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Help with coordinating house paint colors

6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago

Can someone help me with a coordinating paint color(s) for BM Baby Fawn walls and SW Pure White doors and trim? I would like to paint some other rooms different colors but want the house to still feel cohesive. Thanks!

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  • 6 years ago

    With Baby Fawn and Pure White the world is your oyster. There are few colors that don't work well with beige and white.


    To make a home cohesive you want something that ties each room to the next. Generally I keep my wall colors softer, more subdued and use fabrics, art and accents to bring in additional color, but you don't have to have all neutral walls and definitely don't have to have every room painted with one neutral color.


    Think of it like you coordinate a mix and match wardrobe. Tan skirt, white belt, what color shirt would you wear?


    Your home should reflect the colors that you love, so telling you what colors to add is difficult without knowing you.


    I like the website http://paletton.com to help visualize color combinations. It is a a color wheel where you can enter a color code and play with different combinations of color to figure out what you like. Often helps get someone started down a good path.


    I plugged in the color code for baby fawn and pulled a couple of screen shots.

    Got the color code from EasyRGB.com - also gives you some palette choices.


    D8D1C3




    allie2020 thanked Jennifer Hogan
  • 6 years ago

    Don't forget to consider other things that must stay - furniture, flooring, fireplace, bathroom vanities, art - anything you love and anything you can't afford or do not want to replace.



    allie2020 thanked Jennifer Hogan
  • 6 years ago

    Thank you both!

  • 6 years ago

    Do you know what colors make your heart sing?


    When I look through the things I have bought and things that I love there are a couple of themes.


    My closet shows that I own a lot of really clean bright colors that I wear in the summer (coral, lime, fuchsia, lemon yellow) and I also own a lot of purples, teals, deep reds, jeans, some white, cream, black, gray, no tan or brown and more taupe, white and cream than any other neutral. Yes I have a more colorful wardrobe than many.


    If I look at the things I treasure (art, vases, things) I see that my affinity for purples, reds, teals is obvious.




    In my home I have slate flooring in my foyer, which is purple/red/green slate (one of the things I fell in love with when I bought the house).




    When I picked the flooring, tile, paint colors for the rest of the house I worked with the things that I own and the things that I love to select colors.





    I am still renovating, so I am tweaking things as I go, but here is the picture of color selections with my flooring and art.




  • 6 years ago

    If you share pics of things you love we can probably help build a color palette.

  • 6 years ago

    I really love the colors blue, green plants, white, natural wood, dusty rose and black. That's what I see when I look around my house. I'll take some pictures of my favorite things. I was thinking of painting the front interior of my door BM Van Courtland Blue based off the info you provided.

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  • 6 years ago

    How beautiful! I love your colors.

    I like these colors with your colors.


    You should always test in your own space, computers are not great for color accuracy.



  • 6 years ago

    I often will do a bedroom in one color and the bathroom just one shade darker or lighter.


    allie2020 thanked Jennifer Hogan