I painted it a nice rich medium blue (oarsman blue behr) which looks great with the furniture and fireplace and gold frame accents… But stands out like a sore thumb against the rest of the main floor. To complicate matters its a sunken family room and is open to the rest of the main floor thats already neutral. (we have the same colour in the living/dining room and its way more gray and i love it there!) The sofas in the family room and curtains are all taupe/greige so the brick really stands out. The room was painted edgecomb gray when we moved in but really pulled a yellow from the floor. We have golden oak floors and it has a darker warm brown with blackish brick fireplace right smack in the middle of the room. Im having the hardest time with our family room. Keep reading for my favorite light gray paint colors for walls… These are my go-to, warm, light gray paint colors and my starting point in just about any room where I know I’m not doing a color or a beige. We discussed painting the cabinets ivory to better coordinate with the cottage style the client prefers. We eventually settled on three options for the living area that were all warm grays and then three options for blue-greens in the kitchen and dining area.
Plus, the white of the foam keeps the existing wall color from distorting the color of the swatches. I like to tape the loose swatches to the foam core and then move the foam core around the room. I also brought drafting tape and a piece of white foam core. I brought my Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore paint decks along with loose swatches of some of my favorite colors. The fixed finishes were all over the place, and the gray they’d picked was too cool to coordinate with any of them. The builder had used a pretty stone on the fireplace with warm gray undertones, tan carpeting, medium dark wood floors (not too red, which was good), espresso colored cabinets, and then granite countertops that were mostly gold with flecks of burgundy.
Her instincts were right, and I could definitely see how she’d had trouble selecting the right paint color. The home had been a builder spec home in a new development, and the client had re-painted when they moved in but felt the color, which was a very cool blue-gray, wasn’t quite right.
The other day I did a consult with a client to select paint colors for her open living room / dining room / kitchen. It’s very important to read through the descriptions so that you can understand the undertone of each color and how it might work in your home. In this post, I’ve rounded up some of my top choices from both Benjamin Moore and Sherwin Williams. The gray paint trend is still going strong, and I am often asked about my favorite light gray paint colors for walls.
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