Paint can be overwhelming. There are thousands of colors to choose from and the paint chips at the hardware store are dizzying — not to mention the sample color books. If you need help deciding on a paint color, go to paint brand websites, like Benjamin Moore or Behr, and research new shades and color groupings. Many sites offer virtual paint centers, so you can see what colors will look like in different rooms. Beware, this can be very addicting.
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hmmm.... i have a feeling that this is one of those colors that could grow on me, but at first glance i don't like it much. odd.
OMG - gorgeous! My mind is spinning with ideas from sideboards to accent walls.
Not terribly appealing. Maybe by 2012 I'll like it.
nononono. Don't like this color at all! But I do like AT showing us more variety in styles lately; keep it up!
the first image is the exact same color combo I painted in my room at my parents house in high school... 6 years ago! one green wall, the other four a nice plum
so glad to see that it wasn't too much of a crazy choice lol
This is SO similar to a wall in our dining room! On the wall hang three BIG black-and-white gallery wrap photo prints... LOVE!
I had the same colour combo in my student rental bedroom 15 years ago: sagey mustard walls and plum woodwork. It wasn't very inspiring.
ugh, I really don't like that color. Feels heavy and claustrophobic.
I was close! I picked Bonne Nuit.
My wife and I just painted a wall in our house this color (or one very close). It's called, Robust Raisin. A dark purple is good for a media room because it's dark so it provides better contrast from your TV for better viewing and less light pollution.
Reminds me too much of a bruise.
See, I totally like this more than pink.
It's warm, yet somber. I totally dig it - much more than honeysuckle.
Much better than the honeysuckle, but I still don't love it.
this is the color of my dining room- I LOVE it!!! With warm woods and white trim - it is a fantastic color.
painted the exterior of a 20,000 loft lodging hotel this color!! you/we were sooo right on. bold color. and i looked at TONS of this hue before i decided. tough call that was the right call.
Prefer the honeysuckle... This is pretty much the opposite of how prefer my purples....
Now this is a purple I could love.
The first pic with the greeny-yellow or yellowy-green and the brown leather stage-setting, it all reads very '70s.
But I like the other pictures a lot, except for that depressive kitchen.
I like my purple more alive, there's just too much brown in that one, so it doesn't work for me, but I can see how others might like it.
And I don't really like the combination with that olive-yellow-green-brown colour.
It's purple. And Honeysuckle is pink. Having spent the last 10 years with a daughter whose every possession was (unavoidably) these colours there is no way i would CHOOSE these. I'm back at blue myself after a 15 year absence when it was all about neutrals and green. With shots of Mustard on the side. Yummy!
yuck. just because someone tells me i'm supposed to like something and says its good doesn't mean that it's true. seriously? is that the best they could do?! purple! is my 4 year old picking out color of the year for them?
Bruise....ouch.
Funny, that's the name of my lipstick brand which everyone loves and asks about on the street. But it's a little redder. This is pretty, though.
Yuck is correct. When I bought my house the ceiling was the green color and the walls were the dark purple color. It took many coats of paint to remove the cave feeling. My kitchen had the green (split pea) color on the walls. My neighbors thought the walls were black. That is only some of the damage the previous owners did to a house built in 1939.
Much better than the honeysuckle that's for sure. I'm thinking this color is great as long as someone doesn't go overboard with it. A little can go a long way. Digging it!
Yeah, MUCH better than honeysuckle. In the wrong lighting I can see this going Barney, but in the right lighting it could be amazing.
yech. this is avocado green in sheeps clothing. I love greens, but NOT this one.
You call it Vintage Wine...
...I call it Raisin.
I like - just not with Olive green.
I love how the purple/vintage wine/raisin looks with the oriental rug in the first picture.
Forget the paint colour; I'm loving the resurgence of oriental rugs.
p.s. don't mind with olive green, but can't stand it with terra cotta or whatever that orange shade is in the second picture.
I do like the paint colour in the last two rooms (better than the BM version) but is it too much to expect a note what paint it is?
I love this colour!
I call it aubergine, and it is just as tasty.
Mud purple, very dreary and depressing hue. Perhaps that's appropriate given how this year has been going so far.
Calling this shade wine is problematic--it's too brown. Aubergine would be darker and cooler. Plum would be more vibrant. This color is just ugly.
I love the color! I also love how it blends with the green on the other walls -I definitely bookmarked this page!
I think some people have messed-up monitors given how they're describing the colors.
I painted my living room Benjamin Moore wasabi with a Benjamin Moore vintage wine ceiling: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eeka/sets/72157626095468732/
Since I'm mildly obsessed with Wasabi and Vintage Wine...
On my MacBook (white, 13 inch, about 4 years old), the photos here and my photos on flickr look almost exactly like how the paint colors look in person. Vintage Wine is deep and has a lot of gray in it and could function more or less as a neutral. Wasabi has enough green and brown in it that it does look like wasabi or guacamole and goes nicely with a lot of colors.
On the cheap computers at work that show up in a cow-spotted box and break shortly after, causing another cow-spotted box to show up, the colors in my photos and these photos here look washed out and gross. Vintage Wine looks magenta-ey and dowdy, and Wasabi looks like bright yellow babyfood puke.
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I just NEED to know what that green color is, it's AMAZING!!! 'the link doesn't work.
also what color is the trim?