<p>There are interior colors other than white?</p>
<p>I need to expand my horizons.</p>
<p>We LOVE Ralph Lauren’s Crab Apple (Home Depot). It is a golden beige color-- not too pinkish and not too yellowish. Most paint stores have a conversion for this color. We have used this color inside on two different houses in the last ten years and get nothing but rave reviews. For a white/off-white, you cannot go wrong with most Swiss Coffees.</p>
<p>I had a friend once who painted her grand living room in burgundy. It worked great with her furniture and the feel of the room. It worked for her. I need neutral non-stimulating. I was showing new sofa fabric to my kid yesterday. Her response, “That’s so boring.” Ouch!</p>
<p>I would also caution against conversions of a color at a different paint store. I once picked out a color for a painter. He took the liberty to buy the paint from a nearby store which carried the same mix but using their own base. It is the same color but not the shade of the color I picked unfortunately. Now I buy my own paint unless I know the painter personally.</p>
<p>Conversions CAN be tricky so best to sample first. I’ve also had issues when getting the same paint color from the same paint company but a different company LOCATION. Their machines were not calibrated the same.</p>
<p>Edit: When doing conversions, purchase a sample from one company and have the other company color match it.</p>
<p>I wonder if anyone knows of a nice pink paint color that isn’t over the top. I would really like to paint one bedroom in my house pink but I’m afraid of going too saccharine, or too peachy, or Pepto Bismo…so many pitfalls. I want something subtle. Ideas?</p>
<p>Recently found a very subtle pink that works well with BJ Super White. It’s called Frosted Petal. It’s not peachy, not purpley, not beige – just a really clear soft pink.</p>
<p>Am debating between a blue and gray combo vs. blue and sage-y green in our MBR. It’s the only room I haven’t painted since we moved here, and since we are thinking about getting a new bed, it seems a good time to paint while we’re decluttering and refeathering the nest.</p>
<p>@ CountingDown - I went through more than twenty samples of green/blue/gray combos on my wall before settling on the Silver Sage. I have had it up for about 6 years and LOVE it. I have wrought iron black accents to help ground everything and porcelain blue bedding from Pottery barn. It’s really neutral and soothing. I’ve never second guessed the choice and have many complements. If you have a Restoration Hardware near you quite often they use the paint on the walls as their signature color. Keep in mind the lighting really alters the appearance of this color. I love the velvet finish, kind of like an eggshell but it seems really rich and soft.</p>
<p>This is the only ‘cool’ color in the house for some reason. I went towards reds, browns, and loden green in the rest of the house.</p>
<p>sewhappy, frosted petal looks great, thanks so much. I’m going to get a sample and try it out.</p>
<p>Mathmom, I trust your judgment so much that I just bought Alabaster sample. I now have 4 big stripes on trim of garage.</p>
<p>It looks the same as BM Simply white, and a tad paler than Sherwin Williams’ Brilliant white. Maybe its the perfect inbetween color?</p>
<p>I used Atrium White as trim in a couple of rooms, and I was so mad at myself. It was already up when I realized it had pinkish undertones. I use White Dove as the trim color now. Anyone else use it?</p>
<p>We have a sage in our bedroom and the bedding is either (light) green strips or blue from LL Bean. Still happy with it.</p>
<p>Benj Moore HC-117 Hancock Green</p>
<p>The Silver Sage looks nice, it’s grayer. Surprisingly close to the gray (Winter Orchard) that my son’s room is painted.</p>
<p>If you’re looking for a really sophisticated neutral, would recommend BM Historical Colors 81 (Manchester Tan). Just put this in our dining room with Dove White trim. It’s so tasteful we are feeling intimidated by our dining room!</p>
<p>^I like Manchester Tan it looks just like the color I painted our dorm living room my senior year. My best (but not very diplomatic) friend came in and said, “Oh, landlord brown.” Grrr.</p>
<p>Colors don’t stand on their own. We have a neighbor who got her stone house painted in white with pink tint. You never see pink until it snows. She likes that. I got my powder room painted dirty white. The color by itself is ugly but it works with the room. I congratulate myself every time I use the powder room for the paint.</p>
<p>I personally like yellows and golds for my house. I have dark wood floors and this tends to brighten the walls up. Also used yellow in my basement to make it feel more cheery. A bathroom and one bedroom I used blues with white trim. My bedroom has an lemongrass green and I still love it after living with it for 5 years. It is my favorite color in the house. My bathroom is more of an aqua color. I like it but not a love. My family room is a leaf green. It is ok but not a love.</p>
<p>My suggestion is to get the fabrics you love and match your favorite color in the fabric. Also look for fabrics in the colors you like to wear. I find if I look good in a color I tend to like the color on the wall. Go lighter more so than darker but that would depend on the room. Sometimes small rooms look good darker. </p>
<p>Also, if you find a color in your fabric you like go to the color combination charts. I find the rooms that follow those charts tend to look more polished. Make one of the colors the trim, one the walls and one the fabric choice. </p>
<p>I used BM but I am too lazy to go get the cans and look.</p>
<p>I use White Dove for trim and until last week the hallways on all 3 floors of my home were painted Manchester Tan. Almost all colors look good off Manchester Tan. I just put wainscoting, painted White Dove and a nice neutral Ralph Lauren wallpaper on floors 1 and 2. Still decing what to do with floor 3 and a small study at the top of the staircase to the second floor which is still Manchester Tan. May punch it up with a deep green or red. </p>
<p>I used BM Brilliant White for the outside trim also.</p>
<p>I’m a high school art teacher and my students do a public art project every year. I can tell you from experience that Benjamin Moore paint is great stuff! There are murals that are 15+ years old hanging on buildings that still look fresh.</p>
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That’s certainly true. That’s why it’s always good to test the color at the site if you can. When I worked for the interior designer we did a color board for one room that had a paint color (a yellow shade) that looked great with all the fabrics. Only one problem at the site the yellow turned a ghastly shade of green. I’ve never seen such a dramatic color change. The room got a lot of bounced light from gray stone walls across the way. It still matched the fabric, but it was a horrible color. </p>
<p>Having grown up in too many years of white houses (foreign service issue) I like to have fun with paint.</p>