I have always heard that grays and creams are some of the
hardest paint colors to pick. I’ve
decided I might just concur with that!
Actually, I had some pretty specific criteria in mind when I first
decided that a shade of gray was in order, but the most important was that it
needed to go with my husband’s collegiate colors; K-State purple. I know I may sound a little nutty when I say
this, but after seeing this purple against one of the neutrals shades of paint
we have in our home, in my husband’s temporary “man heaven”, I decided that we
had to do much better in our basement.
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| Temporary Man Heaven |
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| The pennant gives you a little idea of the purple on our tan/neutral... |
I specifically was hoping for a blue-silver-gray color, one
that would read in a way that didn’t feel too…sterile (as gray’s so often can). I landed on three potential candidates from
Benjamin Moore.
Gull Wing Gray
Shadow Gray
Fusion
Fusion does read more brown than blue-gray, but I did (and
do) love it. Ultimately, I ruled it out
because of how similar it was to the color in our upstairs living room (Sherwin
Williams-Portabella). Besides, a gal
needs to branch out now and then, right?
Right! Maybe. Can I sleep on it?
After BT (my great husband) and I finished painting the
basement, I took a long pause and tried to keep myself from panicking that I
had chosen the wrong color. When the
paint was wet, there were moments where I swear it read as periwinkle. I don’t like periwinkle, in fact, I
absolutely hate periwinkle!
After a night of running up and down the stairs and
obsessively staring at our walls, I’m happy to report that our walls are not
periwinkle! In fact, it’s actually a
really pretty shade of blue-silver-gray and it passed the K-State purple test
with flying colors. It also pops nicely
with the white trim and doors.
It must have been those gray, cement floors throwing me
off. Or, too many paint fumes…but either
way, Shadow Gray is here to stay!
Enjoy the rest of this beautiful weekend; it's gorgeous outside! In fact, I might go look at some flowers for our outside planters...
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| Stairwell to the basement |
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| This will become the TV wall; placeholders for speakers! |
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| Left corner will become a bar area |
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| Pardon our mess; freshly painted baseboards! |
