https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:41:16 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors/page/2#post-2712055 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:00:21 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2712055@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: I'd do cloud white there.</p> <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: at least semi-gloss. Flat will show EVERYTHING! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2712052 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:59:01 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2712052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oliviaoblivia: what finish should trim be? I think our builder did everything in flat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2712039 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:47:22 +0000 winniebee 2712039@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter is one of my favorites -- our house was actually painted Sherwin Williams Agreeable Gray before we moved in and it's basically the same as Revere Pewter.</p> <p>Our bedroom is BM - Quiet Moments and I love it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2712036 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:41:03 +0000 Anagram 2712036@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our main room is an uglyish beige that I don't love.....but I'm kind of afraid to paint by myself, which is why I want to start with the trim (which really needs it). Would Oxford White be too white for the beige wall? What we have now looks pretty white to my untrained eye. I don't have any decent pics on my work computer, but it's this color.@oliviaoblivia:</p> <p>[attach=2976/17/omyzsg.600x450.windows-new.jpg]</p> <p>[attach=2976/17/omyzu6.600x450.windows-2.jpeg] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2712024 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:22:29 +0000 Anagram 2712024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jape14: Thanks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2712023 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:22:19 +0000 Anagram 2712023@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oliviaoblivia: Thanks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711975 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:01:19 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2711975@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: I generally use either cloud white or Oxford White for trim. Cloud white is a little warmer and we use that in more traditional houses. Oxford White is a little brighter and more modern. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711937 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:42:00 +0000 jape14 2711937@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: we have SW Alabaster as our trim color. it works really well both with warm and cool tones! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711935 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:39:18 +0000 Anagram 2711935@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I want people here to talk about colors for baseboards and crown molding! White colors....any suggestions? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711928 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:34:09 +0000 RonjaL7 2711928@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Interesting to see so many votes for the same colors!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711880 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 08:04:04 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2711880@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. High Heels: you just reminded me I need to make a White Dove and Swiss Coffee swatch near the baseboards just to make sure there is enough contrast. </p> <p>Palladium Blue is gorgeous- we used it in our master bedroom in the last house and will use it our master bathroom in this house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711838 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 03:23:30 +0000 daniellemybelle 2711838@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yet another vote for Edgecomb Gray, Palladian Blue and Revere Pewter :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711831 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 01:38:50 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 2711831@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We love Edgecomb Gray and have it on our walls. It is a slightly warmer gray and very neutral, so it doesn't scream Gray. I loved Balboa Mist too, but on our walls, there was a slight undertone of purple. Definitely try some sample paint on your walls before making a final decision. Grays especially can look so different in different lighting.</p> <p>Tried Revere Pewter too because it's a popular one, but looked too beige, dark, and drab in our house because we don't have a lot of natural light. We have Palladian Blue in our bathrooms!</p> <p>White Dove is a good color if you're going white. We used it on our baseboards. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711766 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 20:50:21 +0000 SLR 2711766@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have SW Amazing Gray throughout our downstairs and BM Upper West Side in our bedroom. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711608 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:00:27 +0000 NCSUchick27 2711608@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This thread is very helpful. We will be doing a lot of painting very soon. I will definitely refer back here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711431 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:37:29 +0000 PawPrints 2711431@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@avivoca: Our downstairs hallway and stairway is Palladian Blue. It is lovely. We used to have the living/dining in the same color but after a few years the blueness of it started to feel too bright to me and I wanted something more of a gray. I still feel the blue is perfect for entryway/hallway/stairs though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711430 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:36:17 +0000 PawPrints 2711430@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@threeplusme: Ditto this advice; everywhere I searched people were gushing about Revere Pewter, but it looked awful on our walls. Like a sandy beige. I wanted gray. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711429 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:35:15 +0000 PawPrints 2711429@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oooh I know the answer to this question! :) The last two paint colors we used (for our living room and for LO's nursery) have me completely in love with them, and they've been on the walls for a couple years now.</p> <p>Benjamin Moore Wickham Gray (in our living room)<br /> Benjamin Moore Moonshine (DD's nursery)</p> <p>They are both just so, so gorgeous. The Wickham Gray reads as just slightly light blue in our living room and it's the best. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711425 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:30:21 +0000 Foodnerd81 2711425@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@threeplusme: definitely test swatches!</p> <p>I actually looked on Pinterest for the most popular colors and found ones I liked online, then went to the paint store and took the paint cards for all of them. Some of them looked so different in the store, I never would have picked them up, so I'm glad I had done research before. Then I taped them all up on the wall. Some I could remove immediately but any maybes I left up and came back to look at again and again. Then once I had it narrowed down to a couple I got the sample cans and painted on the wall or a poster board. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711413 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:15:52 +0000 threeplusme 2711413@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've tried most of the BM colors everyone is suggesting and my advice is to do test swatches. I though I'd love revere pewter since it's so popular but it looked slightly purple in our rooms. I went with Edgecombe gray but also like Stonington gray too. I painted my kids rooms with behr colors I'd used before and found that he Behr covered better than the BM. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711410 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:59:46 +0000 milano14 2711410@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just painted BM Balboa Mist in our kitchen, really loving it. It will also be painted in our front hall that leads to the kitchen. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711405 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:53:19 +0000 looch 2711405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I picked out a color by Benjamin Moore that no one ever knows, it's called Sea Salt. It's greige, not to be confused with the Sherwin Williams color of the same name.</p> <p>I really wanted something bolder, but we didn't have any furniture and I didn't want it to be too dated. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711391 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:32:45 +0000 brownepiano 2711391@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hate neutrals so I had a really hard time picking one! We wound up with Behr's Light French Grey. It looks blue in some light and gray in others. Overall it is light enough to not be overwhelming but dark enough to look like there is color on the walls.<br /> Our accent color is Mammoth mountain. It is bright and balances well with all the wood, tile, and carpet colors. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711387 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:24:56 +0000 StrawberryBee 2711387@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sea Salt by Sherwin Williams, and I think Silver Sage by Restoration Hardware (can is at home). I've also used Revere Pewter with success. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711383 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:16:19 +0000 avivoca 2711383@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not a huge fan of greige/beige paint, so I don't have any recommendations for that. But my favorite color is Palladian Blue from Benjamin Moore. My living room and hallway is painted this color and I have a dark brown accent wall in my living room (BM Rural Earth). I'm planning to paint my kitchen Palladian Blue as well. My cabinets are white up top and oak on the bottom. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711380 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:10:04 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2711380@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is a secondary swatch wall in our house. Balboa Mist at the top, then Pale Oak, then a non BM white color, then Revere Pewter. The left white is Swiss Coffee and the right is White Dove.</p> <p>@PinkElephant: interesting you say that. I just picked up Grey Owl sample for my son's room. I have Revere Pewter and Pale Oak swatches on his wall and it didn't feel right. I'm probably going to use Balboa Mist in the second guest bathroom, which is a Jack &amp; Jill. If we have more kids I doubt I will need to change the color. It's so good!</p> <p>[attach=3033/17/omx0wt.337x600.14896802554091864134669.jpg] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711372 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:00:40 +0000 Foodnerd81 2711372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Another vote for edgecomb gray. We just painted our playroom with it and are about to the the big two story foyer. I have three friends who have used it in their main living areas as well. It really looks different in different lights. Butwehave white trim. With wood trim maybe you would want a little lighter? I also like pale oak and balboa mist from Benjamin Moore. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711366 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:50:15 +0000 PinkElephant 2711366@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: My decorator friend suggested Balboa Mist to us (It wasn't even on my radar) and I LOVE it too - it's almost our whole house, except for areas that needed something a little warmer (Edgecomb Grey in the kitchen) or darker (Revere Pewter in a few bathrooms). I SOOOO wish I'd done balboa in the two bedrooms where I used grey owl! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711365 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:48:58 +0000 PinkElephant 2711365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@josina: My color strip didn't have Revere Pewter grouped with those colors - I like it! A little bit warmer look! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/favorite-interior-paint-colors#post-2711364 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:48:17 +0000 gingerbebe 2711364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We swatched all sorts of gray and had the painters back three times for swatching and grays did not work - it all looked like concrete! I guess it's the lighting. We went with SW Grecian Ivory for our main neutral and SW Poolhouse for our accent. We love it and it works in all our spaces. We have a single story ranch with high ceilings in the main living spaces and master so the accent color is really soothing but gives a nice spark. </p>