It's hard to get a pic at night and I just painted two nights ago, but here is my room with BM Autumn Purple matched to Behr paint.
And six coats is a lot, but if you don't use the right paint or primer, that's what happens with deep reds and purples. I learned this the hard way when I did a deep berry color in my first place. I used tinted primer but got cheap paint and I did about six coats. Second house, I did a wine color and got good paint, and I covered in two coats. Same with this room.
But there is a reason they used purple in that commercial..."I'm looking for a purple, but not a puuuuurple..." becuase purple is the hardest damn color to get right! Normally I am one of those people who walks into a room and knows exactly what I want. I might get a few paint chips to compare. But this room drove me crazy.
This is what it looked like for a few weeks. And on every wall, so I could see it in different light...
In case anyone needs them for future reference, the colors in the following pic are: Top: SW Kimono Violet, SW Mature Grape, SW Fabulous Grape, Valspar Poetic Purple, Glidden/Martha Stewart Plum Wine Bottom: Behr Shy Violet, Behr Plum Shade, BM Eggplant, BM Autumn Purple
And from another room, SW Majestic Purple, SW Dewberry
Post by karinothing on Feb 25, 2014 14:33:33 GMT -5
Part of me really wants a darker purple but I am hesitant since our MB is really very small, I think I need something a bit lighter. So I think I am going to go with a greyish purple. I kind of want my walls to be the same color as my car. Which I realize is weird but look (not my car):
I have Dusky Hyacinth by Valspar bedroom walls. I love that it's not an in-your-face color, it's neutral, and I find it calming. Looks great with dark wood furniture too.
I've got a gray-purple in Shorti's room. Sometimes it's much more gray, sometimes it's much more purple. And like moonlight it was a PROCESS to pick the right shade. Choosing a color:
final result:
I ended up mixing together several different samples and having the result custom color-matched at SW. The final result (I'm pretty sure) was a mix of SW Ash Violet and Olympic Secret Passage (which is just gray)
Other colors considered: SW Beguiling Mauve, SW Vesper Violet, and I don't remember which brand Evening Twilight.
Part of me really wants a darker purple but I am hesitant since our MB is really very small, I think I need something a bit lighter.
This notion is why most people talk themselves out of dark paint, but dark colors can actually make spaces feel larger...the illusion of the walls receding. We painted the ceiling (down the walls to picture rail height) of a tiny bedroom like the night sky, and it felt like the ceiling was higher in that room.
We really felt like our dark bedroom was really conducive to sleeping. When we repainted the room a light gray, it was too bright in there. The only real downfall to the dark room was that we both have dark hair, and when would get ready in the master bath, we couldn't see our hair if we happened to be standing in front of the sink where the mirror reflected the open door with the dark room behind us. It made it a destination just for us, rather than just another room decorated for everyone else to see.
You could compromise and have a really dark feature wall, but if you want darker, go for it. I think the master bedroom is a great room to experiment with decorating, since it doesn't need to be light/bigger/smaller/whatever for other people....it just needs to work for you.
Part of me really wants a darker purple but I am hesitant since our MB is really very small, I think I need something a bit lighter.
This notion is why most people talk themselves out of dark paint, but dark colors can actually make spaces feel larger...the illusion of the walls receding. We painted the ceiling (down the walls to picture rail height) of a tiny bedroom like the night sky, and it felt like the ceiling was higher in that room.
We really felt like our dark bedroom was really conducive to sleeping. When we repainted the room a light gray, it was too bright in there. The only real downfall to the dark room was that we both have dark hair, and when would get ready in the master bath, we couldn't see our hair if we happened to be standing in front of the sink where the mirror reflected the open door with the dark room behind us. It made it a destination just for us, rather than just another room decorated for everyone else to see.
You could compromise and have a really dark feature wall, but if you want darker, go for it. I think the master bedroom is a great room to experiment with decorating, since it doesn't need to be light/bigger/smaller/whatever for other people....it just needs to work for you.
Hmm. Yeah, I think I am just too chicken. I mean the room is super small (as in once a queen bed is in there will be no room for a dresser lol). I think I will just go with a medium shade.
I was thinking of adding in an accent wall on the right side with a stencil of some kind and only using the same color in a high gloss.
This was my plan for our bedroom but someone on this board (I forget who) suggested that I tint the high gloss a bit darker or lighter than the wall color since depending on the light source, you may not actually see the difference. Best advice ever!
I ended up going with a high gloss purple that was just a bit greyer than the F&B Brassica I used on the wall and it looks great. You can see the stencil in all lights. I have a feeling if I had just gone with the same color, in the evening with the artificial light, the stencil would have been barely noticeable since even with the variation in color, it doesn't show the same way in artificial light. And in the natural light, the high gloss just shimmers and looks fab.
Just wanted to pass along a tip that worked out great for me.
I was thinking of adding in an accent wall on the right side with a stencil of some kind and only using the same color in a high gloss.
This was my plan for our bedroom but someone on this board (I forget who) suggested that I tint the high gloss a bit darker or lighter than the wall color since depending on the light source, you may not actually see the difference. Best advice ever!
I ended up going with a high gloss purple that was just a bit greyer than the F&B Brassica I used on the wall and it looks great. You can see the stencil in all lights. I have a feeling if I had just gone with the same color, in the evening with the artificial light, the stencil would have been barely noticeable since even with the variation in color, it doesn't show the same way in artificial light. And in the natural light, the high gloss just shimmers and looks fab.
Just wanted to pass along a tip that worked out great for me.
That's a very valid point. I would hate to put in all that effort of adding in a stencil and then not be able to see it. I think I'd go darker because it's a GR/office.