Mar. 15, 2008 - Pottery Barn Paint Colors - Benjamin Moore
I often recommend that people check out Pottery Barn paint colors when trying to decide on a paint color when getting their home ready for market. Plain white or off-white is often just too boring, and in a market with lots of other homes on market, sometimes you want to stand out a bit.
I am writing this post today for a man Kim and I visited this week who is preparing a home for market over in Shoreline. A small home in a private, lush setting with medium colored wood trims around the wall of garden windows and for kitchen cabinetry. I recommended that he use a little color in the high vaulted walls in the kitchen to accent the height of the space. You don't want to use colors that are too dark anywhere in a small space. Perhaps semolina in the kitchen and stem green in the master bedroom areas. By painting both the bedroom and the dressing area the same color, you expand the size of the master space beyond just the bedroom.
For a small home with medium colored natural wood trims, the colors that work best together from the above list are semolina, stem green, suntan yellow, brookside moss
Due to the coloring of the millwork, I recommend from the above chart, Semolina, Stem Green. Semolina may be a little too bright except in the kitchen where there is not much wall space due to the cabinets. Stem Green in both the kitchen would likely work well, but I don't think semolina can carry into the bedroom. Suntan and acadia look nice together, but you want the house to blend well with all of the lush dark greens peeking in from the outside.
A little color goes a long way in a small home and Pottery Barn clearly spends a ton of money determining which colors are popular at any given time. You can benefit from their research dollars by emulating or choosing from their prechosen colors.
The right color can really make your millwork pop.
Here in Seattle where you want a lot of internal brightness to compensate for the lack of sun, painting only the angled accent walls, instead of the entire room, keeps everyting light and bright even when the weather says otherwise.
Great site! Thanks! I can paste the big squares side by side for a better comparison. Here's stem green and no-nonsense which might work better than the semolina
Caliente, above is generally too dark a color for a small room.
The trick to master bathrooms is to decorate them pretty much the same as the master bedroom. Even if the bath is small, you want the feeling that "the master" is one space, including the bath and closet.
Easier to make a mistake with a lighter color :) Caliente can be hard to paint over.
Mar. 28, 2008 - RE: Pottery Barn Paint Colors - Benjamin Moore
Posted by Kelly
I love the caliente. It is a georgeous, rich color. It is actually brighter than it appears on the site (pesky monitors).
That website www.myperfectcolor posted above (which I love by the way!) shows the Benjamin Moore Caliente in a color combination. Very nice. Would love to find towels to match that color. Anyone have a suggestion? (FYI, the green color in the combination is Wasabi)
I see a lot of it and it is very popular until someone is trying to sell their house...then not so popular. The sage green and gold and tuscan tones work better. Caliente works as an accent color, but when the whole room is done in that color it doesn't blend well with the rest of the house most times.
Thought of this while I was writing that. It depends how much wall space their is. In a kitchen there is often very little wall space and so a brighter color works well, which is why I recommended semolina for that particular kitchen which had very little wall space and most of it up above the cabinets.
Apr. 10, 2008 - RE: Pottery Barn Paint Colors - Benjamin Moore
Posted by Kelly
Ardell,
You are right. But I just love the deep/bright reds just the same. We actually painted our kitchen with a really vibrant goldish/orange yellow. I love it under the incandescent lights of our kitchen, but where it extends into the great room the sunlight dulls down the color. In hindsight I would have used an even deeper color to compensate for the sunlight.
It also comes in Firefly Glow which appears to be the deeper color you might try over the faded portion, if there's a break in the wall between the kitchen and the faded area.
In the comments you might not notice the difference, but I'm pretty sure firefly is lighter than firefly glow.
I wonder if there is a clear finish you can use to help reduce fading?
Jul. 3, 2008 - RE: Pottery Barn Paint Colors - Benjamin Moore
Posted by Sherry Mackay
I would love to know what colour of blue is used in the 3 bathroom photos where the different types of paint are described ie. semi-gloss, etc. I was going to use Yarmouth Blue (HC-150) for my bathroom, but the blue in these photos is really the colour I'm looking for.
Here's something I do A LOT! I get one color that I like as to tone. I use it in full strength and in whited down strength. I add white paint until I like it.
Paint the stem green in a fairly inconspicuous spot like low and behind a door and wait for it to dry. In a kitchen it could be above a cabinet if you have room above a cabinet, as that area will show "too dark" best.
Then add white paint to keep the same done but lighten "to taste", kind of like seasoning to taste.
When you have the color you want, make sure to bring the paint stick you stirred with, or a white cardboard with a stroke of paint on it, to the store for a "match" formula for future use.
When you want to "tone on tone" a large area without painting everything the same color, this method works really well. The far ends of my 1,600 sf main living space have the brightest/darkest shade to draw the eye the full length. The lighter tones are mixed into medium and very light in between and mostly on the side walls to add width to a very long narrow floorplan.
Adding white keeps tone better than trying to find alternate pre-mixed colors or paint chips. Hard to go wrong when you are using the same paint in different depths of color by mixing white.
I tend to use colors that mis well with white. It's possible there is an exception to this...but I haven't found it yet. Works for me with browns (which came out like a chocolate milkshake). Only problem with that is the room makes me hungry :)
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DellaLoggia
On Seattle Real Estate including Kirkland, Bellevue, Redmond, Green Lake and most areas around Lake Washington North of Downtown Seattle.
Phone: 206-910-1000 - Mailto:Ardell@RainCityGuide.com
You can find many great Seattle real estate agents and loan officers on ActiveRain.com ARDELL DellaLoggia is a proud member of the ActiveRain Real Estate Network, a free online community to help real estate professionals grow their business.
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