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I love a Behr color called "Light Lichen" - it's a beautiful earthy green but it is vibrant. (They have to look this one up on the computer - I've been using it for years).For the white with a hint of pink, there is an Olympic paint color called Percale. I honestly thought it was barely off-white. It took me a year to realize it was essentially pink.
I'm going to be using a light (not too pale) aqua, more to the green than blue side, in most areas of our new house. I'm in love with the ocean and this color is so calming to me. Plus we have a lot of limited edition prints from Hawaii artists that depict the ocean. It's Behr, but I don't remember the name and my samples are packed. It will be at least in the living area, halls and sunroom. I'm also going to try and find a wallpaper with that color for the two bathrooms. Not sure about the kitchen yet, maybe same color or a slight different but still coordinating wallpaper.
Behr - Restful 400F-4. It's a light sage color. It would work in a living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom. Very soothing color.
I looks like this. My living room doesn't look this light because I don't have the lights on very often and my blinds are usually closed.
That looks very nice and soothing. We are in the TN mountains so I want to stay in the light browns, greens, or maybe a very pale yellow. We have brownish kitchen cabinets(Lowe's Napa) and a cherry fireplace and cherry livingroom furniture with brown leather. We need a nice light, soothing, contrast.
I used Sherwin Williams Chopstick, it has a yellow hue but it more on the beige side. Very neutral but yet with the right accessories can really pop. I lived in the woods surrounded by about 150 trees, no joke really, and it was really light and made the room very bright.
Oh and we just painted my son's room San Antonio Sage, it is not light like a light green but still very light and bright, also Sherwin Williams. Get it in Matte, looks much better than semi gloss.
We used Behr (Belvedere Cream) in the main living areas of the house. It's a neutral light ivory-cream that warms up the room without competing with other colors but yet stands out nicely against white trim.
The kitchen and dining rooms we painted a shade similar to the popular misty greenish-grey shades seen in current trends. We did Behr (Contemplation) for the kitchen and a deeper complement to it (Pinedale Shores) in the dining room. Our accent shades are a mix of ivory, golds, warm, muted reds and deep browns.
I like a white just barely tinged with a rose hint. Trim is either stained or painted white white semi gloss. The resulting room glows like a rosy twilight without anyone knowing why. People look good in a room reflecting a slight rose instead of the sallow colors that beige and yellows reflect. The room seems larger and brighter. I always get complements on this color.
I got the idea on one of those evenings when the whole world just glowed with a little rose tint instead of the usual yellow twilight.
I just found this forum -- good idea to whoever started it.
I like this idea of white tinted with rose; especially like the way this poster "found" this idea -- from the colors at twilight. Yellows are nice and cheerful, but I read that you need to pick a really cheery yellow (not necessarily real bright), otherwise, certain yellows can make people depressed. Maybe they mean gold. I can't handle gold cause that's all my mother used when I was growing up - I think it's an "old lady" color. My favorite all-round color is light to medium blue, but not in rooms that don't get any sun. I just painted my bedroom blue, and I'm not sure I like it, although I've had other bedrooms painted blue and loved them. Maybe it's just this room in this house. It is off a covered patio, so gets no direct sun -- that's probably my problem.
About whites -- I can't live with off-whites and beige -- I connect them with apartments. They always look depressing and dingy to me. This business about "it goes with everything" is a silly argument for using them. Everything I can think of goes with light blue, for instance. I think it's more the shade you use more than the base color itself. I would not want a room done in parakeet blue, nor one done in a "Mary Kay" pink -- no way. But the rosy tint to the white in the post referenced above would be beautiful. Thanks for the inspiration!
The silver/gray tones are currently replacing the previously popular beiges in new home interiors.
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