500 Designer Color Favorites: Color for a Sunny Room
Our second to last chance to win House Beautiful's new bookazine, 500 Favorite Paint Colors ($9.99 at bookstores now) has arrived. The reviews keep coming in on this Color Bible and it is an incredible guide for color and paint ideas.
Here's a peek into the bookazine and your chance to score a bookazine for yourself!
Page 104. House Beautiful asked Designer Jan Showers her secrets to making a Southern exposure work well with color. Here's her design expertise:
Jan says there is NO rule when it comes to color for a South facing room and used a glaze to make the room special. Two part question: Do you agree with Jan? What is the most interesting technique in paint or color that you've done, seen done, or can imagine?
Remember, the answer(s) I find most interesting will win a copy of House Beautiful's bookazine, 500 Favorite Paint Colors. Let the creativity and word play flow!
Hi everyone, thanks for the Blog-Love! Make sure to answer both questions if you're interested in winning the bookazine! Here they are:
Jan says there is NO rule when it comes to color for a South facing room and used a glaze to make the room special. Two part question: Do you agree with Jan? What is the most interesting technique in paint or color that you've done, seen done, or can imagine?
p.s.: I'm still rolling from Sarah's description "not nice wall color."
Posted by: Living in Color | June 10, 2010 at 11:21 AM
Whenever I paint someone's home, I paint like it is my own home. Colour for me is an exciting way to wake up a house, and this can be any colour. Using colour each day is my passion, my true job I must meant to do. Researching colour is a fun thing, and having wonderful resource material makes a difference. There is a reason that I am a Benjamin Moore Painter, people truly do see the difference when I am done painting their home- and the Benjamin Moore colours, I would have to write a book on that topic. Pixie Dust Painting's "Let Me Create Some Magic in Your Home" comes true because I use Benjamin Moore paint and products. Loving it....
Posted by: Lynn Waller | June 10, 2010 at 11:16 AM
I am so excited about this book. I just moved into a house that is all white. I need color and I am not sure whe to start. This book wii HELP.
Posted by: Betty Vandenburgp | June 10, 2010 at 11:15 AM
DOT!!! Please email me by hitting contact me. You WON a bookazine from a previous post, but your email address is bouncing back my messages. I want to get this color book to you! Hope you read this and forgive the capitalizations. ;)
Posted by: Living in Color | June 10, 2010 at 11:11 AM
I think that the lighting comming into the room has a tremendous effect on the color. So I would say where ever it comes from ,north,south,the lighting is very important. The neatest creation i have evr seen was a room painted in blue grays and they have flecked a lighter color on the one wall and it appeared to be rain. Not a dull depressing rain,a beautiful cool rain.
I would love to receive this book I am getting ready to move in to a 1875 old brownstone in philadelphia,that needs to be totally painted. Thank you
Posted by: Dot Quinlan | June 10, 2010 at 11:06 AM
This Comment was emailed to me from Margery Hirschey & I thought I'd share it.
"Best color... Marilyn's dress. The palest grey which looks magnificent in a bedroom with white accents. It's in my bedroom and I absolutely love it.
Sent in by Margery"
The funny thing is the color name here-- Marilyn isn't the "Marilyn" you may be thinking of. THIS Marilyn was a sharp-witted, sassy lady from Australia who I was happy to have crossed paths with at Benjamin Moore years ago. She named the color after her favorite dres... Don't you LOVE color name stories?
Posted by: Living in Color | June 10, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Wow, what a nice room...I am constanting painting and would love to have have this book. It would save many trips to my favorite Benjamin Moore retailer.
Posted by: Kim Dilney | June 10, 2010 at 10:55 AM
I do agree. I think you have to choose a paint colour that feels good to you; one that makes you happy.
As for the 'most interesting' paint technique I have ever seen? When we moved into our current home, we had to look past the previous owners' passion for sponge painting. The most 'interesting' room was their teenage son's bedroom. There was a navajo inspired wall paper border in shades of brown. The room was painted to match. Sponge painted in various shades of light brown that made it look like...well...one of my son's diapers. Not nice. Not nice at all.
Posted by: Sarah @lovelaughshop | June 10, 2010 at 10:53 AM
Beautiful color for a beautiful room! Would love to have a copy of this book!!!!
Posted by: Lisa | June 10, 2010 at 10:51 AM