So I went and picked up the sample can of F&B Blazer today and painted it in a bunch of spots and I need some outside opinions. Remember, the red would be over the cabinets while the yellow (F&B Print Room Yellow) would be in the dining room. I'm including pics of the 2 paint swatches together and one of the table top.
Opinions please...I'm not sure how I feel about these colours with the room, so be honest!
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Amber Coast may work in that light and would be warm. Maybe some one can mock it up for you.
Pearl_ girl - I've considered that, but hubby doesn't like the idea of a gray dining room because he thinks it will be cold. I would tend to agree in this case since the light we get in the room is quite cold (northern) and we'd like the feeling of the room to be warm and cozy. That said, we're planning to have a number of large (think poster-sized) black and white photos of old stone buildings up on the walls.
I would take the grey from the table top and do a wall in that and add art with a punch of colour in the red, terra cotta colours. To me a reddish wall with the table top would be over done. There are so many nice greys.
That's funny I thought you were the Queen of REDs now you have competition. Back to the question I like #2 Spiced Apple first then Sundried Tomato both are great.
Sorry my mistake. It must be someone else who had posted red in their foyer. Need to read all posts. :o
Smoodgie, I did a search for "red" on here and came across your stack of red paint chips - I don't think I'm quite there yet, but well on my way :p .
Inglewood, maybe you're mixing me up with someone else?...I don't have red anywhere else...I have blue in my foyer and a yellowy buttercream everywhere else. I'm going to be painting over walls that are a different shade of deep brown-red.
Here's an idea:
What if you paint a feature wall ( the wall opposite your kitchen area) with the red you used in your foyer (to make it relate) Then paint the remaining walls in a colour that compliments. I am just thinking if you choose another red on your main floor it may look off.
OMG, I'm sensing deja vu all over again!! :eek: I don't think you were around when I posted a pic of all my red colour chips..... it wasn't pretty!!
I won't be much help here, 'cause I can't pick just one!! I like Sundried Tomato, Hot Apply Cider, the one under SDT, and the middle one in the right column. Basically, the deeper, richer, less-orangey/pinky reds.
Don't forget, you can usually colour-match one paint brand to another. So don't let the brand hold you back!!
either the first one in top row or the last one in second row. None in third row.
Alrightly, yet another picture, this time including Hot Apple Spice. Sundried tomato is at the top left, Hot Apple Spice is just to the right of it (top row, second column). Opinions?
we used it downstairs in our bar. It looks quite different than in the mockup, so i hope this pic is more true to the chip u have. I
Thanks for the visual Mel! I would agree with Smoodgie though that Sundried Tomato looks like it would be quite a bit more brown...?
I do have that issue of Style @ Home, actually, I love the colours Jim Caruk used in his house. I'll have to see if I have a swatch of Hot Apple Spice somewhere...
I took pictures of the cabinets and table with a whole bunch of other colours too, but no time to post now, I'll come back later.
I think Sundried Tomato and Bonaparte are both more brown than they look in the picture of the paint chips on the table.
What about BM Maple Leaf Red?? Or the colour Jim Caruk used in his dining room, BM Hot Apple Spice?? His house was featured in a recent issue of Style At Home, if you want to see how it looks in his DR.
Here's sundried tomato mocked up on paint.
Out of those three..i definitely like the Sundried tomato best.
Okay, I took those pictures of the different BM reds with the table, they are, from top to bottom, Raspberry Truffle, Bonaparte, Sundried Tomato.
WOW!!!...that's awesome diningroom...i love that :)
The other walls are BM Tiramisu. It's also the colour in the kitchen.
smoodgie,
what colour did you paint the other 2 walls to compliment the red? It goes very well together.
I'll see if I can take some pictures later when I'm home.
As far as what to paint which colour....I'm still not sure. My original intention was to paint the bay window and area above the cabinets yellow and the dining room red, hence the red dining room that we have right now. I had one of the BM colour consultants come and she had suggested a yellowy-amber on the wall you can see from the hallway and above the cabinets with the red on the 2 solid dining room walls and in the bay window. Another option would be to paint the entire space one colour or to paint one colour on all of the walls and something else inside the bay window.
I'm open to suggestion...
I remember you mentioning the trouble you had with C2 paint -- thanks for the warning, I'll be sure to avoid it!!
I considered Bonaparte for the accent wall, but I found it a bit too brown. I wanted a vibrant true red, but not TOO vibrant. Can you put the RT colour chip on your table and take a picture so we can see how the colours on the table look with it??
So have you decided to paint both your kitchen and dining room red then??
Smoodgie, I've got the Raspberry Truffle paint chip at home and I love the colour, but it's not quite right against the very orangey table. It would probably be great just against the cabinets. My other "finalist" red from BM is Bonaparte, which my parents used and which looks amazing in their family room, which is adjacent to a kitchen with apricot-y wood cabinets.
I know all about how many coats of red it takes to get good coverage - the colour on the wall right now is C2 Spanish Tile, which took 5 coats over tinted primer. NOT FUN!!!
And for the record, I will never use C2 paint again, it is expensive cr@p which is now wiping off the walls and getting all marked up every time it gets wet. Oh, and this is an eggshell finish we're talking about, not flat paint.
smoodgie, there is that famous wall again and i would agree that is a very nice red...........see smoodgie its not my red accents that are getting to me, its how im using them too much solid....its got to be red panels with another color, like gold and pattern....sorry gwen, didnt mean to hijack your thread
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janetc
We must have been typing at the same time!!
I'm not familiar with any of the reds that you mentioned, sorry.
Here's a pic of the wall I painted Raspberry Truffle, to give you an idea of what it looks like.....
If you're set on a red, BM Raspberry Truffle is a beautiful red. I think it would complement your kitchen cabinets nicely, and would work with the yellow that you like. It also looks great with the Tiramisu that I suggested :) It's a true red, with no pink or orange or blue undertones. And trust me, I avoid any colour with pink undertones and loud, brash, orangey reds like the plague :)
Keep in mind that red sometimes requires a number of coats. RL reds are terrible for coverage -- a friend of mine has 2 coats of tinted primer and 7 coats of an RL red in his dining room, and it's still splotchy and uneven. I used 2 coats of Raspberry Truffle over a dark red "primer" coat, and the coverage is awesome. I suspect that F&B reds would probably require 3 coats at the most for good coverage.
Hmm...Sundried tomato will be worth a look. Sigh...as much as I keep trying to get away from the very brown-reds, I seem to keep coming back to them... Our foyer is painted F&B Chinese Blue (fairly warm med. blue) and you can see about 2 feet of the dining room wall from the foyer (and you can see both clearly if you're standing in the hallway), so whatever gets painted in the dining room needs to work with the blue in the foyer and I never seem to be a fan of the brownish reds with the blue...
I was hoping for another F&B colour for the dining room to keep the "grayed", historical quality of the colours throughout the house, but I'm thinking that isn't going to happen since I haven't found the right colour there. Sooo....I've been checking out the Williamsburg palette from Pratt & Lambert and I think I'm going to have to go and pick up some samples of
- Raleigh Tavern Chinese red 2
- China closet red 3
And (gulp) I am actually really liking Everard Vermillion 4, but I need to see it in person. Like the F&B Blazer it might also be too bright.
Has anyone seen any of these colours in person? Thoughts?
For the record, while I'm looking at the Williamsburg palette, the blue in the foyer is a similar colour to Nelson House Blue, I think, and the rest of the floor is similar to Palace Chambers Yellow light 16.
nice to see you again....the sundried looks fab.........mel nice mock ups too...its going to be hard to choose :confused: :)
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janetc
Thanks Mel... I found when using CBN, the colour will change and vary depending on the existing colour. for example. if you are adding the colour to a picture that has red walls....then add the same colour to a picture with white walls... you will haven different shades. It may not be the case for all, but thats what I found and went back to using photoshop and just looking at a paint deck...hehe
Thankd Decorguy...I knew that sundried tomato didn't look like th emockup...not sure why..but CBN seems to be very innacurate when it comes to the various red tones.
Oh yeah..its nice to see you back. :)
Sorry, missed this thread last night!!
I don't have the colour viewer on this computer, so mock-ups will have to wait till later on my home computer. Although Mel did some good ones :)
It's not a F&B colour, but I think BM Tiramisu would look great with your kitchen cabinets. Our cabiniets are a similar colour, and it really works with Tiramisu. Maybe F&B has a similar colour.....