We Sought Out Home Depot's Advise and Behr Paints For Our Color Palet

With lots of painting to do and lots of surfaces to cover we sought out the help of the paint experts at Home Depot. They took the time to understand the surfaces we were covering as well as the look and style we wanted. There recommendation? Behr paints.

Behr had all of the colors, textures and coverage options we were looking for at a reasonable price. Together,they helped us put together a color pallet for Sylvia using the full array of Behr textures and colors.

The kitchen was going country chic. We were using faux tin panels for the back splash and ceiling and wanted some bright yet traditional colors to enhance the natural light that poured through the windows.

We found a green/gray we liked in Ralph Lauren's collection of "Suede". Home Depot was able to take that paint chip and color match it into a Behr Marquee paint that would become the base wall color.

With dark chocolate brown base cabinets and dark granite counter tops the cupboards had to "POP" We selected a simi gloss in Behr Fundamentals called Honey Tea.. it's a rich mustard yellow that pops against the darker green walls.

Behr custom matched green on the left and Behr Fundamentals Honey Tea on the right.

Since we had already decided to treat the expando as a separate room ( more on that later) we needed to complement the totally "country" look of that in the connected living room. There was lots of dark chocolate brown trim in the room that we would keep plus the need to accent one wall in a color that would both connect with the "country" expando and  kitchen.

    Home Depot found the perfect combination:

This is Meditation Time  a cool gray toned green that blends perfectly with the darker green from the kitchen .

For the rest of the room including the ceiling we chose Behr Home Decorators Collection Warm Marshmallow. This image doesn't do it justice as it is a much warmer cream.

For the trim we stayed with the creamy earth tones and chose another color from the Behr Home Decorators Collection this time selecting Merino Wool. A warm toned natural beige .

The hallway in Sylvia is twenty eight feet long so it needed to stay light and bright. We had already decided to use lightweight plywood on the bottom half of the exterior wall and add a chair rail molding and a light gray white brick motif. So the color had to be equally light and bright. For that we selected  Behr Home Decorators Collection Weathered White.

This color worked well with the choices I had made for my craft room. It would be the perfect ceiling and trim paint as well as coordinate with the rich style we had selected for the bathroom.

For my craft room I wanted WOW. Bright, happy colors that would make the smaller room a unique spot. It only took one look at the Behr Marquee Odyssey Collection to choose my "style"

This fabulous blue is Adonis and it will be on the exterior wall and on the hallway wall. 

Because this room used to have a closet with under storage there is a alcove and for that wall I choose this popping, hopping green called Pistachio. It will make the entire room just pop. The largest wall, trim and ceiling will be painted in our hallway color of  Weathered White. On that wall we plan to use stencils to do various color Zinnias.. 

We're not going to reveal the Expando, Master Bedroom or Bath decor just yet. But stay tuned. The painting is about to begin!!