<p>I need to freshen up the interior of my house. There are Sooo many choices out there to choose from. Yet, you know when you see that perfect shade in a house or somewhere it can really make a room. </p>
<p>So, what are some of your favorite colors? (bonus points for Benjamin Moore colors since my hubby is partial to their paint.)</p>
<p>Benjamin Moore’s Paris Rain is gorgeous. I also like Gray Horse.</p>
<p>I’m in the midst of a remodel and just painted my kitchen Benjamin Moore Bird’s Egg (a pale blue green). Love it!</p>
<p>Benjamin Moore’s Hawthorne Yellow (HC-2) makes me happy. For white the Alabaster (used to be 876) is a great white for trim. It looks pinkish on the card, but not at all in real life and it matches every color.</p>
<p>We used Benjamin Moore Navaho in our bedroom. Really nice as neutrals go.</p>
<p>You have to go with your preferred color palette. For us it is various blues, greens and beige/tans. NO YELLOW! You can get color matching with any other brand if you find the color of your choice in the other brand. Wish I had known this ages ago instead of limiting myself to the chosen brand’s colors. It is also best to choose the fabrics and then find paint to go with them instead of finding fabric that matches/goes with your paint choice. It is amazing how many similar shades/tones et al there are for every color. I wanted nonpale colors and ended up diluting colors with white as they were darker on a whole wall than I expected. This was years ago- next owner will repaint this house (soon, I hope). I also discovered (with another brand) that there is more than one formulation to get a given color- be sure to have the formulation noted on the can in case you need more paint later. Colors appear different in different lighting- sunshine, lamps, shadows.</p>
<p>My bedroom and bath are Restoration Hardware Silver Sage (used to be made by Ben Moore). About five years ago Rodda began supplying their paint so it’s no longer Ben Moore. It’s a beautiful mix of blue/green that changes throughout the day with the lighting. It’s very calming.</p>
<p>I <3 white walls.</p>
<p>OP, I have 6 stripes of off-white paint on exterior trim of house, and painter coming by today for selection. He was referred by the BM store. I know Consumers likes HD paint, but I prefer BM.</p>
<p>If you give hints as to your color choices, would be easier to offer suggestions. When I put in wood floors in LR, K, family room, walls were repainted Cameo white, which was warmer than former Linen. My office is a sage, the worm’s room is blue. Exterior is Navajo. A friend used Hawthorne yellow. The painter lent me the full wheel, so I will look up the other colors mentioned.</p>
<p>Benjamin Moore Bleeker Beige is a great neutral. Not brown, not grey, just a perfect taupe. We used it in our open foyer and throughout the hallways. It’s a great lead-in to more colorful rooms.</p>
<p>If you google BM “favorite colors”, or something like that, you’ll find the colors which are most popular, listed by room. There are some truly beautiful colors listed, many of which have been mentioned here. Sometimes the best color choice may depend on the size and available light in a room.</p>
<p>Yay to Navaho. That’s what I chose for sunnier interior. Perfect neutral.</p>
<p>I have BM Whisper Pine in the master bedroom of our beach house and find it very relaxing.</p>
<p>Hmmm…will have to check out Bleeker Beige…enough color but not too much???</p>
<p>That’s what I thought Navaho was. No identifiable color just toned-down whiteness.</p>
<p>If you are curious about a color people post here, go to this website and enter the color name in the little search box way to the right of the words “Colour Gallery” - I like Bleeker Beige!!!</p>
<p>[Colour</a> Gallery](<a href=“http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/for-your-home/explore-paint-colors#&ce_s=bleeker%20beige&ce_vm=0]Colour”>Explore Over 3,500 Paint Colors | Benjamin Moore)</p>
<p>Beware of colors you see on the screen. Especially with off-whites.</p>
<p>Do you mean they aren’t true to color? Whites are always tricky…I have wasted so much $$ trying to find perfect colors - that little paint card just doesn’t hold true so many times! I love when you can get a small sample can to try first…</p>
<p>Trust me Alabaster is much nicer than the overused Navaho. I worked for an interior designer for six years, and that was her secret! (Only back then the color didn’t have a name.) Navaho has a lot more yellow in it and it’s darker.</p>
<p>I agree BTW that you can’t always trust screen colors. I had to do a presentation at a board of architectural review recently and wanted to print out one of the HC greens. (Sort of a toned down olive.) It looked brown on the screen and printed out brown too. Totally useless. I ended up just using one of the tiny squares from the sample cards.</p>
<p>Another color I really like if you want a calm soothing neutral is Benjamin Moore 1555. It’s a lovely light gray. (They call it winter orchard now.)</p>
<p>I agree Navaho is darker. That’s why I used it in south facing rooms. I didn’t know it was overused. I thought I only found the true gem.</p>
<p>Color depends on glossyness. Small square of color does help much, either. On screens, it also depends how you set the color of your monitor. I once ordered a telephone cord, light gray that matched my old Bell trim-line phone that you can’t find anywhere anymore. It was a perfect match on the screen, turned out not so in real. Not even close.</p>