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Need advice for a mudroom update

7 years ago

I desperatly want to update my mudroom. I was thinking of chalk painting the furniture white and painting the walls a grey/grayish color. All the doors and molding in that room are white and there is a lot of natural light. I realy like how the paint BM gray bunny looks by swatching.. It’s a nice gray but it does have a slight blue cast to it. i Would like my house to flow together because there is a pocket door between my kitchen and mudroom that is always open but I’m wondering if any update to the mudr area will really make it stand out and not flow with the kitchen area. My kitchen is outdated by today’s standards as it was built in 2000 and has natural wood cabnits and a dining room table the same orangy wood color. The paint in the kitchen is creme with a slight yellow cast. Any advice on what I could do to updat? Do the two rooms need to flow togethe? And if so how do I achieve that? Thank you!

Comments (11)

  • 7 years ago

    Could you post some pictures, please, so that we can get an idea of what you're working with?

  • 7 years ago

    Sure. The paint on the right is Balboa Mist and the one on the left is Agreeable gray. I chose these colors because they had a warmth to them I think I may need because my entire house has a craftsman style and the kitchen paint is a creme which I won’t be changing for a while. Keep in mind that the wood furniture will be painted white soon. What do you think?

  • 7 years ago

    I vote for agreeable gray. It’s warmer and works with your floor.

    amandaf24 thanked oaktonmom
  • 7 years ago

    Thank you for your advice. I really do feel like I’m stuck in 1999. I don’t have any grey walls in my house at all except gray owl in the bathroom which is joined to this mudroom. Maybe it’s the yellow color of this wall that I really dislike. It tends to turn super yellow when the lights are on at night.

  • 7 years ago

    From another angle.

  • 7 years ago

    The mudroom opens up into the kitchen powder room, garage, back door, laundry room and a closet. There are actually 6 doors in this small mudroom. The bathroom is owl gray which I do love in the daylight but it has a slight green cast at night. Any recommendations for the laundry room paint? I’d like it to flow with the a greige or gray. I was thinking of going a bit lighter it’s currently white

  • 7 years ago

    You are so lucky to have all that beautiful natural light streaming into your space! Pretty much any colour you pick will come alive on your walls. Yellow is a tricky colour to get right and on my screens (checked your pics on my phone as well), your yellow is perfect. Do you recall the brand and name?

    I can understand wanting a change and I was going to recommend white rather than gray or greige in your mudroom. Something like BM Simply White or Snowfall White would go well with your floors.

    If you find your yellow too yellow at night, perhaps you need to look at changing your bulbs? I find lighting has gotten so tricky now with LEDs bulbs and we've been futzing a lot with getting it right in our rooms with the season change.

    amandaf24 thanked tartanmeup
  • 7 years ago

    I will find the paint color for you. It’s a Benjamin Moore color that is lighter than horthorn yellow. I might have been onboard with a white color paint but those walls have been linen white for the last 8 years so I’m really ready for a change here. The walls were recently painted that yellow color (5 months ago) but neither my husband nor I care for it. I didn’t think of changing the bulbs. That’s a great idea. The current bulbs are led. I don’t love the yellow color during the day either. I don’t hate it but I just feel that it looks dated along with the furniture but I’m glad that you appreciate it. I’ve been trying to update my house little by little starting at the back of the house in this area.

  • 7 years ago

    Maybe I should go with a darker paint to liven up. BM Husky in the middle. Do you think it will blend with the cream kitchen paint because mudroom is always visible in the kitchen because of the open pocket door

  • 7 years ago

    Thanks for looking up the paint colour name for me.

    All the bulbs are going to LEDs, I think. You might have 5000Ks installed where you might prefer 4000Ks or 3500Ks instead. Or vice-versa. Playing around with this variable can get annoying but sometimes, it's necessary. We spend so much time trying to find the perfect wall colour and then our light bulbs muck everything up. (Everything seemed simpler with incandescents.)

    I think those greys will go with your cream but I really don't think they'll "liven" up the space. But that's my opinion. It's your home and what matters is what you and your husband like. If you're happy with the cream in your kitchen, have you considered using that in the mudroom?

    There are other colours as well...how about green? :)

    Good luck! I'm sure others will chime in with suggestions. Finding the "right" colour is part of the fun, right?