The Newmans

Friday, July 19, 2013

Final decision on paint colors

Our final decisions on paint colors so far are as such:

Living room, hallways, entryway and dining room - Behr's Pebble Path and Behr's Peacock Tail for the accent wall.



Pebble Path is a nice warm color but shows up super yellow in EVERY picture and in the evenings against our house lights. During the day when the sun is shining in it's fine. So, we are going to repaint the hallways in whatever color we choose to repaint the dinning room. 

 (Pebble path in the entry way and living room while the sun is blazing through the windows! Love it)

 (I love Behr's Pebble Path while the sun is shining)

 (Behr's Pebble Path in the evenings...yuck! Yes, the dinning room is getting repainted. Can you believe it's the same color!?!?)

 (Behr's Peacock Tail blue. We love this color. Unfortunately, it looks navy blue in almost every picture. In person it's more teal. I have no idea why the green tint doesn't come through in pictures. (Again, Pebble Path looking very yellow...total bust) My dad thought we were nuts painting an accent wall this color, but now that he sees the full picture he really loves it. I can't wait for you to see it decorated!)


Master bedroom - Behr's Zen (accent wall) and Behr's Burnt Almond for the other three walls



We first painted the other three walls in Pebble Path..yuck! The yellow in Pebble Path pulled out all the yellows in Zen and made it look almost slimmer green. Hubs and I quickly back Burnt Almond and spent all night repainting the walls the painters just painted. We are crazy! But we are now VERY happy. It was worth the extra work.

 (Behr's Pebble Path next to Behr's Zen...yuck! They bring out the worst in each other.) 

(We love Behr's Zen now that the other walls are Behr's Burnt Almond. Also this is a great picture of our base boards and refinished floors)


My office - Behr's Gray Morning


I love it. It's calming yet creative. Perfect for my work space. Lots of natural light in this room as well.





Master Bathroom - Behr's Ice Cube


Everyone loves the color we painted our bathroom. It's very feminine. We added shimmery glass accessories and eventually want to change the mirror frames and cabinet nobs, along with the shower trim.


 (the master bathroom wasn't bad to begin with, just boring for us)

 (Master bathroom in Behr's Ice Cube. It gives a fresh and clean feel. We still have to paint the white areas to make them crisp.)


Rooms we have yet to paint :

-Guest bed room (future nursery)
-Kitchen
-Guest bathroom (repaint)
-Dinning room (repaint)
-Laundry room

    I would like to do something fresh and crazy in the laundry room. Something like sea foam green. You only live once, live in color! What's the worst that could happen? If you hate it buy another $40 gallon of paint and burn some calories repainting...no big deal! :-) Have fun with your space. Being happy is the most important thing.
     Paint colors are very tricky. Look at my experience with Pebble Path. I spent days searching other people's pictures online, I tried tons of samples and yet I still have to repaint. It's part of the process. :-)

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