favorite orange paint?

18 years ago

I'm contemplating painting 2 walls in my bathroom orange, but have a hard time with swatches. The room is very large and bright, tall slanted ceilings, one corner over the tub has 3 skylights. There is extensive cabinetry on the 2 walls I'm thinking of painting, so the paint surface won't be too much in your face. The rest, I plan to paint white. I'm covering the existing grey formica euro cabinets with a medium amber bamboo laminate. I'm also trying to decide whether the new countertops should be a gold/beige or a rusty red - they'll be concrete.

I'll post a pic later when I locate my cable. But meanwhile, if you have good experience with orange, next to a warm medium wood tone, I'd be grateful for pics and swatch names. One day I think of shocking orange, the next day I want something brownish and muted. I'm also contemplating something more red.

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ttodd
18 years ago
I've seen pics of EK Pumpkin and it is really pretty. Very earthy. Someone that posts on this board has a room or hallway done in it w/ lots of white. Can't remember who it is but it looks great.
rmkitchen
18 years ago
I love orange rooms! Our current house is one of those where so many of the rooms open on to one another so I can't really figure out a feasible spot ... and it makes me so sad.

In our previous house we had a burnt orange foyer:

I lightened the tansu so that's what's "off" in the photo.

Every time I entered that house it made me feel happy. Every time.

I had that color custom mixed but wouldn't you know, Aura has a color that is a match! It is a gorgeous, warm, sophisticated and subdued orange. Buttered Yam AF-230.
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jyyanks
18 years ago
I don't know if this counts as orange next to a warm wood tone but here is SW Baked Clay against my Maple kitchen cabinets.
amsunshine
18 years ago
No photos at the moment, but I love Benjamin Moore's Pumpkin Patch. We have it on our dining room accent wall.
mahatmacat1
18 years ago
EK Carnelian is pretty fabulous--it's in that hot orange-red nexus...one of the last pics in her gallery, painted on a gallery wall, actually.
sojay
Original Author
18 years ago
Thanks for all your feedback. I've decided on 'tropical orange' from BM. I'll post pics when I'm done. Thanks again.