Color Palate

    While these are not the only colors in our home…they served as our jump off palate.  I wanted the rooms in our home to blend with one another…the prominent color from one room would become the back ground or accent color in the adjoining room and beyond.  I love clear autumn coloring and wanted to bring it into our home.  I chose these cards from the Martha Stewart’s Every Day paint collection once available through Sears and K-mart (you may still find Martha Stewart paint through Lowe’s … and if you have any old Every Day paint chips, Home Depot has the Martha Stewart formulas for an exact match). 

The second red shown is Martha Stewarts’ Red Brickand now adorns my kitchen walls.  The color is a bit more Terra-cotta than appears on-line, but without crossing into the orange-orange arena.  The color to it’s immediate right is called Georgia Beach…and is a light ash with a slight green hue.  Georgia Beach is what we chose for the trim in both our foyer and our front room, both of which gives a straight shot into the kitchen itself.  The foyer’s wall is the first off white, called Muslin.  It’s just white enough to look fresh, clean and untainted without also giving that bright hospital glare.  Very soft and it looks wonderful with the Georgia Beach.   Our middle room is painted Westport Green (second to the last color shown) and we were so surprised for it to take the shade it did on our walls…the perfect winter green…which played off beautifully against my orange cedar “October-fest” style kitchen table (turned library table) and our floor-to-ceiling bookshelves stained Chinese Red.  These shades of red are mimicked as the predominate color within the kitchen, as we’ve already shared.  We calm the red down a bit with one of Martha Stewart’s whites – which looks more like perpetual spring morning light.  I don’t have the name, or the chip scanned…but I believe the call number was H18.

~ by tookshire on October 5, 2007.