The previous owners of this house had a consistent color scheme. The rooms weren’t all the same color, but they blended well. Everything had a yellow or brown undertone to it.
I don’t really like any of the colors, though. I called the kitchen “salmon poo”.
The staircase is “mustard dirt”.
The master bedroom is a livable green, but still with a brown undertone that ties in with the other colors.
It even blended well with the original “old, crushed daffodil” color in the hall and living room.
All of the paint colors (that I didn’t like) blended in well with each other. Except two of the rooms. I lovingly call them the “punch in your face blue” room;
and the “circus” room.
They were the previous kid’s bedrooms. I’m guessing the kids picked them out. The fact that all the house’s colors flowed so well just made those two rooms more jarring. I want to avoid that.
I still want to have a nice, coherent whole-house color scheme. Just not based around dirty yellow. (Yellow is my least favorite color, much less a dirty version of it.)
I like the gray we have in the hallway & living room,
and I like the blue in our office and second floor.
We’ll be using medium-dark hardwood floors throughout the house… but I still want to nail down the house color scheme before I start painting rooms all willy-nilly 🙂
Design-seeds is an blog that posts color samples pulled from photographs. Here are some of my favorites:
I’ve also found inspirations in photos,
and one of my favorite paintings; Almond Branches in Bloom by Van Gogh.
There are several websites that will let you make a palate from your own photo. I like Sherwin Williams’ Chip It!
Obviously I’m a fan of the blue-grey spectrum. I also really want to use green. I’ve been using Sherwin-Williams’ site to pick and save colors.
Favorite Paint Colors Blog is an excellent resource to see paint colors in action.
So far I’ve thinking something like this:
The gray and three paint colors on top of it would be for walls. Not necessarily that dark of shade, but one off the same paint chip. The two little colors to the side would be for accent stuff. Curtains, linens, rugs, etc. would be any of these colors.
I’ll continue to fiddle with it… Those are all Sherwin Williams colors, so they aren’t perfect. Teal Stencil is close to the blue we currently use, but we used Covington Gray (Benjamin Moore) in the living room. Cloudburst is okay, but I wouldn’t like the green on a wall, lol. Oh well, I have time, and it’s getting there 🙂
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