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    • It was late afternoon. During most of the day, light streams into that room, which is why the floor is bleached. 🙂

      • I hadn’t noticed the floor bleaching! I’ll bet the light flowing through the room is beautiful all day, totally worth it. Lovely wall colors too. Congrats on the new home!

      • I just assumed that it was one of the multi colored woods. I like those.
        Great space, love the high looking ceiling and the arch. The white trim gives a nice counter point.

  6. That is beautiful! I Really like blue in a bedroom as it is soothing. Here is my color hint: I like colors from nature because we have a property where the windows look out at trees, fields, and flowers. So I like those colors to frame those pictures of nature not clash with them. Of course in south central Texas, sometimes the outside color is brown. 😉

  10. I really love it. I am doing Chelsea Gray by Ben Moore for mine if I ever get around to it. I have had the paint for 2 years

  15. I love that shade. I’ve love to do my living room in that shade, but I just don’t get enough sunlight in there so I think it would make the room too dark. So maybe a lighter blue in the living room and a darker blue in the kitchen/dining room.

  16. Love it! Was Taylor Morrison your builder, by any chance? Asking because they were ours, and we have several identical house features — construction of the arches and tray ceilings; light fixtures—and though they’re not uncommon, I was struck by the familiarity when I saw yours.

  19. For some bizarre reason, the master bedroom was also Yellow when we bought it. Ugh. Bedroom should never be yellow- it is not restful! I quickly repainted it a a slate blue with brown stenciled tree outlines in key places for accent. It is now beautiful and calming.
    The blue you chose looks rich, luscious, and soothing. Enjoy! (Pardon my Oxford comma, I am partial to them)

    • Sometimes, the “Oxford comma” should be necessary. A restaurant review I read recently extolled the eatery’s “steak, shrimp and strawberry pie.” Shrimp and strawberry pie might be delicious, but I doubt I would try it. Yes, yes, of course I know what they meant, but that was not my first thought, nor was the lasting impression the reviewer wanted to give.

      On the other hand, the color is fabulous in both lights.
      My last house was yellow throughout. Gold carpet everywhere and 3 different patterns of wallpaper featuring yellow. It gets old fast…

    • The smallest bedroom in my current house is painted kind of a butter yellow – neither light nor bright, but still warm, with maybe some parchment undertones. And I love it so much. The room would tend to be a bit dark – it has one North facing window, and a many-paned door to its balcony, but the yellow just makes it cozy and wonderful. (I’m currently living in the blue room, which has better windows and layout, but I really prefer the yellow room for aesthetics.)

      • I did the same thing in my bedroom. It’s a light butter yellow and in the mornings ( windows facing southeast) it just makes the whole room warm and happy feeling – like sunshine inside.
        It’s the only room in the house I did in yellow so it’s not overwhelming.

        The blue is gorgeous on those walls- I bet when it’s super sunny outside it’s really peaceful feeling.

  20. I love it. Not to mention the arch and the french doors.

    (Ugh, mustard yellow. My first house was entirely updated, except for the kitchen, which had mustard yellow countertops. I was really going to wait it out, save up, and put in granite, but one morning I just totally lost it.)

    • Okay, when you say “Lost it” I picture someone with a sledgehammer taking out the countertops with stuff still on them ? What did you do take them out? Paint them? Move?

      • In essence, I painted them. I called up my oldest friend* who was a handyman to an apartment to get technical advice. Then I sanded down the formica to get it porous enough to take paint, primed it, and then sponge painted it in three shades of somewhat muted green – it came out looking kind of like a Monet painting. Then I put on five coats of varathane. …and they were gorgeous and I ended up never wanting to change them. The kitchen had some fairly lovely if dark wood cabinets, with white ceramic knobs that made the wood look dull and awful, so I changes everything over to brass, and the little brass lion’s head pulls because what the hell. The whole thing cost me around $150. (The layout of the kitchen was nice, plenty of space, ceilings slanting up to 14″ high, and with skylights. Eventually I added in a wood burning brick oven.)

        Now I have all granite countertops, and they kind of irritate me.

        * I’ve known him since I was two weeks old and he was two months old, and we grew up together.

        • Sounds lovely. I am really happy about the color of granite that I picked but it has one big drawback it has speckles/swirling thru it that it hides all sorts of crumbs on the counters.
          Nice to have that type of resource on hand.

          • I’m not generically anti-granite – I just am finding my current countertops tiresome. They are cold, and hard, which means things break too easily (not a problem for me after the first day or two, but other people do spend time in my kitchen). I think ideally I’d have a mix of surfaces – some stone, some hardwood (one of the few things I brought with me is a free standing maple countertop) and some… um, something else, I haven’t decided yet. I’m not really doing a lot of intensive cooking right now, and they’re find for zendo purposes, so it’s not a big deal. And I don’t know if I’m going to be putting down roots long term any time soon.

            S is the best. His whole family is the best, really.

  21. Very nice. My kitchen is a similar color, though I did add a chocolate colored accent wall. Then we did the cabinets with a white base and a butcher block type of natural finish on the cabinet doors. It really looks nice and will be perfect once we get new flooring installed.

    It’s all very soothing. I enjoy sitting in my kitchen, with the woods off the back deck, and enjoying a cup of coffee.

  22. Love the color! We painted our room with a blue with gray undertones and love it! Enjoy the new paint!

  23. love the colour and the variation the change in lighting gives , try it with candles bet get another colour effect there as well .

  26. Love that color! Taking a note. Best of luck with getting your work done while all the rest is going on!

  29. I thought it was two different rooms and about to comment that both colors look great until I realized the ceiling light was turned on in photo #2. Nice how the light changes the color some, but still keeps it looking great.

  30. Wow…the online preview color looks incredibly different than what you see on the walls. Good thing you painted those splotches first!

    It turned out beautifully and I love your floors and interesting angles, too.

  32. It looks so sophisticated! The blue with the white trim is gorgeous – and you’re right, it seems very calming. Like the kind of space you walk into and just immediately relax with that inner “aaahhhhh” feeling.

  37. What a stunning room!
    I have only met two people who decorate well with yellow. Most of the time yellow is too garish.

  39. I like the color. But if I have a little advice to give is to paint the ceilling white. The room will feel a lot bigger.
    But it’s just my opinion 🙂

  40. Beautiful color! It will be so relaxing and even better at night with strategic lighting.

  41. It looks amazing. With houses where colors go weird (we have such a house), one solution is to bite the bullet and go with Benjamin Moore’s Aura paint line. Unlike normal paint that’s white with pigment mixed in, this stuff actually bonds to the pigment. Lighter colors behave the same way saturated colors do and it has the benefit of staying the same color when it gets scratched (with normal paint, if you scratch it, you will get a white line). Another trick is to have whatever paint store you use tint your primer as well as your paint. This allows richer colors to shine with one or two coats instead of two or three. If you happen to be using a red anywhere in the house, have them tint the primer gray- it gives the red depth and helps prevent the “we wanted red, why is it lipstick pink?” moment.

  43. Wow, that is great. And it goes so well with the flooring. sigh…… its so pretty I want to go look at paint and I hate to go look at paint.

  44. I love it but then I love a blue bedroom. Mine is Grecian sky blue and it is not wimpy but a solid, soothing but lovely blue. This would be a second choice for me. Two years later I still look at the wall and love the feeling it gives me.

  45. Its a little intense for me but its a beautiful color. And my mantra with paint is “If you love it, its the right color”.

  51. I’m not into blue or shades thereof when it comes to my personal taste, but I’m truly digging this color. Posh, indeed! ?

    • My bedroom had mustard-ish yellow walls years ago (gold, part-time occupied by a smoker) — now redone a peachy cream, thank you — but never the CEILING, for heaven’s sake!

  54. OooooOOOOoooo! Oh my gods, this house, I love this house. Look at those floors! And the french doors! And the gorgeous fan and archway too!

    Oh yeah, the blue is beautiful, by the way. 😀

    • ‘Glad you could see past the mustard to the “bones”! It’s hard to tell what the incandescent light’s effect actually is to the human eye, given cameras’ difficulty with mixed light-sources, but it definitely looks classy.

  56. I would live in that room. The walls and floor compliment each other beautifully.
    I grew up in a house where every wall was white (except one wall in the kitchen that had blue, maroon, and white plaid wallpaper). The number one thing I am excited about with owning my own house is that I get to choose the colors of every surface. And I have a very similar blue picked out for the living room.

    Meanwhile, my parents just painted the bathroom of their new house… mustard yellow.
    (Actually it works surprisingly well with the lighting and fixtures in that room.)

  58. I’ve been so sick the past couple of weeks, on a antibiotic now, hopefully it will kick the creeping crud right out of me. Your blog posts & pictures brighten my day. Love the color, love that you’re using the fifth wall! I didn’t have the nerve to do the ceiling like that when we repainted this past year. Looks great!

  60. OMG! What a gorgeous color! I had a place where one room was Pepto-Bismol pink on the walls, and the trim was the color Pepto dries to around the opening of the bottle. Weird colors that people choose. Needless to say, painting that room over was the first project I took up!

  64. Great color, lots of natural light. My bedroom is always some shade of blue and the bathroom is always a shade of pink. It makes me happy, the rooms feel comfortable, and my decor always works. My kitchen in Montana had lots of natural light and I painted it a light lemon yellow called candlelight; I loved it. It always felt light and welcoming no matter the season. I can’t do any color with a brown tone, it depresses me. I looked at a condo with saturated ochre and rust colors on the walls. The rooms felt like they were shoebox size and it was totally repellent to me. The flipper painted the entire place a warm cream and it made a huge difference. It felt twice the size and was energizing. Excited to see the rest of your color choices. I am envious of all the windows and the natural light you have, it makes an enormous difference. I hope you are enjoying the process!

  65. Ooo! Love the color! Have you considered painting a couple of walls white so you get the soothing color but also the feeling of larger space?

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