Home Design: Paint Colors

Paint hunting went underway yesterday!

INTERIOR PAINT

I picked out interior and exterior mostly within a day!  Hurray.  Our builder uses Sherwin Williams paints and online they have a fun program where you can select colors you like and they will pull up coordinating colors.  You can save the color pallets you like and label them with a name.  This is a good way to keep track of what you painted in what room for touch ups!
 
After going into the store, taking the swatches to the house, and approving everything with the hubby, I played around online as well.  Here are the colors I have chosen...I couldn't save just the individual colors, so just focus on the main color for each grouping of 3.
 

Coordinating schemes

Evening Shadow Main Color: Evening Shadow 2 7662 Coordinating 1: Mauve Finery 2 6282 Coordinating 2: Ibis White 2 7000 Zircon Main Color: Zircon 2 7667 Coordinating 1: River Rouge 2 6026 Coordinating 2: Chaise Mauve 2 6016 Windfresh White Main Color: Windfresh White 2 7628 Coordinating 1: Rose Embroidery 2 6297 Coordinating 2: Folkstone 2 6005 Tea Light Main Color: Tea Light 2 7681 Coordinating 1: Relic Bronze 2 6132 Coordinating 2: Stonebriar 2 7693 Blue Horizon Main Color: Blue Horizon 2 6497 Coordinating 1: Deep Sea Dive 2 7618 Coordinating 2: Gray Clouds 2 7658 Westhighland White Main Color: Westhighland White 2 7566 Coordinating 1: Breathtaking 2 6814 Coordinating 2: Auric 2 6692 Extra White Main Color: Extra White 2 7006 Coordinating 1: Tranquil Aqua 2 7611 Coordinating 2: Golden Gate 2 7679 Reflection Main Color: Reflection 2 7661 Coordinating 1: Solitude 2 6535 Coordinating 2: Rock Candy 2 6231

Most of the colors we are choosing are greys and whites. 

Online, Tea Light looks more peachy biege to me...it's actually a warm light yellow.  I will be using this color in part of our upstairs loft to create a cozy vibe! 

The Blue Horizon will be in our guest bathroom because I like to do that room more vintage coastal.

Our master is the Evening Shadow which is a really pretty medium-light grey with a slight touch of blue. 

Our office/craft room upstairs will be usign the Zircon which is a medium-light grey.

The Great Room will be the Windfresh white which is a light grey with a touch of warmth to it.  I thought it would look nice with our white hearth.

Accent walls and ceilings will almost all be the Westhighland White.  We have a pretty dark 1/2 bath so I am going with the Extra White for that.

EXTERIOR PAINT

 

I was so excited to share this with you, because I created this picture on Sherwin Williams' website.  You pick the colors you like and they will put it into a picture for you.  You can choose the style of home (this is most like ours), and the main color.  They will make a recommendation of a color palate, but you can apply those colors to the specific parts of the house.  You can also pick a different color and drag it to replace a color on the pallet you don't like!! So fun!

So the main color is Anew Gray that will will be going with for our house.  The gray looks a little lighter then we think it will probably turn out. We will be doing a white carrage style garage door.  I am doing white trim and white HardieShingle accent on all the dormers and entry (not the light blue).  I put the light blue on there for you to see what I am painting our front door.  I couldn't select the front door because you can't even see it.  What do you think?  My decision was inspired by the picture at the top of this blog which I found on Pintrest.  

 

I'll be posting updates on the house soon, it is starting to look lots different!

 

Sweet & Simple.

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