[CassieInVa]

I'm finally getting around to painting my interior. I've been living with the golden/yellow from previous owner for a year and still no closer to finding the right color. This is basically for the entire house - all main living will be same color - perhaps slightly darker tone in kitchen to offset granite, etc.

I have dark laminate floors, but tile and granite that must coordinate. I guess it is overall more warm tones, but I don't want it to look gold or yellow or off white.

I feel I want a neutral like on the design shows - doesn't look too tan or too gray - something in the middle that is ,pre warm than cool - like a light taupe. I'm considering Wheat Bread by Behr - but looks a bit cool on sample.

I've been to the paint stores, looked at samples and paint wheels and even painted a few sample boards, but they all seem to come out with green, gray or pink tint. Looking for the perfect warm neutral I guess.

I know there is a lot of painting and redecorating/design that goes on here in The Villages. Please feel free to recommend! I'm going to try to attach a few pics. Thanks!

[kfierle]

If you have a smartphone, the app called Paint Harmony Lite (use the free app) may be a great help in selecting a color. Just take a picture of the room and select from colors in all brands of paint. If you see a color you might like, just tap the picture of your room and it fills in the walls and leaves the furniture. It was a great help to me when deciding what color to paint. I made sure I used the app with pictures taken at different times of the day in order to see how the paint reacted to different light.

I know this does not answer your question, but it might help you select the perfect color.

[CassieInVa]

Wow, thanks I had not heard of this..... going to try it....

[Bjeanj]

Ruth Dyer is a decorator who has a column in Saturday's paper. She has often used paint color Interactive Cream (I think Sherwin-Williams) that seems to coordinate with much decor. You may want to check out that paint sample to see if it fits with what you are looking for.

[Investment Painting Contractors]

Cassie we sent you a PM

[theorem painter]

The only way you are going to know is buy the small paint pots like the ones Sherwin Williams carry. Paint it on a section of your wall and look at it in different lights. Much easier than looking at paint decks.

[CassieInVa]

Sally, I have been doing the paint sample on the wall route, it is just that there are thousands of colors similar to what I'm looking for and was just hoping for specific ones that I could try that have worked for others. It is a process!

[Phanatic Luvr]

Wow, I am NOT a yellow kind of girl but think the colors you have now, compliment everything. I love the faux painting in the kitchen. Just an outsiders opinion of course.
Maybe an Antique White or Vanilla if you want a neutral.

[Investment Painting Contractors]

Cassie Mary and I can show you a whole house that is painted in various shades of taupe, that from looking at your pictures could be a solution. We are just trying to help, there is no charge or obligation. 352-205-8213

[jnieman]

I have something that I will loan you that should help you out. Recently I went to Sherwin Williams and was having a problem choosing. I asked for a booklet of paint colors. Thinking I was just getting a small folder with paint colors. He came out with a huge fan of colors that he gave me. Must have about a thousand or more Sherwin Williams paint swatches in it. If you are interested in borrowing it, email me at jnieman@aol.com. I live in Hadley

[ticotom]

You might consider Sherwin Williams
Navajo White SW 6126
We found it to be a great color you get it at Lowes or Sherwin Willams
You can get a brochure at Lowes in their paint department under their American Heritage color collection.
Hope this helps

[Boomer]

Neutrals are hard for me, too. All those neutral shades have undertones that I don't always think I see.

Sometimes, after I narrow it down, I ask the person who mixes the paint what colors are in the formula. That has helped me several times to better see the undertones, which will determine the color effect that can drive or complement or really mess with a room.

[theorem painter]

Originally Posted by CassieInVa

Sally, I have been doing the paint sample on the wall route, it is just that there are thousands of colors similar to what I'm looking for and was just hoping for specific ones that I could try that have worked for others. It is a process!

Yes, it is definitely a process. First of all I am not a neutral kind of gal. All of the pictures you showed are neutral. Your furniture is beige. Your cabinets are white. Your kitchen furniture is white. You need some color. I would not repaint the faux painting in the kitchen. It is beautiful. I have the same faux painting in the kitchen that I did my self. I painted the rest of the walls a shade of apricot that gives enough interest not to be boring. Remember it is only paint. If you make a mistake, you repaint it. One thing I have learned is never make the decision that you hate it until you have all the furniture back in the room and the pictures hung. You have some blue in your rug. Maybe a coastal blue green like "In Your Eyes" by Benjamin Moore. Good luck. What ever you choose will be great.

[HoosierPa]

We have built and remodeled many homes and been there done that many times. Best way we have found is to walk through decorated models in new home delvelopments and when one of the finished models is just what you like, take out your color wheel and match it up

[Boomer]

This is a long shot, but take a look at Behr's Country Cork.........

I have used this on the highest part of a tray ceiling with Smoked Tan on the walls. In the part that transitions from the walls, I used Greywood. (I wish Greywood had shown up with a little more contrast with the Smoked Tan, but I can live with it.) The effect of the combination is warm but not too yellow. (I was working backwards from an adjoining master bath that had been newly tiled in gray when we bought the house.)

Behr's Country Cork and Smoked Tan worked out really well for me. I had been agonizing over Behr's Coordinated Palettes, online, between trips to the paint department. I was pulling gray and cream and dark wood together. I finally got what works, for me. I bought a wonderful, colorful painting at one of the art shows here. That painting makes a joyful statement above a desk between two windows in the room.

My favorite thing about using shades of neutral is that it is so easy to pop in accesories and art with lots of color.

Well, I think it is way too obvious that I like to talk about decorating. I have been that way since I was a kid and took an antiquing kit to my bedroom furniture, rendering it a hideous shade of olive/avocado green that I thought was beautiful. But, hey, it was the 60s so it was.

Anyway, maybe take a look at Behr's Country Cork.

Earlier in this thread, I said that I sometimes ask the person mixing the paint what is in the formula. I cannot remember exactly, but I think that one was rust and black and a small touch of some version of yellow -- but not much. I might be remembering wrong. I just know Country Cork worked for what I was trying to do because it was not toooooo anything and pulled things together.

Good luck with your choices.

Boomer

PS: I just looked again at your pictures. Country Cork or maybe even Smoked Tan might pull your stainless appliances nicely into the mix with the creams and dark browns. ------ Ohhhhh, I blush but must confess that nosey me is hoping you will let us know how it goes.