I agree with the choice of the blue/green on the far right. With bright white trim, it will be stunning.
I love the blue green. Please don’t tone it down. if you are in doubt, tell us the brand of the paint and the name or # of the paint chip.
Wow, I thought for sure it would be too dark, too much contrast, too personal for selling a house.
BENJAMIN MOORE
Homestead Green
We saw it on this house in Houzz and fell in love with it. But of course it doesn’t look like that on my little house surrounded by a lot of white 
I also like Behr Rainwater which I just loaded up to Flickr, but I don’t have a large swatch painted yet
The same house on Houzz has the style of kitchen ceilings that I am going to put in. Of course my ceilings won’t be as tall, and the kitchen is not that large and grand
http://www.houzz.com/photos/96013/Chestnut-Street-Kitchen-traditional-kitchen-boston
http://www.houzz.com/photos/bead-board-ceiling-/p/8
http://www.houzz.com/photos/2376398/Historical-Colonial-in-Pasadena-traditional-kitchen-los-angeles (I love how this ceiling has a different color than the walls)
I’m not going to alternate the panels, they will all be going lengthwise on the ceiling
OK, this is weird – that exterior green is a practically perfect match for the color on my house. It was a custom Benjamin Moore mix my painter had tinted for us after trying about a dozen other similar colors. Closest stock color is Benjamin Moore Wythe Blue: http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-color/wytheblue (which I think of as green.)
I’ve used Wythe Blue before. It’s a very pretty color.
I"m much more partial to blue than green. One of the reasons I wanted to get rid of our front door was it was a dark green. Replaced it with a natural wood stained door that I much prefer. Green is a tough color–I think in general more folks love a nice shade of blue over greens. Too tough to find the right shade with greens.
the bead board on the ceiling looks good. do you have to texture your ceiling first or place it right over drywall?
If you’re concerned Homestead Green is a bit too deep over the whole house, how about Benjamin Moore Seacliff Heights? It’s just a bit lighter and a perfect name to go with your house! Over at Behr, I like Mountain Air and Coastal Mist, which are lighter yet.
I had a chance to ask the City Inspector what I needed to do to put all this bead board paneling up. If the paneling is less than 1/2" thick, you have to put drywall up first. They are looking for ‘fire retardant’ properties. So the drywall slows down a fire. If we had used the thick wood tongue and groove, it can be nailed straight to the studs.
I am not going to tape, mud or texture underneath the bead board or ceiling paneling. We are going to either Liquid Nails glue it up with some small nails (horror! could you imagine trying to get that stuff off of the walls and ceiling 10 yrs from now when you hate it), but most likely we will put it up with small finish nails and use a lot of trim to cover the nail lines. That is why you see a lot of trim on these types of applications - it’s covering up the ugly screws and nails 
I am also partial to the blue tones - very difficult to find the perfect green.
I love that Homestead Green! I would totally use it to paint my house! It is lovely and absolutely not too dark!
(Here is my rant: in the PNW people pick the most depressing, crap colored paints for their newly built craftsmans. Why?! Ugh.)
Love the ceilings. We are back to the fun part now!
After looking at a lot of kitchen and bath photos over the last couple of years, I have to say that I am totally over those tiled walls/backsplashes that use a mosaic of little strip tiles. They are purchased in blocks on webbing. Especially the brownish ones. I think they are the avocado green/burnt orange of this era.
http://www.houzz.com/photos/3047301/Coastal-Living-Davis-Island-Interior-Design-tropical-kitchen-tampa
http://www.houzz.com/photos/2376398/Historical-Colonial-in-Pasadena-traditional-kitchen-los-angeles
Can you file a complaint with the Register of Contractors? In my state that would get you some action from the contractor.
If he has an alcohol problem, maybe he was drunk while he was working. In this case, the required inspections may have been very worthwhile, as they forced you to find and fix the problems.
We enforce a lot of inspections on ourselves before we ever finish plumbing or electrical. If we had done the gas lines ourselves, that gas pressure gauge would have been on there months ago. But the plumber kept refusing to put on the pressure gauge and was running around with his ‘sniffer’. I watched him put his sniffer (who knows if it was even on?) around every joint. He pronounced ‘no leaks’. Every time we put the gauge back on to run air pressure through the lines he kept saying it was the HVAC gas lines (done by someone else). He would then put gas back on and show me his sniffer was OK on ‘his work’.
The gas has been off for months while we finished other work. As soon as we put our gauge back on, it was obviously there was a problem. So, we would have caught it months ago if my guy had done the work himself. We do most of the same plumbing, sewer line and electrical type tests that the City does.
We just don’t invent shear walls throughout the house when the house has been standing fine for 80 years!! And then need to pay a special inspector to come see if we nailed the plywood correctly (absolutely absurd!).
I ran out to get a couple more colors that were very similar to the Homestead Green and the Wythe Blue from Benjamin Moore. It was amazing that the wythe blue was very green and the homestead green ran much bluer
I think it’s going to be Homestead Green, but in a ‘satin’ finish. That will make it much easier for the future buyer to clean the outside of the house with a hose, and it holds the true color longer. Dark colors in flat paint on wood fade very fast. I may even splurge and put on the Behr Marquee paint because it is guaranteed to never fade.
Consolation - totally agree! I think the busy stripy mosaics are quickly out of style. I’m thinking of just the carerra marble small backsplash or some muted blue/green glass subway tile for this kitchen. But I’m far away from worrying about backsplash tile at this point. I need to get moving on finding the right tile for the main shower that works well with the vanity I bought
http://www.homedecorators.com/P/Barcelona-Double-Bath-Vanity/00/410/
It’s going to be tough to do that color proud. I think I told you all that the vanity arrived weighing 350 lbs and the delivery guy couldn’t even get it out of his van. I paid extra for ‘threshold’ delivery and wrote in a statement on my order that the vanity had to be delivered up a set of stairs. The guy shows up with this 6 ft 350lbs vanity in a van!!! And his helper was his wife??? Obviously he didn’t get it up the stairs, I had to get everyone that was working to come down and pitch in just to get it out of the van and push it into the garage.
Last week when the painters were here, my lead forced everyone to go down to the garage and try to get this behemoth up those curvy skinny stairs, through the front door and into the living room. We still haven’t figured out how we are going to angle it into the little vestibule area, turn it left, get it through a 24" bathroom door, turn it a hard right and set it in place. Of course it would be easy if we could do it now when the drywall and paint isn’t finished. But, unfortunately we have to wait until the bathroom tile floor has been installed!! Oh, and did I mention that I have no idea what floor tile I’m going to install
Love the Homestead Green. I think the satin finish is a smart choice, too.
For tile, have you looked at Crossville? I especially like their Virtue series:
http://crossvilleinc.com/products/virtue/
The 2X2 hex would be gorgeous. Sadly, it wasn’t yet available when we did our bathroom remodel.
OK, we are back to lighting!!!
My favorite chandelier for the living room was the black iron one with 9 seeded glass orbs (kind of like fishing net balls). Went to order it last week and, just my luck!!, it’s on back order until May. If I am still working on this house in May…!!!
So, now I am back focused on kitchen pendants. I had to weed back through to our lighting discussion. Can you believe that was at the end of October??? Oh… and I see that I posted a ‘Budget Update’ at the end of October = $66,000 spent and I was panicking. Geez, that was so $60k ago. Money is just flying out the window!
Pottery Barn is having a sale. I decided that the colored seeded glass pendants just aren’t the right color. So, I see two possibilities at Pottery Barn that are an incredibly good price
http://www.potterybarn.com/products/harlow-outdoor-pendant/?pkey=call-lighting&
http://www.potterybarn.com/products/clift-seeded-glass-pendants/?cm_src=AutoRel
Regarding lighting… I ended up having to find the least expensive native LED outdoor fixtures for the courtyard and the deck. I had no choice… they are going to get inspected.
I had a long talk with City inspector today and he is just so incredibly nice (we passed drywall inspection and HVAC ducting inspection today). He walked around and I asked about all the lighting. I had purchased a nice exterior entry light before we got busted. I asked him if I could put an LED bulb in the fixture and it would pass for Title 24 energy compliance. He said NO, it has to be native fluorescent or LED or motion detector. BUT, he said “Keep It, it is obviously original to the house (wink wink), put an LED bulb in it and I’ll pretend that I missed it”.
Then I asked about the bathrooms and kitchens. Since I already have LED recessed lighting in kitchen, it counts as at least 50% of the lighting, so I can have any pendants I want. On the bathrooms, if I put in occupancy sensors he will let me have any lighting I want. They used to have a requirement that lighting in a crawlspace or attic had to have an occupancy sensor - but that became ridiculous because if someone is working at the far end of a crawlspace on the HVAC system or something, they would have to crawl back to the sensor every 5 minutes and wave their hands in the air!