Terminalcoffee discussion

Hague Blue by Farrow and Ball.



Drawing Room Blue, Farrow and Ball.



More Drawing Room Blue.



Not sure what this is:

I love all three. Notice the difference that the trim makes to the color in two and three. I would not like white trim as well with the first blue.

Farrow and Ball Black Blue.

This is gray but I am in love with it.

Farrow and Ball Down Pipe.

Downpipe by Farrow and Ball.

I wouldn't do dark gray. I'd stick with dark blue. Just a personal preference. One of my neighbors has a dark gray accent wall in her living room, I think the rest of the walls are white or something, and I've never liked it. Maybe she painted the wrong wall though.

From left to right: Benjamin Moore - Downpour Blue, Behr - Nightshade #740f-7 and Benjamin Moore - Hale Navy.

In those photos I like the Hale Navy and Nightshade best. I love Benjamin Moore for some reason. Downpour Blue is kind of intriguing but a little too royal.

Hale would be my choice from that group.

Huh. It appears we were thinking alike on the gray. I can't go quite that dark of a gray. It would swallow my house. I wish I could, though. I did as dark of a gray as I could in my kitchen. It is light by comparison to Downpipe.

Here is Hale Navy with no natural light:

Hmm. I still really like it. It does not read as nice of a blue without the natural light, though.

I wish people would stop framing intaglios.

Not sure what color this is. Credit added by source's code.

It almost looks like one of those "suede" paints. I don't care for it.

Lobstergirl wrote: "One of my neighbors has a dark gray accent wall in her living room, I think the rest of the walls are white or some..."

I don't like accent walls. Nope, I don't.

Sure, there's one in our living room, but only because I've been too lazy to pick out new color and paint the room.

I agree. It doesn't feel complete to me.

Susan wrote: "It almost looks like one of those "suede" paints. I don't care for it."

To me it looks like the cabinets are a different color than the sueded walls. I don't like textured effects either.

Phil wrote: "Sure, there's one in our living room, but only because I've been too lazy to pick out new color and paint the room. "

Just do it.

Yes, it does look like two different finishes from walls to cabinets. Not a fan of all that going on, either.

Weird, from a professional design group you would expect them to match. Like, be the same color. They're just different enough that they draw attention to themselves.

I'm loving these dark blues! I've wanted to paint my walls red for ages, but now navy is seeming like a good option too...

Sometimes, a professional design group can be overrated.

I fantasized for a long time about a red dining room. A really bold red, no pink in it at all, maybe a bright tomato. Now the thought of moving my enormous bookcases and all the books is too horrendous.

I once thought I needed a red kitchen in my life. I wanted it to be that kind of a rich red, too. Then we bought our house and the kitchen walls were painted half red and half yellow by the previous owners. I could not stop thinking of Ronald McDonald every time I looked at it. It was the first room to be painted within the first weeks of moving in.

I had a paint disaster in my living room. It looked like the inside of an Olive Garden. I couldn't live with it so I just had the movers leave all the living room furniture in the middle of the room. Then it took me several months to get the paint job done, ha ha. But it was so worth it.

Ha!

I would have done the same thing.

Too much?

Just a bit.

But the finish was so thought out in how it would bounce the blue onto all the rest of the blue. Then there are those lights.

Is that the bedroom of a woman, a gay man, or a couple?

Or the sex room for some swingers?

One can only guess.

The collection room for a sperm donation bank?

The interview room for a movie?

The nap room for a hospital sleep study?

A room in Graceland?

Way too reserved for that.

The day before I had my last colonoscopy, I was thinking about painting my kitchen.It came to me during pre-op that the perfect color would be a very pale cantaloupe. I bought the paint the next day and am now questioning my judgment (which is, under the circumstances, reasonable). Any thoughts on pale cantaloupe as a kitchen color?

Well, it's going to look like this:



Or this:

If it were a bedroom, this:

I hope you're at least painting squares of color on the wall to see what it looks like in different light.

That's not the color. It's very pale cantaloupe. What we have here is rotten cantaloupe! Lighten it by 7 shades.

So something more along these lines?

Or this?

My parents' dining room is about the color in message 37 and I love it.

41-42 just look white and beige to me.

One thing I would say for a kitchen is stay away from anything with a pink undertone. Actually I would say that for most rooms, but especially a kitchen.

Lobstergirl wrote: "41-42 just look white and beige to me."

Hey, Scout said 7 shades lighter.

True.

Since she's already bought the paint, maybe she can post a paint chip.

::waits::

While we wait let's admire the glowing walls of the Grand Palace Hotel dining room, Riga, Latvia.

Whoa.