| All those little paint cards are free. You can take as many as you like. We have our home done in deep rich historical colors. Our bedroom is a deep sage green. I think the deeper colors help make the wood pop. We live a house built in 1896, so it has lots of wood and pocket doors in it. Below is a picture of my dining room. It's only paint :) if you don't like it, just repaint. Benjamore Moore has a neat little thing that lets you choose colors and "paint" a room. Gold is nice also...my dr is Richmond Gold. Two others that I like and have used are Chestertown Buff and Dorset Gold. Shelbourn Buff is another lighter color with just a bit of gold in it. The colors I've mentioned are all BM, but anybody but any store can mix them.
[HYPERLINK@www.benjaminmoore.com]
With so little wall space to actually paint, you can afford to paint and repaint and...lol...
Terry
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Weezingreens
Seward, AK
(Zone 3b)
January 21, 2006
2:55 AM Post #1990345
| Thanks, Terry. I certainly can be more adventurous with my colors. I think a gallon would do them all! |
Ivy1
Mystic, CT
(Zone 6b)
February 13, 2006
11:45 AM Post #2042327
| Well, I guess I am not very original because I was going to suggest a light moss green! |
Weezingreens
Seward, AK
(Zone 3b)
February 13, 2006
3:18 PM Post #2042657
| I'm very fond of green, but have hesitated using it because I get carried away with tints. I have so few paintable walls here that I could afford to repaint if it isn't a good color. I just hate to moved everything out of the way and tarp it off more than once! |
Ivy1
Mystic, CT
(Zone 6b)
February 13, 2006
4:01 PM Post #2042731
| I can relate to that, having accidently painted my living room pink(!). I have now lived with it for 4 years because I didn't want to do it over again. DH doesn't want to spring for the paint either. (I think he is making me pay for having done it in the first place.) I was trying for a warm white with a pink undertone. I wanted a sort of pink and french blue look - like Monet's house. It didn't work.
There are a lot of tints in the white paints they make now. Maybe that would work better for you than it did for me! |
Weezingreens
Seward, AK
(Zone 3b)
February 13, 2006
4:18 PM Post #2042770
| Yes, it looks so different in the can than it does on the wall! After a few bad choices, I've stuck to offwhite or eggshell, but I'm ready for a change. |
pins2006
Decatur, GA
(Zone 7a)
February 14, 2006
7:20 AM Post #2044005
| Ivy, my dh painted his study a light pink on purpose! It looks great, too. Don't think of it as pink, think of it as a pastel red (like the pastel blues and pastels greens). :-) |
Weezingreens
Seward, AK
(Zone 3b)
February 14, 2006
12:13 PM Post #2044470
| Well, I guess red actually is pastel red! We've got so much wood in this house, that it is nice to have some contrasting painted walls. Since we have few interior walls, I could use most any color. If you added up all the walls that I paint, it is barely 300 SF. |
plantaholic2
N Middlesex County, MA
(Zone 5a)
February 15, 2006
7:47 PM Post #2047406
| instead of buying quarts to try out, some paint manufacturers now sell small 2-3 oz. jars of colors for a few bucks. I've seen Benjamin Moore, California Paints (maybe regional) and Tru Value store brand. I find the small paper chips are quite misleading. I think the cards make them look darker than they really appear on the wall. I wonder if you could even buy the sample jars online????
Its also nice to do a color theme throughout the house, for example, a Tuscany theme of sage green, cinnamon/paprika and taupe/beige throughout several rooms. where you bring the 3 colors into each room but in different ways ... paint or furniture or accessories or an accent wall Creates nice flow and cohesiveness. |
Weezingreens
Seward, AK
(Zone 3b)
February 16, 2006
6:25 PM Post #2049595
| Carrying color themes from room to room creatively sounds like a wonderful idea. Someday, when and if we have a theme, I'd like to do it that way. I've always believed in repeating color to tie things together, perhaps in different shades or tints, but of the same family.
Our house is so 'woody' that my paint has to look good with light spruce or pine.. the warm colors. From the mail floor, the only painted walls you can see is the little bathroom, and that's not much. Once upstairs, you can see the other bathroom and a closet. I think the upstairs walls should be the same, but the interior bathroom wall could be different, but in the same family of color. I suppose the same applies downstairs.
There is so little painted wall space that it is tempting to do something textured or of darker tint, but all this wood is a texture and hue unto itself. |
Ivy1
Mystic, CT
(Zone 6b)
February 17, 2006
3:52 PM Post #2051720
| I am bringing mostly yellow and green into the living room, with yellow walls (when I repaint). There are hints of light red in my couch, so I have brought in a few touches here and there. Then I will either do the kitchen in green, periwinkle or creamy yellow. The accents in my kitchen are periwinkle blue.
The basement has to be aqua blue due to a carpet we are unable to remove right now, but I am tempted to do a greenish aqua that I saw in Country Curtains catalog that coordinates with the same yellow as the living room.
The bedroom will be cream, blue and red, because those are the colors of all the leftover furniture and rugs relatives have given to us that get shoved up there.
My dream is to have at least one color the same in each of the rooms, so I can switch the furniture and artwork when I get sick of a room; and so the rooms coordinate with each other when looking through. |
CINDERMOM
Bandon, OR
(Zone 9a)
February 28, 2006
7:39 PM Post #2078036
| True Value has a new web site that may help you a lot with color decisions. It's [HYPERLINK@www.truevaluepaint.com] and you can even order a disc from them that lets you load pictures of your home and "virtual paint" it to try out color combinations. The site also has a list of faux finish instructions that really can make faux fun. |
PeggieK
Claremore, OK
(Zone 6a)
April 3, 2006
12:19 AM Post #2159353
| Weezin, have you seen the wallpapers that look like rock ? I think that would look good with a rustic wood decor. Some of them look very realistic, and you'll get about 50 sq. ft. to a double roll. Wouldn't cost much more than painting. You can look them up online, and a lot of the companies will send you samples. We did it in our bedroom and it was awesome. |
Cambium
Tamarac, FL
(Zone 10a)
June 2, 2006
6:13 PM Post #2345171
| My sister did a wall in her house from the non-printed sides of paper grocery bags. She'd tear out odd shapes then overlap them using wallpaper paste. Lightly crinkling them gave nice natural ragged lines in the paper. After she was done she then went over the wall with a sealant. It looks like hides & very rustic. I'd not suggest a whole room done but one has quite an impact. I don't have pics of it but wish I did.
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ericalynne
Windham, NY
(Zone 4b)
June 9, 2006
10:26 AM Post #2370284
| i love color!!! my living room is sage green, dining room-barn red, bedroom- cornflower blue, son's room faux painted red sandstone complete with cracks, bathroom- chocolate, hallway lilac and kitchen- soft yellow venetian plaster look. i just paint all of my woodwork the same color through the whole house and it keeps the rooms related. to me, a white/beige wall is one that hasn't been painted yet. |
