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Home : Q&A : Painting : Favorite paint colors
| Name:
JH
Title of Question:
Favorite paint colors |
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Question: Searching for a good color? Here's my favorites. They are all Benjamin Moore because it's a local store for me and my husband likes the paint.
Oriental Silk: Medium range color, dull not bright yellow. Looks great with traditional furnishings and lots of fabrics especially those that have some yellow or gold.
Creme Fraiche: Soft pale yellow, pretty in a kitchen.
Tree Moss: Medium range green. I have it in my kitchen with off white glazed cabinets and I used a green and white toile fabric for curtains. Blue and white china accents actually look very pretty with this green.
Sweet bluette: Soft lighter blue. Good for bedroom or bathroom. Two other pretty blues are white satin and jet stream.
Golden straw: at 1/2 strength. Deeper than oriental silk and a little brighter.
Ivory Tusk: Nice off white with yellow tinge.
Shaker Beige at 1/2 strength: A nice "sand" color. It was too dark for my room at full color value so we had a gallon mixed at 1/2 formula.
Raspberry Truffle: A deep red with that touch of raspberry. Looks pretty with lots of white furniture in a girls bedroom with red and white bedding. Have also seen it in a kitchen with off white cabinets.
I know how many quarts we can buy looking for the right color, so I thought I'd share my favorites hoping they'll save someone some trouble. Please post a reply if you try any of these and let me know how you like them.
Good Luck with your decorating!
Signed, Decorating fanatic! |
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Name:
JH
| Date: October 8, 2007, 9:50 am
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| Answer:
My son is painting his new house and just tried a color called silver sage in the guest room. Have to add it to my list of favorites. Has a very spa like , calm quality to it. |
| Name:
sisi
| Date: February 27, 2008, 4:17 pm
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| Answer:
thank you it appears you have great taste and understand how hard colors are to translate from Magazine pictures to reality |
| Name:
mm
| Date: March 5, 2008, 2:28 pm
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