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Originally Posted by my2boyz  The color I used is called Coffee House...I got it at Wal-Mart. There is also a Martha Stewart color that is a shade or two lighter than this one called Pearl Gray...I used that one in the lake house with white trim and oak floors and it looked great...I got it at Menard's.
The valances I have are a plaid made up of taupe, deep red, green and cream. The green is maybe sage green...too many green colors for me to remember! I used red accents (towels, utensil holder etc...) in the kitchen with the same curtain because it's an open area...green with cream in the spare bedroom, deep red and taupe in our bedroom and taupe and white in each of the bathrooms. Each room has the same wall color but each one has it's own predominant color pulled from the valances. I love it...it's pleasing to look from one end of the house to the other. I've been in some homes where your eyes just about pop from the stress of too many colors...the soothing taupe flowing from one wall to the next doesn't give you that reaction.
We also have oak cabinets in the kitchen and I picked out a granite for the counter tops that has the taupe, reds and gray. It is perfect with the cabinets and colors I picked out and it looks great with stainless steel appliances...which we will also do. The granite is called Saint Cecelia I think. I also plan to use it for the bathroom vanity tops and floors. We just used the same combination in the house we gave our son and everyone who sees it really likes it.
P.S. We had a home several years ago with oak floors and I used a buttery yellow on the walls...it looked great with the oak. |
Thanks for replying, I use to go nuts with colors, but then I found, I got sick of the rooms too fast, and now like neutrals, except for accents, I just don't get as tired of the rooms this way. When looking at homes, seeing every room painted a different strong color was almost depressing or overwhelming, it does give a much choppier effect. I've done every variation of yellow years ago, and use to love it, but maybe it's just too sunny here.
