This is the color we chose for the baby's room, a nice soft yellow. It looks a little lighter here than it does in person, it's a shade more yellow-y.
The colors below are the samples we chose for the office...(L) Hemlock, (R), Nantucket Fog. Both are Benjamin Moore. In person the Hemlock looks a little too dark. I also included of the office as it is now....we have a decorating question. See the cute little wallpaper border? Not really us or good for a grown up office so that's coming off. It's bordered by 2 white wood borders, we're debating what to do. M likes the idea of painting a darker color where the wall is currently blue, paint white in between the wood borders where the wall paper is now and then paint a lighter blue in the same family as whatever we choose for the lower section to put on the part that's white. I'm unsure about the stripe and am more in favor of removing one of the wood borders and just doing two colors, leaving out the white stripe but this would obviously add some work with the removal, sanding and patching of the wall where the chair rail was removed. Anyone have any opinions? Is a stripe weird? Also, we're taking out this carpet too, replacing with a natural stain oak/ash floor.
To not have to bother with the border removal, I would do the darker color on the bottom and then between the moldings either do white and sponge with the darker color to transition to the lighter or use the lighter and back sponge the darker in that area again transitioning from one color to the other. All from a lady with totally white walls!!!
ReplyDeleteI like the chair rail too. I have picture rails at the top in my house, very 1950's but we left them there and painted slightly different colours in each part. Taking them out and covering up the scar in the wall is quite alot of work. It's difficult to decide though so I know how you feel.
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