![]() ![]() The moulding color will be accentuated and nothing will really look harmonious or like it was intentional. I’m here to tell you that is just super hard to find and not likely going to make you happy. They think they just need to find that one magic color that will tie it all together and make it all gray and beautiful. And all this time I thought I would have more time come summer.Now, most people want to go cool light gray and keep all their pinky-beige or yellow toned mouldings and trim. I have the paint to paint my daughter’s room (same color) but I haven’t had a spare second since school let out. That’s the method to the paint selection madness. I love this color! It looks really beige in some light, but other times it looks gray. ![]() If you look across all the pictures the Accessible Beige looks a little different in each one. Here’s a shot of the freshly painted door and baseboards and the freshly painted walls. It’s the only room in the house that looks brand new and pretty.Īnd don’t you just love the X Do Not Enter tape on the door? That’s my son’s contribution to the room. Sometimes when I’m feeling overwhelmed in this house because of all the wild paint colors going on, I will just go stand in my son’s room and stare at the walls. The room still needs a lot more decorating, but at least I have nice clean neutral walls now. Side note: Satin on the walls, flat on the ceiling.Īnd now, the “after”. I got the paint and primer in one for the ceiling too. I didn’t take any pictures of it but I used my always-go-to-white-color Alabaster in a flat finish. Half finished… Already looking so much fresher.Īt this point I realized that there was lots of purple paint around the top edge of the wall and onto the ceiling so I took a break from the beige and painted the entire ceiling. Previous owner, step away from the tween boy band posters and put the thumb tacks down. I had to putty probably 500 little holes in the wall. Okay, so I don’t know who lived in this room before my son, but whoever it was sure loved thumbtacks. Try to overlook all the piles of crap everywhere. ![]() Here’s the before picture:Īnd one more before. I painted the entire room with only one gallon of paint. ![]() Also, because this room is so… … I bought the paint and primer in one which is ah-mazing. After a few days I settled on Accessible Beige (third one down in the left column). I moved it to several different rooms and looked at it in several different lights. I came home and painted each one onto a poster board and hung it on the wall. Once I had my 8 colors selected I headed to Sherwin Williams and purchased 8 sample containers of paint – one in each color. I pinned all my favorite rooms and colors onto my own pinterest board. In no time flat I had narrowed it down to 8 colors that I really liked. Most awesome resource ever! I just searched each color of paint and got pages of walls and homes that had used that color. After I narrowed it down to about 20 colors I headed over to Pinterest. I own a Sherwin Williams paint chip deck (you can buy them from SW) so I just pulled out any grays that caught my eye. That way I will always get the exact color I want and the sheen will always be a perfect match. So I decided in this house that I am just going to use Sherwin Williams exclusively. (To answer the obvious question here, I color-matched because one brand I used was discontinued, another was sent to me by a vendor and I couldn’t find it in Austin, etc). Even if the color is spot-on, when you color match to a different brand the sheen will never be a perfect match. Also, I used a variety of paint brands in my old house, and had problems trying to color-match paints when I needed another gallon. (I am not affiliated.) I chose them because I really like their paint (like, a lot). What brand? Well, I have tried so many brands of paint, and they all have their place. Maybe some of these motions I went through will help you out when trying to chose the perfect gray-ish beige-ish. Here’s the method to my paint picking madness. That in itself can make one go completely cray-cray. Okay, so I knew I wanted a greige color (gray-ish beige-ish) but which one? Picking paint is hard, y’all! First off, you have to decide what brand to use. But at least one room is looking really fly now. I have purchased the paint and the boy’s room is done-zoe. ![]()
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