Interior Palette

I know I promised to post these much earlier, but things have been up in the air a lot lately. At least I finally got around to showing everyone my plans for the colors in our new house! Here they are:

"Sweet Spiceberry" (Olympic). This is for the walls in the dining room, which also happens to be the first room upon entering the house.

"Magnolia Spray" (Olympic). I'll be using this for the ceilings and above chair rails in all but the bathroom. It's hard to tell in this picture, but the color is a lovely sort of heavy, peachy cream

"Applesauce Cake" (Olympic). This is the main color for the interior. It's going on walls in the living room, kitchen, hallway, closets, pretty much anywhere that other colors aren't specified.

"Vineyard Green" (Olympic). This is for the walls of that adorable sunroom just off the living room. I'm still not sure if it's too dark, but only a test patch on the actual wall will show for sure.

"Sweet Annie" (Olympic). Yes, this is the same olive-y green that I want to use for exterior trim. It's also going to be on the current bathroom walls. Really, it looks much less like pea soup in person!

"Cinnamon Diamonds" (Olympic). This is the color I originally planned for the walls of our guest room. As our guest room will be our master bedroom until the attic is finished off, I suppose we'll be living with this color for a while.

"Grape Leaves" (Behr). Has the same name as one of the exterior colors we picked. This will be on the walls of our older son's room.

"Blue Agave" (Behr). This is for the walls in the baby's room. Sorry about the size, this is the only sample I could get of this color.

"Ocean Kiss" (Behr). When we add a second, master bath, this will be on the walls.

"Juniper Berry" (Olympic). And last of all, this color will be on the walls in our attic master bedroom. Just as soon as we get it built, that is!

Possible Face Lift, House Colors

This is one version of what our house may look like after some new paint, decorative framework, and new transoms. The upstairs window would be recessed to the master bedroom so that we could screen in a private sleeping porch in the front gable. I'm not sure what exactly we'll end up doing with the transoms, maybe stained glass or leaded mullions. Have to take a look around the area to see what was appropriate at the time our house was built. S.L.C. has loads of restored homes in their downtown, hopefully some of them are from the same time frame. Keep in mind that the wooden baluster fence around the entire yard will be the light green color of the framework and trim.

THIS, or THIS?

We've been scrambling to come up with an exterior paint scheme, just in case VA requires the house to be painted. I don't want to have it painted & then get there and have to strip it all off again before I paint. So a general direction sort of thing would be nice, in case they need to put up 1 or 2 colors. We do plan on eventually going with a 5-color scheme, but are still working that out. So for now, here are the candidates:

my favorites, from Olympic(Lowes)


R's favorites, also from Olympic, and Laura Ashley Home(Lowes) oop, sorry about the rotation!

And remember, this is all in addition to the gray asphalt roof and red brick. Please tell us which one you like better!