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Almost October and the geraniums in the crowd ;) look just perfect.
This is one geranium, with a euphorbia, all in one pot....
I have never begun a room with paint. Maybe it's a rug, maybe it's the bedding, maybe it's art. But four blank walls and flooring is too much a blank slate, especially when paint technology will allow a tweak of a color to a fraction of what you see on a chip.
How are you sampling, ..........and you seem to be doing this?!
No, no, and . NO one thousand times.
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No wonder you are stuck! Nobody can tell the effect of a color on four walls in a room from that! I mean nobody.
Why green at all, unless there is something you have with a certain green in it ( other than the window? ) ? Why taupe? What is the why of Coastal Fog or ANY other color?
Sheen alone can highlight trim, even when painted same color as walls, and there is no law that dictates highlight beyond that, unless it is what you want. Is the stained glass window becoming your dictator? It should not be. You installed it? It was not in the previous owners room....or they blanked it ?
Rorah up above gave you two pretty mock ups, but with a FINISHED room. Wildly different paint colors, right?
Begin with something other than the paint, because any good Ben Moore store can match a leaf in a tree, or grass on the ground.
LRV is not a thing I wring a hand on. Sorry to the techs. I look at a color and ask....What is the sense of the color? what am I going for? If I see a hint of some hue I do not want? I know the flaw will be be magnified on four walls.
My client fought me tooth and nail on this room below. I WANTED to swallow the matched furniture he so loved, looming starkly against sad panty hose tan walls, .....I won.
What's the name of it? Can't remember, but the painting was the kick start because it was one of his favorites, Also a toile on a wing chair not in view. It's not an "exact" match, it is the sense of the oil painting and harmonizes with the toile.
Once in a while, I want more than what any paint color will deliver.....sometimes it's a grass cloth
Or I want a neutral that doesn't go flat and adding texture and depth in a grass is lovely.
What is my point in all of this? I will use Rosemary Sprig as example, three images.... Which is most appealing, and I ask rhetorically....as you note the paint names on the first, where ANY of the three shades of green would have been successful.
Beginnings are not paint. the feeling is the beginning. Gather the rest of the room, and until you have true inspiration, be it a rug, a painting, a fabulous lumbar pillow, a duvet cover, SOMETHING? Paint all your tests away clean up, Rolllll and use Ben Moore Navajo White. You may even decide to keep it.
See OP’s other post - https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6587949/tudor-exterior-update
I like the brick.
I would paint the trim above the garage door to match the house's trim and leave the garage door the color of the light-colored siding.
A simple wood valance, either painted or stained, to hide the shade as Patricia suggests would work. No need to try and match fabrics. There are lots of vendors on Etsy selling them.
Another angle
Perhaps something even narrower like this would work https://www.chairish.com/product/4777356/english-mahogany-cabinet
thank you guys for the suggestions 😊
Mirrors on the walls are not going to make or break a sale. The two steps down into the living room could break a sale.
Add some grids.
how about something like this - https://www.zappos.com/p/womens-easy-spirit-velia-taupe-suede/product/9988909/color/691?utm_source=google&utm_medium=pla_x&utm_campaign=23709491238&utm_term=_o_59381408&utm_content=_g__w__l_CjwKCAjwoOjVBhArEiwAUwDak_y-sVELcp8Utt_gPqGnlYC2F6xJhBSgmBXP-37PjsjxQn13KRKA4hoCu8oQAvD_BwE&gbraid=0AAAAADnIwa873DcULVSmrfc83hCbnKJsl&gclid=CjwKCAjwoOjVBhArEiwAUwDak_y-sVELcp8Utt_gPqGnlYC2F6xJhBSgmBXP-37PjsjxQn13KRKA4hoCu8oQAvD_BwE
Or this - https://www.zappos.com/p/womens-anne-klein-wendell-truffle/product/10017184/color/705?utm_source=google&utm_medium=pla_x&utm_campaign=23709491238&utm_term=_o_60050950&utm_content=_g__w__l_CjwKCAjwoOjVBhArEiwAUwDak0zW6wtp_qCDYwJe_AWw9r0PrXiGl9PFXLAFLzU2E1gFPqKgdKkFfRoCQaYQAvD_BwE&gbraid=0AAAAADnIwa873DcULVSmrfc83hCbnKJsl&gclid=CjwKCAjwoOjVBhArEiwAUwDak0zW6wtp_qCDYwJe_AWw9r0PrXiGl9PFXLAFLzU2E1gFPqKgdKkFfRoCQaYQAvD_BwE
If you like Danskos
I really like those Danskos, but they are more like a boot. The other two are not to my liking. It just seems that this is the only year that I have struggled finding somthing. So MANY are more like tennis shoes….wide rubber soles, etc. I like some of them very much, but not to wear when I go to appointments or to volunteer jobs. I am not dressed up, but I do not want to wear ” gym wear”.