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Posted by rosewest (My Page) on Fri, Feb 3, 12 at 11:00
| New to this forum---I'm fascinated with your paint color discussions and know you will have opinions that can help me. So: DH and I are building a new home---builder has a "Design Center" where "Personal Choices" are made. Went there last week---had 3 hours to make literally a hundred design decisions, including upgrades and $ to be spent. Near the end, I was honestly feeling sick and confused---some folks spend weeks deciding on just one paint color! And of course now, I'm second guessing and changing my mind and having regrets. Not too late to make changes though, so here we go with the first one. Sorry--I don't have photos but here goes: Home is going to be something like "NW Lodge" style---warm colors, more rustic-type, decor oil rubbed bronze lighting and hardware, Santa Cecilia granite in kitchen, Maple Sedona Merillat cabinets. Get to choose one color paint for entire house. Chose SW Latte. Question is--what color trim and interior doors? We chose SW Softer Tan. Too dark for this style? Would SW Divine White be too light and too formal for this type of house? I'm anticipating your responses!! |
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RE: Newby needs help choosing trim color
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| Hi Rosewest! Your new homse sounds like it will be wonderful, cozy and full of character. I looked up all of your finished and I don't think there is anything wrong with the harmony of what you chosen. My personal preference is to have the trim be more "contrasty", and for that reason i would have gone SW Divine White for the trim. On my monitor SW Divine White reads soft and creamy which would be a wonderful contrast to what you have chosen but still be a warm color to compliment the bronze and SW latte. Just curious what the designer said about the choice of SW Softer tan for the trim? The good thing is that paint is one of the easier things to change, so if for some reason you don't end up liking what you have chosen you can change it. Try not to stress too much...have fun with your project! |
RE: Newby needs help choosing trim color
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| I'm a person who prefers that the trim is in the same tone but lighter than the walls. |
RE: Newby needs help choosing trim color--Maybe SW Kilim Beige?
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| The designer was very helpful in guiding me and I loved most of her suggestions. However, the trim color selection was almost dead-last after 3 hours of making so many decisions and I was tired and overwhelmed and we were actually in a bit of a hurry to wind things up. I just made my trim paint color selection quickly from about 20 choices and handed it to her. She didn't comment and just said OK and wrote it down, which is probably why it's one of the selections I am most unsure about. The last few decisions were kind of rushed and I have questions about almost all of the last ones we did. But the trim color is kind of a big one, since all of the interior doors and the stairway spindles as well as the baseboards, etc. will be in that color. Based on recommendatons here, I'm thinking I prefer SW Kilim Beige, which is two colors lighter on the same paint sample strip as the SW Latte, or the Divine White, which is 3 shades lighter on the same strip. Softer Tan might be a little greener and not as warm. What do you all think? |
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| You might consider calling back the designer and asking her opinion on the trim colo. She has the most context about all of your other materials. I would go Divine White, but, that's just me. My house is full of off-white creamy trim and I love that contrast look. |
RE: Newby needs help choosing trim color
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| My DD has a prairie style home and warm exterior colors--definitely earthy. They chose a warm color for the interior walls of most of the home that sounds similar to Latte. Since their windows are white, they decided to go with white trim, and it looks really great. They have white interior doors and very dark wood floors, so the contrast of the trim sets the floor off nicely. They used a dark stained wood stair rail rather than white, but they has no spindles. |
RE: Newby needs help choosing trim color
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| Aha! Thanks sujafr! The vinyl windows are almond and I think I may try to match the trim closely to that...We have white in the house we're in now and DH wants something darker next time so that may work for us. I will call the designer, andreadeg, and ask her opinion on the trim colors. You're right about her having the whole context and bigger picture and she made very good recommendations on everything else. She did steer me away from SW Macadamia to the SW Latte, saying the Macadamia would be too green and the Latte warmer. I think she'll have an opinion about the Softer Tan as well. |
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