WDYT of this paint color?

[mrs.jacinthe]

For our guest room/my office?


Sherwin Williams Mauve Finery

Here's the room:




(Please excuse the mess on my desk - these are old photos).  I have charcoal curtains for this room (these, specifically), although they're not up because I'm still trying to decide on a paint color.  Additionally, I'm going to be putting my desk skirt back on, so it won't be a giant turd-colored blob in the room, like it is now.

Do you think that's a ridiculous color choice?  I want to do something I love in there, since I spend *the whole day* in this room.  Would you get tired of it?

[kaylie]

I like where you're going with it, but I'd worry about it either looking like a little girl's room or the same color as that weird 80s pink carpet I always see in houses. The lighting in the room will be important. Can you paint a sample on the wall before you commit? I think seeing it in the room first to make sure it looks the way you want it to is a good idea.

[TBM]

The question is...would you get tired of it fast. You are the one that it has to work for.



I would get tired of it super fast, but it is completely nms. I think it could look too baby or too 80s mauve-ish, pretty easily, but that could just be me.

[thewop]

I want to like it, but I just don't. It screams "EASTER!" to me.

[Deleted]

I don't think I'd get tired of it, but I'm not one to get bored with color very fast.

Purple isn't my thing at all, but I overall don't hate your pick. I think it looks good with the woodowork. I just worry it could go pink awfully fast. If you want purple I think you need more of a true purple or one with some gray or white undertones.

[thewop]

What about SW Plum Dandy?

[heygrey]

Honestly... Not a fan. I like the direction you're going with the room, but I'd pick a different shade.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Mar 25, 2013 12:38:30 GMT -5 thewop said:

What about SW Plum Dandy?

I was hoping for that level of saturation, but a lighter color.  The room doesn't get a TON of light.

I think you ladies are right.  It is sort of easter egg-y.  I saw it in this photo from the Ballard catalog and fell in love:



But I think I would get tired of it fast, now that you all bring it up.  Maybe I should go with a "duskier" color?

[mrs.jacinthe]

Ok, what about this one? Better? Worse?



SW Beguiling Mauve?

[emoflamingo]

I like that second one in theory, but I think you need to see it IRL in the room before it's a yay. The light may do funny things to it.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Mar 25, 2013 13:26:49 GMT -5 FormerlyRR said:

I think any color called mauve is going to be too grayed for you. The aqua on the headboard is a nice clean color, you need a clean color on the wall.
Looking at the SW site, I think Rosy Outlook, Chartruese, Animated Coral, Euporic Lilac or Novel Lilac would work.

Ehhh, I'll repaint the headboard if I hate it with whatever wall color I go with.  I'm hoping for something a little smokey/grayed because of how calming those colors are.

[heygrey]

I really think your going to have to pick a few and do test squares. The lighting in that room is so different than the pictures online and dark wood trim will make everything read differently.

Signed, girl who is repainting her bedroom after a year because the colour she picked did NOT read the same in a poorly lit room. I used a really pretty blue-grey and it feels like a cave.

[Deleted]

I like that second pick much better.
Although, in the Ballard picture I don't mind the first one so much either. I do think that's a hard IRL life color to pull off unless you're in a toddler room.

I'm with grey at this point. This is one color that tests different based on circumastances. Do some test samples and see. You never know which purple might look the best.

[tarheels]

Ah, mrs.j, how quickly you forget. Don't you remember me chasing this color this past summer? It's pretty impossible to get right. I went through something like 11 samples and 2 gallons before giving up and doing navy. I like it, and I think it'd be a welcome, fun change. It's just a gallon of paint - go for it! But I wish you godspeed in finding the right shade...you'll need it lol!

[mrs.jacinthe]

Mar 25, 2013 14:32:23 GMT -5 tarheels said:

Ah, mrs.j, how quickly you forget. Don't you remember me chasing this color this past summer? It's pretty impossible to get right. I went through something like 11 samples and 2 gallons before giving up and doing navy. I like it, and I think it'd be a welcome, fun change. It's just a gallon of paint - go for it! But I wish you godspeed in finding the right shade...you'll need it lol!

Aw, crap.  I do remember that.

GAH.

I wonder how many sample boards I'm going to have to paint.  LOL

[bunnymendelbaum]

I remember that Tarheels! I was toying with this color (or a more gray version)for DD2's nursery. I never found a color I was happy with.

I did find a gray/blue/green that I LOVE for her room. It is actually very similar to the gray/green of the cabinet in your inspiration pic.
What about if you did the walls in that and then the headboard in the mauve?

Wall color: Ben Moore Steep Cliff Gray

[emjacobs]

It reminds me of my grandmothers blush. Not that that is a bad thing, she was an awesome lady, but I think it's a little boring.

[darby]

I love the 2nd color you posted!