I need some help/ideas for painting the interior of my house.

[MandyH]

Kodiak, why don't you just take a vacation and come on down here and help me!!!!! I've got LOTS of fresh veggies from the garden, and we have lots of heat and humidity!! I like the colors on the Sherwin Williams swatch too, just not sure how to go about distributing those colors on the walls and trim just yet.

 

[verthandi]

There is a line of paint called Sturbridge Village. It is historical correct colors for homes. It might be a good source of ideas for colors that would be correct for you home, if that is something that you are trying to achieve. Nice soft and muted colors. They also make matching stain.

 

[MandyH]

Hey, thanks for that info. Is it something you can get at Lowe's or is it online? I'll look it up and see, thanks agian!

 

[kodiakchicken]

Kristen,

I would looovvvveeee to take a vacation and come help you do your house! Seeing as it's 54 degrees and raining here and I've had all of 3 tomatoes this year (each only 1" in diameter), your place sounds like heaven!

I still think you should try the sage green on the walls and a lighter gold (not yellow, but tannish gold) as trim and then use the rust and teal (when you get it) as accents.

If a strange woman shows up on your doorstep with a chicken under one arm and paintbrushes under the other - let me in and feed me some of those fresh veggies!

 

[verthandi]

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I know my local Benjamin Moore dealer sells it. To tell you the truth I would just use it to find the color combinations that I like and have the color mixed in your brand of choice. I tend to use Benjamin Moore because it covers well but it is pricey. But I hate re-coating walls or trim, I only want to do it once, so I don't mind buying the better paint.

Home Depot sells a line of heritage colors too, at least at the store near me.

I just found this company too while I was looking to the Sturbridge Village paint. I like that they have the amount to white to add to the base color to get the other shades. It would make it easy to blend your own trim or accent colors. The Sturbridge Willage paints are even more muted than these and they make a white wash paint too that is lightly textured. I'll grab one of their pamphlets when I go to town.

http://www.milkpaint.com/color.html

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

when we bought our place the entire house minus the master bedroom was painted off white. With no shades in the windows, walking into the living room with east and south facing windows was blinding. The light just reflected off the large expanse of white walls.

So I painted the walls with windows a peach color and the windowless walls a light rose. Left the white trim around the windows and doorways. It was like that for a few years. The parents of my daycare kids loved it. It was always bright and cheerful in the room. After I stopped doing daycare I wanted a change. So now three walls are a sage green and the wall behind the couch is a deep red.

I LOVE COLOR!

The dining kitchen area is a lighter blue.. but not pastel. Hall and stairway is a light light sand. Pantry is white with blue trim(will soon be a bright lemon yellow trim)
Library ie extra bedroom is going to be a cocoa color.
My daughters room is my fave though. Half her walls are a solid color and the lower half we painted striped of her fave colors. I will see if I can find any pictures and post them.

I get this color thing from my mom. she cant stand beige and blah either. MY dh is amazingly not afraid of color. He grew up surrounded by beige and white

 

[kodiakchicken]

I get my love of color and decorating from my mother too.

Funny story - my dad is a typical brown or white guy. Took my mom years to get him to even wear a shirt color other than brown. So, they always had white walls, which my mom hated. He took a job where he was gone 2 weeks at a time and on his first trip out Mom went crazy and painted her bathroom purple and teal! Their house has been fulll-blown color ever since!

 

[MandyH]

My kitchen and dining room are one BIG space that measures about 20x32 or so, and I told dh I was going to paint it brick red and keep the white trim and put Purina checkerboard around top of the wall to make it resemble an old red barn. He said "cool". I already have old wooden egg crates and old crocks and churns and other various OLD stuff decorating that space so I thought it might look cool to walk in and think "old red barn". That is also where I keep my old Maytag washing machine from the 1940's and it is white too so that would blend in lovely. Kodiak, you just come right on down here, I already have the paintbrushes so you'll have more room to tote your chickens!!!!