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Howdoyaall Like the New Color??

I couldn’t stand the old drab yellow… http://www.flickr.com/photos/39334869@N04/4289892201/in/photostream/ Points for discussion: *DIBS is a jerk *The turquoise vs. a deeper blue *White moldings *Excellent taste in decorating PS I used Glidden true Turquoise that I got from HD. Amazingly it was $15 a gallon and was as good as painting with Benj Moore, Sherwin Williams…

by daveinbedstuy
01/20/2010

I couldn’t stand the old drab yellow…

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Points for discussion:
*DIBS is a jerk
*The turquoise vs. a deeper blue
*White moldings
*Excellent taste in decorating

PS I used Glidden true Turquoise that I got from HD. Amazingly it was $15 a gallon and was as good as painting with Benj Moore, Sherwin Williams or anything else considered higher quality

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Comments

  1. I have a print over my mantel from Kuniyoshi’s Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidô. Does that count as a nude? Hard to tell from your photo exactly how the furnishings work with wall color because of so much backlight from the windows. At same time, that much backlight means your room must have a very warm glow. Enjoy the “new” room…you obviously are. Hats off to you and color experimentation.

  2. Great furniture and great color on the walls but when you put the two put together it sort of clashes? There’s too much going on here. the turquoise blue gives the room an open and airy feel but the furniture tries to make it cozy. There should be a happy medium somewhere. Perhaps more organic neutral pieces? Maybe it’s the lighting in the photo that throws it off and I’m no decorating expert but that’s just my opinion.

  3. “The armchair is a light green and the sofa is a red on maroon wide stripe. The tiles around the fireplace insert are anice soft maroon”

    Turquoise (wall), light green (rmchair), red (sofa), maroon (tile).

    EXACTLY……..
    ROYGBIV! It’s a rainbow of colors.

    But don’t hate me for being honest.

  5. Don’t like “light” furniture. The armchair is a light green and the sofa is a red on maroon wide stripe. The tiles around the fireplace insert are anice soft maroon so the sofa kind of works off that as well. The carpet is pretty neutral and much lighter than the pic.

    You can see the colors much better in the “before” pic in flikr.

    They stay.

  6. ooops, didn’t see all the comments about the furniture. I was busy typing my above post.

    Dave, furniture doesn’t need to match, but it should work with the space and enhance the room.

    Also and I hate to nitpick, but the painting over the fireplace is not centered on the moulding. There’s more wall space above than below. While I typically don’t like things centered, in this case I think it should because there isn’t that much wall space around it, otherwise it looks like a mistake.

    Sorry, I know I’m anal with things like that, but my eye is always drawn to these things.

  7. Looks like a much nicer color than the photo you displayed while the work was in progress which looked more vivid. Furniture does look dark but I think it’s the photo not the reality as I recall from earlier shot.

  8. In my place (I have dark furniture)I used a nice brown, up to and including the wooden moldings, leaving the plaster white, no panel moldings. It gives the subtle illusion of a kind of stretched-out art deco wainscoting.

  9. I LOVE the color!!
    BUT……
    I think the furniture now is completely off. I agree with bxgrl, the furniture is too dark and the wrong colors. I don’t mind the wood pieces, it’s the upholstered ones that are throwing it off. The ‘red’ sofa and the armchair; It has too much green in it’s hue. Some light furniture would be gorgeous.
    Also, I’m not loving the placement of the two paintings to the left of the fireplace. It seems like ‘I have paintings and I have a wall…..plop, up they go’. Try hanging them both in the same ‘picture moulding’, one lower than the other. It might look more dramatic and away from the painting above the mantle, let that one be the stand-out.

    Otherwise, the paint color is beautiful. When are you coming over to help paint my place?

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