Please Help Me with BM Paint Coordination

14 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to read and consider this post.

I am remodeling my bathroom and am going for a quiet look. My house is a little 20's non descript one story farm house. I am going to keep the 20's vibe. Not strictly though.

I want help with my color selection combination.

There will be a 4.5' wainscot. I have very white 4x4 field tile, a baseboard tile, & a chair rail to create this wainscot. There will be a 6" listello of marble 2x4 in running bond, just below the chair rail. The ceilings are 7', kind of a cute height. I am going for an old fashioned seaside spa look :) This room has one east facing window. It is a fairly bright room for the most part. With the white tile it should stay fairly bright I would think.

Other finishes will be:

1. chrome faucets and sconces. Have not decided on color of mirror dark or chrome.

2. Soapstone counter and sink with veining that will be a mossy green mixed in with white and of course the base color of dark gray.

3. Blackish slate flooring.

4. Kohler cast iron tub in Sea Salt. A basically white finish with depths of cream. Looks fabulous with my marble listello and the soapstone veining.

5. The marble has tiles that are rather a mix of very soft colors - gray, whitish, tannish, extremely light green, striated of all colors. Many of the tiles almost look like a white onyx.

As I played around with illustrator drawing up 2 of my walls I settled on these colors as in the drawing. I realize that computer screens are different. I know that if I printed this out, that the color would be different, it always is :/

Sink wall:

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Toilet wall:

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I like the layering of these pastels but would like your input. Especially if you have experience with these choices.

I have not determined where these choices will go but here are my ideas. These are all BM colors:

1. misty memories

2. beacon gray

3. sea life

4. sweet innocence (opps not on picture)

5. seashell (BM OC-120) not on pic but is an off white, use as accessory color - as in objects in the room.

Swatches that might work:

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What do you think of using 3 pastels in one room - one for the walls, one for the sink base, and one for the other built in cabinets. Then a 4th color that will be a deep intense color for the cabinet next to the toilet. The drawn images I hope sort of show what I am talking about.

I hope I've caught someones attention with all this color talk!

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Comments (4)

juliekcmo
14 years ago
As someone with a 1930s house with lilac and baby pink tile and white fixtures...I can tell you that when theoretically colors go together....in reality things can look pretty busy pretty quickly in these small bathrooms.

I like your permanent fixture choices very much. (I am jealous)

If that were my space, I would do glacier blue on the walls, white on ceilings and trim, and the sea life of similar slate color OR a glossy creamy color, on the wood cabinets.

Can you paint 1 thing at a time and then decide on the next?
enduring
Original Author
14 years ago
Juliekcmo, thanks, I like the Glacier Blue too, but darn that is the one blue on my swatch board above that I don't have in real life. I was thinking of buying a sample. The last thing I want is for this to get busy:) I could wait for some things to be installed before the painting. But I wanted the sink base painted in the shop. The other cabinets could wait.

What does this sound like?:

First Color: I am going to paint the ceiling & trim that same as the upper walls, one of the very light bluish to periwinkle gray colors mentioned above.

Second Color: There will be a lot of white with the tile.

Third Color: A light tone for the Sink base, dark tone for the tall standing cab that is on the same color card. I am leaning to the Sea Life for the dark, so that means the sink would be Misty Memories.

Fourth Color Idea: To paint the 2 other built-in's, (the one at the tub, and to the right of sink) in another light grayish color.
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thefoxesnest
14 years ago
Misty Memories - walls & ceiling,

Sea Life base of sink & built in beside sink.

Amethyst shadow or Irises built in beside tub.

You could also ask them to darken what color you choose for the wall and use that to paint the sink and built in beside the sink.

I would keep the sink and built in beside the sink the same color and paint the built in that 'stands alone' the pop of color. And if you consider that option I keep going back to that Midnight Navy for the pop of color piece.
enduring
Original Author
14 years ago
Fox, that navy is very nice isn't it.

Misty Memories and Sea life are on the same card.

The Irises and Amathyst are on the same card as Violet Mist, this group is a little more periwinkle - grayed down.

In my head, and on my painted sample boards, I like Misty Memories with the Violet Mist but they almost read the same when you squint your eyes. Misty is more lavender and Violet Mist is more bluish.

Something that I forgot to do in my drawings was to put a black floor in. That may be a game changer. I typically like contrast but in this bath I was trying for foggy blendy colors, while adding variety amongst the grayed blues and lavenders in the color wheel.

Here is my drawing with a black slate floor:
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