justme824 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 After reading through the comments on my last post I did some more searching and I think I love this color even more than the first. What do you think? http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-color/rendezvousbay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emcap Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I didn't see the last post and don't know what this is for ( I'll have to go look), but I just had to say that color is gorgeous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justme824 Posted January 5, 2013 Author Share Posted January 5, 2013 I didn't see the last post and don't know what this is for ( I'll have to go look), but I just had to say that color is gorgeous! I guess I should have linked to that one... I am on a quest to add color to my house. I'll be starting with our photo wall, which about 20 feet long. I'm painting the wall and changing my now b&w photos to color, and adding some fun color with wall art prints I found on Etsy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuirkyKapers Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara R Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 It's a lovely color. I will warn you that you have no idea what a color looks like until you get a big sample of it painted on your walls. Home Depot and Lowes sells little sample pots of paint for about $3. They can color match to Benjamin Moore paints (or you can get the samples from Benjamin Moore for about $6). The way a color looks varies so much with the light. I used Gray Wisp (very close to Restoration Hardware Silver Sage) throughout my main living areas. I tried that color in the bathroom and it looked super dark, like teal. So I tried the gray with taupe undertones I had in the bedroom, Seattle Mist. That looked just taupe in the bathroom, no gray. After about 6 other samples, I finally found Sea Salt. Even though Sea Salt is much lighter than Gray Wisp, people think the bathroom is painted with the same paint as the rest of house, because the color reads as the same blue-green-gray. So try out samples. Paint them either on big pieces of cardboard or directly on the wall, if you are sure to be repainting soon. And don't be afraid to try out a bunch while you figure out what works! Colorcharts.org was super useful to me while picking out paint colors. It will tell you what paint colors from different brands are the same or very similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kroe1 Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 That color is lovely. Benjamin Moore is, by far, my favorite brand of paint. Another idea for you: instead of throwing out your old black and whites, try painting a shimmery border in a translucent paint. Paint your old black frames white. You can also flick some color on the frames and photos. Another idea is to cut out some things on the black and whites and mount it to canvas. Then paint in between the white spaces and a little up on the edges of the cut outs. That kind of art work is much more fun than what one can buy in a store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Pretty! you can't go wrong with Benjamin Moore. Well, you probably CAN, but I haven't yet :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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