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| Hi all,
I'm in the process of getting my whole house repainted. My painter uses Benjamin Moore. At this point I have spent $200 is paint samples and am beyond frustrated. I have early 1900s pine floors that are a rich caramel/organgey wood color that I am basing my color choices on. There is not much natural light in the house (Baltimore rowhouse) so I was hoping for lighter warm colors in the caramel family. Attempt #1:
Attempt #2:
The first floor goes from an entry way (which I was hoping would be on the darker end of the swatch strip) to a sitting room (~middle of the swatch strip) to the hallway (lighter end of the swatch strip). Any advise would be great. THANK YOU! |
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| I FEEL for you!!! I was in the same boat on my master bath. I went with BM NATURAL CREAM and love it. Went taupy neutral on me - I just loved it. But light of course depends so much.....Maybe check that out? |
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- Posted by flatcoat2004 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 1, 08 at 15:56
| Have you thought about the BM Aura line ? I was very happy with them. I used Honeymoon, Safari and Subtle from the yellows, and Hush in my bedroom, which is a really lovely non-yellow tan. Honeymoon Safari And Hush ... |
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| We have Behr "Autumn Glow" in our powder room. I love it. Sort of apricoty. I'm thinking about using this color in the kitchen too, though I may colormatch it in BM since I'm enamoured with Aura paint now. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Color Match of Behn Autum Glow
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| Dear flatcoat2004, Beautiful color choices! Just what I was looking for. So the second picture, is that Subtle or is that Honeymoon in a different light setting? Thanks again, |
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- Posted by flatcoat2004 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 1, 08 at 16:25
| The first two pictures are both Honeymoon, maybe they were taken at different times of day ? Honeymoon is my favourite of all the colours I picked, it is really very beautiful even on my horrible walls. Subtle is a paler version of Safari (with Jicama in between), unfortunately I don't have a good photo of Subtle. |
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- Posted by denali_2007 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 1, 08 at 16:27
| Flatcoat Glad to see Honeymoon I am going to paint my dining room Honeymoon with a Tumeric ceiling.Just love the Aura colors. I have Thicket in my MBR and MBR |
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- Posted by superchick (My Page) on Tue, Apr 1, 08 at 20:43
| I totally feel your pain. I had my heart set on SW Blonde, until I put it up and saw that it actually looked like a gross flesh colored crayon! ICK. After my $200 in samples, I found SW Believeable Buff, which we colormatched in BM paint. It looks alot like Flatcoat's second pic. A warm, golden beige. Goes great with my wood, which sounds similar in color to yours. Good luck! |
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- Posted by roguevalley (My Page) on Tue, Apr 1, 08 at 21:06
| Splitting the difference, the colors 197-199 (Americas Heartland, Cornsilk, and Barley) are on the strip between the #183 and 212 strip. Could any of those work? |
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