Howdy,
The lamp has taken a backseat for a few days while I get some work done, so I thought I would fill you in on our living room colour choices. Here’s the living room before, which was lovely but as I’m a serial “cool colours gal”, not quite right for me!
We started out by painting the ceilings and window tops with some white ceiling paint from Ace, which despite the poor reviews on the website worked just fine for us!
This is the first time I have really had the chance to play with paint colours, so we wondered down the road to get some paint testers. We knew we wanted something light and airy, so we popped down to our local Ace to look at the Clarke+Kensington collection of off-white colours.
We started out with Bone White CW-W2 and Swiss Coffee CW-W3, both on the cooler side of things. I can’t seem to find any pics of them online, so here’s the testers on the wall.
They came out a little dark in the photo, but on the wall bone white seemed dirty and swiss coffee seemed very bright and yellowy – very white.
After a few days of angst, we came to realise that we liked neither of them, and ended up randomly choosing an off white Benjamin Moore colour that we both liked on the swatch………Benjamin Moore’s Pale Oak OC-20.
Here’s the finished result – what do you think?
Benjamin moore Pale Oak vs the old colour
Its a soft browny cream colour
This is a fair depiction of the colour against the white window top
It really shows off the floor :)
Its a really close match to the swatch for anyone trying to work out the colour on their own walls
The other outcome of all of this is that I discovered the full range of Benjamin Moore colours… expect me to be more adventurous with future rooms!
Benjamin Moore – Ace will lend you their swatches!
Xx
PS This is the second part of this post
Old Pine House 