House COLOR Help ... PLZZZ!

[ChargerGrrl]

Plummy with Cliantro is a great combo- it gets my vote.

Happy Weddding Anniversary, Deco! We celebrated ours last week. Can'' you believe it''s been 3 years?

 

[Cehrabehra]

sweetest guy ever!!!!!! You can''t go wrong with those colors... I like #2 but it is more understated and I''m not sure you''re going for that lol

 

[Tacori E-ring]

Deco, I am officially jealous. What a sweet DH you have! Not only will he let you paint your house purple he was thoughtful and creative enough to match the flowers. Really?!? He is a keeper. I STILL think an orange door would be fab. It''s not like you sit in your rooms with the outside doors open right?

 

[Cehrabehra]

well purple is settled - let's look at all of the options to offset it... I agree that burnt orange would be amazing - but with the purple it may always look like autumn - and maybe that's a good thing! Green would ground it yet be complementary in a fresh and current sort of way - depending on what tones you use for them both (the ONLY thing I recommend is you stick with the same tone for each. The amounts of grey in it have to be complementary - after that almost any option is a good one. Look at white. Clean, fresh, bright... turn it to a creamy or golden color and it might even cross over into mysterious. Blue would... I dunno, I'll let someone else champion blue and red cause neither of those are in the top 2 for me. Nor would I go to the opposite end and paint them orange (maybe that's while I love burnt orange doors, I'm not sure purple would be... but then again it is visually attractive and will definitely pop...

TOUGH CHOICES DECO!!!!!!!! lol

But hey, you got the purple nailed Almost..........

 

[LAJennifer]

Plummy house, Orange door! Plummy house, Orange door! Plummy house, Orange door! (or Cilantro door). But really, Plummy house, Orange door!

 

[decodelighted]

I have 2nd coat photos now ... FWIW it's very overcast out & WWWWWINDY - so windy I had a little oops and marred my prized giganto swatch. Please excuse the sporadic tiny white specks. **sigh**

ETA: On this one I flipped the card over -- so the order is "Plummy" then "Purple Passage" then "Mythical" then "Wood Violet"

 

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Another ... still flipped.

 

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And another ... back to the original order: Wood V, Mythical, Purple P, Plummy

 

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And another.

 

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Last new photo.

 

[iheartscience]

Plummy for sure! Love it!

 

[Mara]

my vote is Mythical.

while Plummy is very pretty and prob my 2nd pick...keep in mind just like painting a room that you are still only looking at a swatch. and while it seems like a big swatch, it's not at all. a house is a huge palette. so all of that purple on one big house will be much darker and more intense than just the swatch of color.

Mythical seems lighter on the swatch but i think when it's all painted it will seem darker and a bit more bold. i think it will be closer to the house you like than the other colors when done.

i also think if you wanted to do a green or red door (personally my vote is for a rich reddish mahogany, they are soooo pretty when done right, i adore our rich wooden door which contrasts nicely with brick) then stay with a *slightly* more muted color for the rest of the house. then again i am not a fan of 'too much primary' all together. i think you need some slightly muted tones to compliment a bold color.

 

[decodelighted]

I love you guys! I''ll be back ... we''re headed out for our anny dinner & a movie. Already late getting ready for that but been in a purple vortex today! LOL!

Personal replys to come -- promise!!! THANKS AGAIN!!!

 

[Erin]

I''m having trouble with the door color which could sway my vote on which purple. I know that''s backwards, but I tend to plan everything first.

 

[joflier]

I like plummy. I think that color will have the best color contrast.

 

[TravelingGal]

Deco, happy annivesary girl! Was thinking of you yesterday when we celebrated ours thinking yours was next to come...how funny is that?

I have not painted the outside of our house, but having just painted the inside, I had the opposite experience as Mara. We chose the swatches because her advice makes sense and I think is in most cases true...swatches will look lighter and less intense than the finished job. But the colors we chose ended up looking so much ligher and diluted once on. Maybe because against the white wall we did the paint samples on, it looked so bright?

I think in your case, it will turn out the way Mara is saying, so I''m with her on the mythical, although I like the plummy color better.

 

[Bal]

Anything but purple...I hate purple houses!

 

[cdt1101]

I love that you are going w/ purple!! So unique! I really like Plummy, but I agree w/ Mara and think you should go w/ Mythical. I think Plummy might be TOO bold a choice on a whole house. And I love the dark red door a few pages back. My second choice would be the cilantro door.

I don''t think you can go wrong w/ any of your options...they all look great!!!

 

[neatfreak]

Date: 10/7/2009 3:36:35 PM
Author: decodelighted

Date: 10/7/2009 3:17:44 PM

Sidenote: purple has always been my favorite color. Every year when they asked me what kind of birthday cake I wanted I'd answer 'purple!' My great grandmother knitted an afghan for me when I was but a wee thing: the colors I requested ... purple & pink. Also: My first word was 'Plum'. Seriously. And DH's pivotal, life-changing job was at a co. whose trademark color was purple. I guess we're purple people.

Life is too short-you NEED a purple house!!! I really love the purple passage...but I honestly think mythical will be bright enough and is closest to your original picture IMO.

I really worry that the darker colors will be too bright on a sunny day.

 

[Mara]

TG...i have that had happen to me too with it coming out lighter. we went light taupe in the townhouse because i didn't want too dark of a color. well it was a bit light because i was afraid to go too dark. also the townhouse got so much light that the color really paled in day.

but when we did green in our office here in the new house, it was a bold enough color that it looked much darker when completed, thankfully i compensated for that. so it seemed like lighter colors with not much depth can easily wash out, but more bold colors with depth to them will look darker. also i think that 'contrast' colors tend to make the primary color look more intense than a complimentary color.

so if deco was doing like a pale yellow or a pale blue or a gray or something i'd say go with a darker swatch, but for purple i def think Mythical.

it almost seems like it may look more like Plummy when done.

one alternative (not to confuse you more deco) but if you absolutely love a color but you think it might be too dark or intense when completed, you can always get something like 80% power of the color to lighten it slightly. i did this for our baby/guest room, in the last house i loved the color so much but it was a bigger room so in the new house i did 80% in a smaller room and it ended up almost the same.

 

[TravelingGal]

Date: 10/7/2009 10:22:32 PM
Author: Mara
TG...i have that had happen to me too with it coming out lighter. we went light taupe in the townhouse because i didn''t want too dark of a color. well it was a bit light because i was afraid to go too dark. also the townhouse got so much light that the color really paled in day.

but when we did green in our office here in the new house, it was a bold enough color that it looked much darker when completed, thankfully i compensated for that. so it seemed like lighter colors with not much depth can easily wash out, but more bold colors with depth to them will look darker. also i think that ''contrast'' colors tend to make the primary color look more intense than a complimentary color.

so if deco was doing like a pale yellow or a pale blue or a gray or something i''d say go with a darker swatch, but for purple i def think Mythical.

it almost seems like it may look more like Plummy when done.

one alternative (not to confuse you more deco) but if you absolutely love a color but you think it might be too dark or intense when completed, you can always get something like 80% power of the color to lighten it slightly. i did this for our baby/guest room, in the last house i loved the color so much but it was a bigger room so in the new house i did 80% in a smaller room and it ended up almost the same.

That is EXACTLY the color we had the issue with. The color was "baked scone" and it looked warmer and darker when we did a sample slab on the wall. The finished product looks more pinky and looks very washed out during the day...sometimes the walls even look white until you look at the white ceilings. Bummer, but it''s a rental so I don''t care.

 

[April20]

Date: 10/7/2009 12:08:30 PM
Author: Tacori E-ring
what about a burnt pumpkin door to go with that rich purple?

Add some cream shutters and it would be a beautiful look. I cannot wait to see what you decide to do.

Love, love, love this idea for the door on a purple house. I think it would fabulous.

 

[April20]

Date: 10/7/2009 6:42:36 PM
Author: Bal
Anything but purple...I hate purple houses!

Well thankfully, you don''t have to live in Deco''s house!

Deco, I love ALL the purples you''ve selected. I''m leaning towards the darker of the purples you''ve selected, though truthfully, I love them all. I wouldn''t do the lightest purple on your test board. I''d do ANY of the darker ones- I think you can''t go wrong. I''ve found that often color tends to wash out a *tad* once it''s on the house. I say this because the raspberry jam color I put on my house was much brighter/darker on the paint swatch than it ended up looking on the house. I''m really glad I didn''t lighten it any or it would have been too washed out.

I''m really feeling the pumpkin door. How often will the doors be open to your interior? Truthfully, I''m one of those that likes orange and red together, so even if it shows, it doesn''t bother me. I like the green too- but the pumpkin feels more unexpected. I like unexpected.

 

[janinegirly]

my vote is for mythical. The first one is too light in my opinon and the others a bit dark---basing it on how it looks in all lights. Did you decide on door/ shutter colors? I can''t wait to see the finished product, gotta say there are no purple houses where I am, I must be in the Pottery Barn vortex.

Mara/TG: I almost went mad trying to find the perfect taupe/beige when we were painting It was awful, everything either looked like bandaids on the wall or pea soup or pinkish. We settled on some acceptable tones (Barbour and Barely Beige), but if either of you have suggestions from your experiences, let me know!

 

[Cehrabehra]

Date: 10/7/2009 5:44:11 PM
Author: Mara
my vote is Mythical.


while Plummy is very pretty and prob my 2nd pick...keep in mind just like painting a room that you are still only looking at a swatch. and while it seems like a big swatch, it''s not at all. a house is a huge palette. so all of that purple on one big house will be much darker and more intense than just the swatch of color.


Mythical seems lighter on the swatch but i think when it''s all painted it will seem darker and a bit more bold. i think it will be closer to the house you like than the other colors when done.


i also think if you wanted to do a green or red door (personally my vote is for a rich reddish mahogany, they are soooo pretty when done right, i adore our rich wooden door which contrasts nicely with brick) then stay with a *slightly* more muted color for the rest of the house. then again i am not a fan of ''too much primary'' all together. i think you need some slightly muted tones to compliment a bold color.

I agree with mara... except I think mythical might go one shade darker and be okay. What makes your heart sing?

 

[Cehrabehra]

Date: 10/7/2009 5:49:44 PM
Author: Starset Princess
I'm having trouble with the door color which could sway my vote on which purple. I know that's backwards, but I tend to plan everything first.

those tones aren't necessarily going to go though... you would have to tailor the exact color to one another - so pick an orange and a purple to go with it or pick a purple and vice versa... or green or whatever other color... but one has to be decided on and I don't think she's played with the other colors yet? If she has she should use that as a starting place and pick the purple to match lol

 

[Cehrabehra]

Date: 10/8/2009 1:03:28 AM
Author: TravelingGal

Date: 10/7/2009 10:22:32 PM

Author: Mara

TG...i have that had happen to me too with it coming out lighter. we went light taupe in the townhouse because i didn''t want too dark of a color. well it was a bit light because i was afraid to go too dark. also the townhouse got so much light that the color really paled in day.


but when we did green in our office here in the new house, it was a bold enough color that it looked much darker when completed, thankfully i compensated for that. so it seemed like lighter colors with not much depth can easily wash out, but more bold colors with depth to them will look darker. also i think that ''contrast'' colors tend to make the primary color look more intense than a complimentary color.


so if deco was doing like a pale yellow or a pale blue or a gray or something i''d say go with a darker swatch, but for purple i def think Mythical.

it almost seems like it may look more like Plummy when done.


one alternative (not to confuse you more deco) but if you absolutely love a color but you think it might be too dark or intense when completed, you can always get something like 80% power of the color to lighten it slightly. i did this for our baby/guest room, in the last house i loved the color so much but it was a bigger room so in the new house i did 80% in a smaller room and it ended up almost the same.

That is EXACTLY the color we had the issue with. The color was ''baked scone'' and it looked warmer and darker when we did a sample slab on the wall. The finished product looks more pinky and looks very washed out during the day...sometimes the walls even look white until you look at the white ceilings. Bummer, but it''s a rental so I don''t care.

My friend and I both painted our kitchens ''Chesapeake Sunset'' (ralph lauren - home depot) We did hers first and I loved the cheery orange in her north facing kitchen... in my south facing kitchen it was tuscan gold... completely different colors because of lighting, orientation etc. her color is very steady where my color had huge changes, but NEVER looked the color I fell in love with (even though I loved the color it looked as much) funny stuff, paint.

I don''t think dark is as much of a concern as bright... in the purple dept.

 

[decodelighted]

Keep thinking I should really change threads for a new poll but its nice to be able to look back & follow the whole shebang on here. Hmmmm .... maybe I''ll start a different "poll only" thread to track the purple votes, but keep most of the photos & info over here.

SO MORE PROGRESS

Based on the overwhelming support of "Mythical" and "Plummy", this a.m. I painted swatches directly onto our house. Stay tuned for pictures! (And comments on the posts I missed last night).

First up -- Plummy on house.

 

[decodelighted]

Another of Plummy.

 

[decodelighted]

Mythical on house.