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Help with painting my condo

12 years ago
We are painting our two floor condo. My house isn't very modern but I love the modern contemporary look. We have tons of windows in the two bedrooms upstairs and also in the kitchen and LR. However our installed lighting isn't very Bright. High ceilings on the stairwell leading up to the two bedrooms and two full baths. So I've decided to paint the kitchen in silver mist with ebony black stain on the cabinets and dove white for ceiling, trims, doors and baseboards. Heather gray is the choice for the LR, hallway, foyer. I'm thinking if going a bit darker in the bathroom by using Kendall Gray n staining the current vanity in ebony black as well. The banister will be stained the same ebony black and when we are ready to install hardwood floors they will be a darker ebony color as well. My question is if I should do all three bathrooms the same darker gray and the bedrooms the heather gray? Or should I do other shades if gray or entirely diff. Colors all together? I'm afraid of using too many colors in my 1,300 sq. ft condo. I want a more uniformed look. Thoughts? Suggestions on colors? My bathrooms don't have windows and are not very big. Thanks.

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  • 12 years ago
    Do not be affraid of different colors. If you want them too look good together, you can alwayd add decoration/window treatments that match. Personally I like big colored surfaces, so I'm painting all the woodwork offwhite, to have some coherence throughout.
  • 12 years ago
    Thanks. So are you saying dint go with all grays? If I had a house I would be open to doing different colors in diff. Rooms but I feel in a condo if I stuck with one color it will look nicer. I can add different colors in each room through paintings, curtains etc. and I'm super confused as to which colors to pick to paint. Any color suggestions for BR and bathrooms? Thnx
  • 12 years ago
    If you do different Colors make sure you use transitional Colors... Pick a color scheme (complementary, analogous, etc) then from those select Colors pick different shades and tints (darker or lighter versions) of that color to carry throughout the space.
  • 12 years ago
    last modified: 12 years ago
    Haha, no, only my bathroom has pale grey walls. Our bedroom is offwhite with a pale tan ceiling and oat curtains, calm and serene. Our hallways now have white concrete enamel 'wainscoting', the upper half is yellow downstairs and teal upstairs, the upper half on the stairs' wall pale tan (that wall was too huge for a bold color). The powder room is seablue halfway up. And our livingroom and kitchen will be white and the open dining dark olive (only has two walls). The white trim, ceiling and doors give a fresh touch to it and the pine floors make it look friendly. Note: our house has two floors, each 6x6meters.
  • 12 years ago
    Wow that's a lot if colors. If I knew how to work with colors I think I would. For now I'm sticking with the gray family of colors.
  • 12 years ago
    I would pick 2 gray colors from the same paint sample - a lighter and a darker one. The gray will look different in each room anyway, but still go together. Colors appear different because of lighting (both natural and artificial) throughout the day, and the other items in the room. You can still use different colors for accents in each room.

    If you go with too many different grays to begin with, you will really notice how different they are - I would find that distracting if it were in my home.
  • 12 years ago
    On my search on here for BM Kendall this is what I found.
    Not sure if it fits in your style, but maybe it will inspire.

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  • 12 years ago
    Same goes for BM Heather:
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  • 12 years ago
    It would be lovely to add some warmer and/or cooler greys.
    Brown, beige, blue, eggplant, offwhites (powder pink, champagne).
    What color are the tiles?

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  • 12 years ago
    Dclostboy the color mineral ice, is it gray and does it stay gray after its been out on the walls? I'm asking because my grays that have been applied to the kitchen and LR so far look more blue. I really wanted a gray but I guess I'll have to live with it now. Please let me know so I can start coloring my bedroom that color. Thanks!
  • 12 years ago
    It really does depend on the light in the room, but always worked for me. This is it in my bedroom.
  • 12 years ago
    I love the stencil work on your accent wall dclostboy.
  • 12 years ago
    Thanks...it's subtle...like I try to be :)
  • 12 years ago
    You should check out BM Edgecomb Gray. Great neutral color!
  • 12 years ago
    How did you do the stencil work? Was it hard? How long did it take and where did you get the stencils from?
  • 12 years ago
    Stencils from etsy.com (OMGSTENCILS). Comes with directions. Hardest part is figuring out where to start on the wall and then taking the time to line everything up.
  • 12 years ago
    last modified: 12 years ago
    Thank you. Here's a pic of my kitchen after the walls and cabinets were painted
  • 12 years ago
    The stencil walls can be beautiful. For a lovely neutral. paint the walls BM collingwood in a matte finish with the stencil painted pearlessence, (a pearl color). It is beautiful and looks just like wall paper. Using a fairley large stencil on one focal wall can really make a statement and set the style for the rest of your bedroom. This technique is very pretty in a bathroom as well.
  • 12 years ago
    Aditi: The paint color in your kitchen looks very blue in the picture giving the kitchen a kind of drab look. Can you panel your dishwasher, the white really stands out. Perhaps you are planning to tile the back wall between counter top and upper cabinets??? A tile in black, grey and stainless steel would work beautifully.
  • 12 years ago
    The dishwasher is actually stainless steel. The light is making it look white. Back splash is coming and I'm thinking silver.