We have been living in this house four years in February. We had the house painted inside that March. I love paint. I love color. I love playing around with color. So it's amazing that I waited this long to change it. I loved the color that I had it painted originally. (Benjamin Moore ~ Roasted Sesame Seed #2160-40 ) But not knowing that the southern exposure that is the front of my house combined with that color would make the foyer BRIGHT! Usually I would say bright is good. But it was too bright for me.
I ended up choosing Penny (#2163-30 ) the same color I painted my family room four years ago. (It's really darn close to the color of a penny too) It's warm, inviting, exactly the feeling I want when you walk through my front door. Here's some before and after...
Stair case/foyer before in Roasted Sesame Seed...I still like the color but as you can see from the pictures the light really affects the color:
see how bright!
After painted it Penny:
After a lot of hemming and hawing about what brown to use, I let hubby rush me in Lowes to pick out a different brown from the BM (Benjamin Moore) color I had originally selected. I was really there to buy paint to do the foyer table/mirror. So in haste I picked out a color. I still wonder how one is supposed to pick out paint in fluorescent lighting. We brought it home and YUCK! It was sooo dark. The foyer would have looked like a cave. (I ended up using it as the undercoat to the table/mirror, whereas when I painted the furniture with it, it looked way more like the brown I thought I was buying....grr to flourescent lighting)
Off to the local BM paint store I went, where I should have went in the first place. Yes it's more expensive than paint from Lowes. But BM is always the color I imagined it would be when it goes up on the wall. I don't have any vested interest in Benjamin Moore paint, I just know it has never done me wrong. There are other even more expensive brands of paint you can buy, when I find something I like I usually stick with it. Not to say that you couldn't get a good result with Behr's or Valspar...I just know what I like. Plus, I have my paint fans that I bought from BM that I am in LOVE with. It's a sickness. I love to look over the colors and imagine what I would paint with them and if someone wants me to help them pick out a color for their house....look out! I am all over that!!!!!!!!
Off to the local BM paint store I went, where I should have went in the first place. Yes it's more expensive than paint from Lowes. But BM is always the color I imagined it would be when it goes up on the wall. I don't have any vested interest in Benjamin Moore paint, I just know it has never done me wrong. There are other even more expensive brands of paint you can buy, when I find something I like I usually stick with it. Not to say that you couldn't get a good result with Behr's or Valspar...I just know what I like. Plus, I have my paint fans that I bought from BM that I am in LOVE with. It's a sickness. I love to look over the colors and imagine what I would paint with them and if someone wants me to help them pick out a color for their house....look out! I am all over that!!!!!!!!
I ended up choosing Penny (#2163-30 ) the same color I painted my family room four years ago. (It's really darn close to the color of a penny too) It's warm, inviting, exactly the feeling I want when you walk through my front door. Here's some before and after...
Stair case/foyer before in Roasted Sesame Seed...I still like the color but as you can see from the pictures the light really affects the color:
see how bright!After painted it Penny:
