4th time painting

Is 4 times of painting enough to get the color right? This post is about what I think are the finally final living room & kitchen/hall colors, after trying at least four colors per room over the last year and a half. In these pictures that follow, apologies for the mess everywhere but the walls. It will be a couple weeks before I clean these rooms up.


Living Room


Below, I’ve repainted a shade darker than in the previous post. Butterscotch Candy above chair rail, Autumn Gold beneath chair rail. The colors were formulated to go together. They are adjacent in the Ace Hardware brand color series. The effect is sturdy but informal. Finally a room you just want to sink into. After I clean up and move some furniture around.

Darker photoshop version below.

Kitchen, round 4

Above the kitchen/hallway wainscoting, the color is Bedford Brown (Behr paints). It’s reddish brown but looks and feels purple. I’m going for the feel of an old, plush, bustling resort kitchen. A balance of formality, liveliness, and utility. Repose and busyness. Light but dark. Warm but cool. Yin but yang. Perfect. Under the new shelf/coat rack, is painted the next darker shade in the Behr series (Clay Ridge). The ideas for the hallway shelf, and chair rail style and high baseboards in living room, certainly might be recognizable in an early farmhouse on the Cape. I hope you notice that the Brimfield doors were made for these colors. I don’t think the track lighting goes with the style, but the lights might blend in better once I put in shelves or tilt-out bins on part of that large section of bare wall. Apologies for the mess on the table.