Pricey A.I. Robots/Santa, Are you able to please create a constructing the place we color-loving people can stroll by and expertise each single paint coloration (in each pure gentle and darkish) earlier than we decide to it on our partitions? Now that I’ve designed a good quantity of homes and painted many a room I really feel excessive confidence in sure colours, at the same time as my worry of making an attempt new ones and getting them fallacious runs deep (and at occasions retains me from taking some coloration dangers). Wouldn’t it simply be magical if Sherwin-Williams had a bodily room for each single coloration??? So I may stroll in, seize Brian’s arm, and say “Ooh I like how this feels!! That is good for our household room” as a substitute of portray the room, say, a number of occasions? As a result of whereas the quantity of sunshine, course of the solar, location on the planet, and your exhausting finishes in fact can change the tone of the paint coloration, for probably the most half, the worry of getting it fallacious lies in whether or not the colour itself is one that you just like sufficient to be surrounded by whereas having fun with the room. And at occasions that’s simply so exhausting to foretell from a ten×12 pattern. Belief me.
So at this time I assumed I’d begin rounding up my favourite blue paint colours that I’ve personally skilled, and would ABSOLUTELY use once more. This all stemmed from me serving to design my brother’s river home the place we painted 7 completely different colours – all SO GOOD, and it makes me need to invite the entire world over so you may expertise the colour versus simply it on-line (which y’all, it’s simply exhausting to belief). I’m going to leak the colours we selected on the finish (with out images, but) as a result of they’re all so freaking good. However first, let’s begin with what we do have good reference images of:
Dew Drop by Sherwin-Williams
Soothing, gentle, and ethereal, with some inexperienced in it – this tremendous gentle blue is so dreamy, particularly in numerous pure gentle. I feel in a darkish room it may not learn as a “coloration” per se, however right here in opposition to the white and wooden it’s so good. My buddy painted her teenage son’s room this coloration and he LOVES it. It’s not child nor does it really feel pastel, simply gentle if that makes any sense.
Now for this no-natural-light laundry room, we selected one thing extra saturated (than our well-lit room) which was the precise name as a result of it wanted to have extra pigment to actually present up (I’ve needed to be taught this lesson a bunch of occasions!). Sleepy Blue is certainly extra on the pastel facet, thus being so comfortable and brilliant. Much less grayed out refined and extra clear/recent and comfortable. I feel this coloration can be superior in a well-lit room as properly, however check it out as a result of it would learn extra pastel and daring child blue or it simply may be a brilliant comfortable sunny blue.
We used Clare Paint’s Good Denims in our basement toilet (a pandemic funds improve we did proper earlier than we offered the home). Whereas bolder than most of my denim, this coloration felt saturated and calming. It may be even higher in a room meant to be darker and comfy like a den or a media room.
Debonair by Sherwin-Williams
I LOVE this coloration and have it in my bed room, clearly. Now the one factor I’ll warn you about is I feel it’s higher in a room with much less pure gentle in order that the moodiness is embraced. it has numerous undertones in it that play in a different way all through the day and it’s so cozy at night time or when it’s cloudy. Now, typically when the sunshine hits it the pigment pops in a approach that’s jarring, which is why I feel that is greatest for a room with much less direct pure gentle – a room that’s meant to really feel cozier (eating, workplace, den, household room). I’ll use it once more, however not in a room that has 4 home windows and 4 skylights (and if I may snap my fingers I’d change it proper now to Eventide – a coloration we utilized in my bro’s home that’s INCREDIBLE and has the precise quantity of blue pigment I need whereas remaining gentle and nonetheless impartial).
Such an awesome blue – I needed it a number of locations after I painted this room. Whereas the pattern appears to be greener blues proper now this grayed-out blue is tremendous timeless, not daring, and has a perspective with out being dangerous in any respect (IMHO). Additionally greatest for rooms with much less pure gentle (y’all, if you need my #3 design rule it’s preserve gentle rooms gentle and darkish rooms darkish).
Waterloo by Sherwin-Williams
The basement of the Portland Mission, in Waterloo, positive is a contented but muted blue. Admittedly, it appears like Slate Tile however lighter and maybe a tiny bit much less inexperienced? It’s a good one and I feel nice for mid to low-light rooms (this basement appears brilliant within the images however it opened to an enormous lined patio so it’s def much less brilliant on a standard day.
Right here it’s in one other room, with out pure gentle (besides coming from the kitchen). Fairly comfortable and nice 🙂
Clearly, I’ve received a sort…this darker moody blue is SO GOOD. I’ve nearly used it so many occasions and it’s at all times one of many high contenders, and now seeing it right here I keep in mind why. What a stunning darkish but nonetheless comfortable shade of a moody blue.
So darkish and funky and undoubtedly greatest for a room that has some however not an excessive amount of pure gentle. It will probably go nearly black, in a extremely great way.
Our on-line world by Sherwin-Williams
One other nice “nearly black” darkish blue that was so good for this room. It had numerous pure gentle since you may see the pigment. I’ve discovered that typically in a room that has nearly no pure gentle, an excellent darkish paint coloration is difficult to your eye to learn and simply appears “darkish” (see Nonetheless Water commentary beneath) so if you wish to see that it’s an excellent darkish blue it wants some gentle to select up the colour.
Hague Blue is considered one of my all-time favorites that I haven’t used shortly! It has the slightest tint of inexperienced in it, making it an excellent darkish indigo? I painted the outside of The Fig Home this coloration as properly. Farrow & Ball is at all times a splurge (and coloration matching will be tough as a result of their pigmentation course of is extraordinarily refined and nuanced), however in case you have the funds for sure particular rooms I like this coloration.
For these keen to go extra daring, Stiffkey Blue is unbelievable. It’s not “BRIGHT BLUE” however it positive has numerous strong pigment that makes it pop no matter being in a well-lit room or a darker house. It reads as blue it doesn’t matter what. Gosh, I find it irresistible a lot and hadn’t thought of it for some time, however it’s for positive considered one of my favorites ever for rooms like this that may deal with numerous coloration (Ginny executed it completely, in fact).
I used Stiffkey Blue in our previous major toilet in LA which by the best way I hadn’t seen shortly and I find it irresistible SOOOOO MUCH. I’ve a bunch of that leftover wallpaper that I’m kinda impressed to place in our little tiny hallway heading into our bed room now. It’s simply so good! Anyway, so is Stiffkey Blue. A strong alternative my buddies and nice for small rooms like this, particularly if solely on the underside (it may have labored all the best way up but in addition may need felt a bit overwhelming for a small toilet.
Arlyn completely executed this tremendous darkish blue-gray-green. I like how its coloration drenched on the ceiling and he or she added all of the artwork with white borders to interrupt it up and add a lot life.
Now this coloration, Stunwell Water by Sherwin-Williams, has numerous inexperienced in it however it nonetheless falls extra within the blue class for me. This coloration is so unbelievably good in right here as a result of it’s meant to be a darkish room so it nonetheless actually reads as this darkish blue/inexperienced/teal. If it had been in a room with a ton of pure gentle it might have most likely learn extraordinarily daring and TEAL (when we’ve got the overhead lights on it’s a bit an excessive amount of for me), however within the cozy lamplight, it’s good. So sure, simply guarantee that in case you have a extremely brilliant room you just like the boldness of the pigment. Right here, it’s so good (THANK GOD).
Now I didn’t select this coloration (the architect William Hunter, did) and it’s simply so good. Actually muted and leaning in the direction of charcoal, this French Beret blue does have numerous grey in it, serving to it learn muted, refined, and splendidly moody. We LOVED it in particular person a lot and it was nice for this darker house (the doorways result in a lined patio) and made this smallish bed room really feel greater (kudos for doing the closets and curtains in the identical coloration, William).
If you’re into this we’re going to do different colours as properly, and I can’t WAIT to indicate you what we utilized in Ken’s home. Spoiler – Rain Cloud (a darkish blue that’s sooooo fairly, daring but muted if that’s even potential??), Eventide – the right gentle blue/grey that doesn’t learn as “BLUE” or unhappy grey (I need it in our bed room!) and some greens I’ll share subsequent time 🙂
Oh and right here is a superb graphic Gretchen made so you may simply pin all of those for straightforward entry!
Opening Picture Credit: Photograph by Kaitlin Inexperienced | From: Household Room Reveal – By Far The Coziest Room In The Home And Right here’s Why