Melissa at 320 Sycamore is having a My Favorite Paint Color party! What a great idea! Get on over there and check out all those great paint colors!
So, my favorite paint color. Let me start by saying that my favorite color is green. I like every shade of green but hunter. It is only good at Christmastime! Now let me add that finding a great green paint color is very difficult for me. But I have succeeded! When we bought our house seven years ago, this family room is what made us fall in love with the house. We obviously fell in love with the room's potential, NOT the paint color!
About two weeks after moving in (and after some painting acrobatics and shaky knees on a tall ladder), the family room looked like this . . .
I loved it instantly. From the first swipe of the roller. It is Laura Ashley Olive 4.
And seven years later, after adding 2 kids, new furniture, new fireplace tile, new hardwood flooring and window treatments, the room is still this color, and we still love it! To me, it is the perfect green--not too sage and not too apple. Here is our family room today . . .
I have found some other great greens for my house as well . . .
We used Laura Ashley Apple 3 in our first son's nursery:
Before our second son arrived, the guest bedroom was also green--Restoration Hardware Sycamore Green, which was a greyish-green:
And we have Behr Grass Cloth in our basement playroom. It looks great with black accents:
We used a green on the same swatch as Grasscloth in our kitchen. It is Behr Corn Husk Green:
So, those are some of the green paint colors I have used. I swear, there are other paint colors in my house! But they are neutrals, which I think are also difficult to find good shades of! But that's a whole other post!
Enjoy the party at 320 Sycamore!
You are a girl after my own heart. I love green and worry about using it too much. I am so glad that you added that. I have Olive 2 on my walls from the same Laura Ashley line. My sister used 6 (or whatever the darkest one was) on her walls. It looks black, with a green tint. Beautiful colors.
ReplyDeleteShelly~this post is perfect timing! I seriously have grasscloth and cornhusk paint swatches in my laundry room as we speak! I want to do something with black and white accents and this just may be my answer! I have hardly any natural light in there though and I'm wondering if the grasscloth may be too dark. I love LA olive 4 as well, and you just can't go wrong with RH colors either. Thanks so much for sharing all of these and for joining the party!
ReplyDeleteOh Shelly.. I'm loving that Olive! All your different shades of green are great choices. Thanks for sharing your beautiful home and colors.
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Debbie
Those are some lovely greens. I think green is tricky. Yours look so well coordinated.
ReplyDeleteShelly, I love your greens. My favorite color is red and that is in my office. But I have a green bathroom. Also my foyer, hallway, stairwell, and upstairs hallway are all green. Even my sofa is green. Maybe my fave should be green instead of red? Nope! Definitely red! LOL
ReplyDeleteI love your choice in green colors, especially the striped room... I love yellow! I made the mistake once of painting a room hunter green and then I had to repaint. Your choices of green are perfect. you have a beautiful home.
ReplyDeleteLove your choice in green and I really love the green and yellow striped room..beautiful home!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colors! Olive 4 is exactly the shade of green I've been searching for! It looks fabulous in your family room, especially after all this time. When I paint I want it to be something I can live with for many years! I do not enjoy painting...which is why I haven't even started yet in our new house, it's a blank canvas!
ReplyDeletelove love the Grass Cloth green- it does look wonderful with black.
ReplyDeleteI've heard of Grasscloth and plan on sampling it for my master bath. I love your greens!
ReplyDeleteHi, Shelly, how fun that we have 2 of the same greens! I love to see them in other people's homes too, great colors. Glad to see all of yours too.
ReplyDeleteWhat fun stripes you've painted! I think you can never go wrong with RH colors - love them all!
ReplyDeleteYour family is great! Love the built ins and the floors, not to mention your dining table and chairs and that hutch in the kithen. I love white, lol. Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteLove every single shade of green you've used. Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI love your greens! I am a big Behr fan, too. Outback is a great warm, creamy green that you'd probably like, too. So nice to visit your blog, your baby's nursery is adorable!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE green! And all of yours are beautiful! I especially love your living room! Wow, that green really makes the built ins and fireplace pop! I would have fallen in love with that room too! You're a lucky girl, and have a good eye for good color!
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ReplyDeleteYou were not kidding when you said you love green, but you have done them well! I have used Laura Ashley Olive 4 and Behr Grass Cloth. I am in agreement that both are very nice. Your kitchen paint looks fresh, crisp and clean! Thanks for sharing. ~Cathy~
ok... if you ever see my kid's bathroom you will laugh. I was trying to get your KITCHEN and i got ALIEN, glowing green. i'm afraid to paint over it now... maybe once school starts. um. how do you think behr cornhusk green will look painted on top of alien??
ReplyDeleteLove, love all these shades of green you've used! Great inspiration - thank you.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Marie
http://emmacallsmemama.com
I love your greens, they're so fresh looking! I recently tried Lowe's Apple Green in my dining room and I love it.
ReplyDeleteI have loved Olive 4 every since seeing Rhoda use it at her blog, Southern Hospitality. Your home looks so inviting and fresh!
ReplyDelete~Tana@ Crafting R&R
Hi, I also have Behr Grasscloth in my home and LOVE it! I have it in the kitchen and yes, it does look great with black or white accents. My neighbor's daughter also used it in her kitchen and it looks great in hers as well. Your home is beautiful, thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteKA_POW!!!!! What a difference that LA Olive 4 made in your livingroom. I totally love it. your other paint choices are lovely too. : )
ReplyDeleteI love greens as well! Olive 4 is my favorite and it looks wonderful on that big ole wall!
ReplyDeletewhat a fun blog you have. Love the design. Bling, bling!!! new to your blog. I like your paint choices too!!
ReplyDeleteI especially love your family room. The fireplace looks so much better with the darker tiles. I also love the fresh color of your kitchen. Looks like a bright and cheery room.
ReplyDeleteThose are all beautiful colors!
ReplyDeleteThat Olive is a GREAT color and the room is so nice! The other greens you have found are all good ones too- and a "good" green is tough to find in
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LOL...we just put up Grass Cloth in our family room and guess what? Our kitchen will be Corn Husk pretty soon! LOL! Oh and I had planned on using black accents for the Grass Cloth, so it is nice to see a sneak preview :)
ReplyDeleteYou have a lovely house with great paint choices!
Oh...I made a mistake..our kitchen will be Grape Leaves soon..it's on the same paint swatch :)
ReplyDeleteWow... loads of green! I love the color in your living area, but don't think I could do it in that many rooms of my house... maybe as an accent though. Your house looks beautiful even though it's too much green for me :)
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