While a number of you were a bit skeptical of our push for more color in the dining room (we're still working on that one), we are pleased with the really big change that has happened in the library (soon to be a nursery).
Which is not to say that a certain amount of discomfort greeted us late last Friday night when we arrived to see the dark colors under a bare bulb and we'd thought we'd gone too far.
Wall Color: Hazy Lilac BM 2116-40
Trim Color: Touch or Gray BM 2116-60
Floor Color: Creekside Green BM 2141-40
But we feel a need for deeper, darker colors and we're experimenting with how to scratch that itch.
This library room was originally painted in Martha Stewart Araucana colors which we'd mixed into Benjamin Moore (can't remember the names). Inspired by our trip to Bonpoint a few months ago, we chose a warm cool color - Lavender - to create a soothing room which would also be warm and inviting. Mark Chamberlain did a great job with the painting and between the two of us, we decided to bring the darker lavender up the wall.
These dark colors have been growing on us, particularly as they settle into the background with the furniture and books moved in. Next we're working on the lighting and Nursery supplies. For the lighting we're going to make something like this globe light thing at Anthropologie....
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Oooh, I really like how it looks!! Great colours!
Do you guys have different colour wood flooring in all your rooms?
What shelving classification system are you using? :-) Bibi
applaud applaud! Good job!
It's beautiful!
What a happy room for a nursery! All those windows, and the low shelves that can hold toys.
I'm not a purple person, so take what I say with that in mind. These are rather cool colors. I love the warm violet on that Calypso bag, though. Is that there for a reason? Maybe the trick used in the SF Designer's Showcase (featured on the SF AT site) would give this place a kick in the pants. They used a few bright-yellow pillows and a yellow painting to shake up a silvery-blue sitting room. I didn't like it there, but for a child's room it would look jolly and playful. Maybe Yellow Raincoat (BM-2020-40) or Sunshine (20-21-30)?
And to my eye, you need a punchier rug. That would be a good place for the yellow.
Love the color!
wondering about that shelving. it looks really great in there - nice proportions. custom? if not, where might at readers find it?
the colors seem dark but the room is pretty empty so i'd reserve judgement until i saw it filled with purty things. maybe tho there are few magic hours where it shines with a gentle glow that makes all the difference.
Yeah for lilac! We just painted our bedroom a cooler and lighter "Pale Lilac" (Pittsburgh Paint color custom matched by BM) and it is very peaceful. We have warm furniture (oak and light walnut) and have added in brown, charcoal and red-orange for bedding/accents.
I too would like to know more about the shelving! Did you build them yourself or hire someone to do it? I've always wanted to do something similar to this in my own place, so I'm anxious to hear more details. (Please, please say it wasn't too difficult or expensive...)
I like the color - but I am really dissappointed in your for painting those lovely wood shelves. They were already such a nice wood finish. Paint plywood and MDF if you feel like it, but please, please be nice to finished wood.
I have always secretly wanted a really girly, lilac bedroom. Nice colors! I'd kind of like the shelves to contrast more (maybe the trim color) but overall, it's very nice.
I am also interested in the shelf info. That looks like something I could adapt into a window seat in front of my troublesome (but nice) corner window.
Thanks for sharing. Love the overall feel in this room - clean, open and light.
But after reading Monica's comment, I tend to want to see the wood back. And the compulsive sky-gazing day-dreamer in me would have loved to have seen a window seat below the large double-windows (with storage underneath, of course).
I love the color! And I think it was a good decision to paint the shelves -- it makes the walls and the shelving one organic whole, gives more continuity. (When I was a little girl, well, old enough to choose my own paint color, I had a lavender bedroom, and I still look back on it with fondness. I'm sure Ursula will love it, too. -- and I would have loved wrap-around toned-in shelves. Matter of fact, I still would!) The room is going to be lovely! Thanks for sharing.
What crop is that growing at the window?
I have always secretly wanted a really girly, lilac bedroom. Nice colors! I'd kind of like the shelves to contrast more (maybe the trim color) but overall, it's very nice.