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that's exactly that I was searching for - a paint for the wall that resembles the color of the sky.

light sand, green grass on the beach and the sky.

what colour would that be at home depot or lowe's egg shell enamel paints

that's really beautiful. it seems deep and rich, but still soothing for a bedroom.

What's with all the crap on the night stand?

i love it!!!!!!!!!

as usual, this photgraph has me running off in completely different directions from where i was going before.

though this blue does look similar to what my roommate is going for. maybe i'll show him this...

oil, it looks similar to a Behr shade available at home depot which i think is called Lagoon or somesuch. but what we're seeing depends on both our screen calibrations and (especially in this photo) the lighting, so just because it reminds me of a paint chip by that name doesn't mean that if you went out and got that paint (even if i'm right about the name) you would get this effect.

one way to mimic it, though, would be to print this photo, bring it to home depot, and grab every paint chip that looks similar to you. bring them all home and sit in the room you'd like to paint with them. hold them up to the light and to different pieces of furniture, the floor, art, etc. then tape them to the walls as far apart as possible. make sure to cut them apart from other shades on the same card -- this makes a big difference as what you really love might be the pretty contrasts on the cards themselves (this gets me all the time). live with them for a few weeks, gradually taking down the shades you don't love. eventually you'll narrow it down, and voila! it might not look exactly like this, but it'll be the closest approximation possible in your specific space.

Anyone who has experience with paint will tell you that you will never get the same richness from Behr as you will with Fine Paints of Europe, or other premium paint. There's no comparison in consistency of application and richness of color. (I'm sure Mark would agree.) That being said, there's a great resource that's been mentioned on this site before: colorcharts.org. You can take the name of a color by one manufacturer, and find the closest match by another company - very useful.

I love the color of the wall, but the picture hanging behind the bed reminds me of the awful poster section of Ikea.

Thank you so much for experimenting with FPE. I want to know more and more about how it handles to how it lasts from a painter like you, one who hasn't worked with it before. I've been investigating this paint for a while but can't find actual painters who use it.

Really lovely, evocative color. Very soothing for a bedroom.

And is that true about many windows and dark colors?

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that's a really nice colour. Defnitely not your conventional blue. But I say take away those 2 pics on the wall and go for a nice landscape format artwork (properly framed and sized please...) above the headoard. Prefably an art piece with lilacs or turqouise to pick up the tones off the back wall.

Agree with Biteme, what's all those stuff, or should i say mess, doing on the side table? Isn't a table lamp a better option, softly illuminating the blue tone behind when it's switched on at night? Ah...I already envisage a very cosy look going on here...

Thanks Opp.

Caroline, I agree with you that paints from the hardware giants are definitely not at par with the finer paints.

But with my addiction! of colors and giving my place a minimalist look - paints like this are the most economical way to go.

I love the blue. My fiancee and I are in the process of painting our apartment and had decided on a golden hue for our bedroom.

Like the opoponax, this picture has me reconsidering...

We had chosen a lighter color for the bedroom to help brighten it...but now I don't know...the blue is so wonderfully ethereal.

If my contractor specifies benjamin moore in his estimate--does than mean he wouldn't consider using 'fancier' paint? Would it typically be much more $$ to use (not just the added paint cost?)

Thomas - I had a gold bedroom once. I had a terrible time falling asleep. Then I read something about babies with yellow rooms cry more. Apparently, the gold was too active a color for me. I painted the room a dusty rose and the problem was solved.

loli -- fine paints of europe is considerably more expensive than BM, approaching $100 a gallon. i'm guessing this would add a lot to your budget. i don't think the labor or equipment would be any more expensive, though, and i'm pretty sure the reason your painter specified BM is because it's a sort of standard midrange paint.

as far as FPE vs. what you can get at home depot.

to be perfectly honest, i really don't see the point of using the high end stuff for most jobs. i've used both Behr (one of the home depot brands) and BM in my place, and you really can't tell the difference. i expect that FPE is a notch above pigment-wise, but for most colors it's just not going to be that big a deal. the only situation in which i'd go high end would be if i were painting a place i owned and planned to live in for many years, AND i wanted a particularly tricky color.

I had a blue bedroom once and it was divine. Dark in all the right ways, yet not a cave either.

This blue here makes me want to go back to it all over again.

Beautiful color! Mark, how would you adjust the color if you didn't have all of that light coming in? I have big windows but all northern exposure with lots of shade trees outside my window.

Vivienne

VIVENNE, IT'S ALL RELATIVE. YOU WOULD HAVE TO PICK A VERSION OF THIS SPECIFIC TO YOUR LIGHTING, FURNINTURE, ARCHITECTURE &C. COULDN'T SAY EXACTLY W/O BEING THERE. USE THIS AS AN INSPIRATION AND THEN GO W/ YOUR GUT. THIS WAS A NORTH WINDOW ALSO AND I DIDN'T BRING A LIGHT IN.