Let's share our favorite paint colors!

[The Nester]

You know the one that took you eight colors to find? That one that looks fantastic no matter what time of day? I'll start....my personal favorite color is Tobacco Road from Duron paints {they don't make it anymore but, they'll mix it for you if you ask}. It's a golden color that looks great with any color but pink!

Your turn now!

[~JJ!]

We just painted my home...My living room is Benjamin Moore (Aura) in Cotswold.... friggin love this color.

[Kristi]

We'll be using Aura for our red color and a dark color in the powder room. I hear red is hard to get good coverage and they tell me the Aura is 2 coats guaranteed with no tinted primer needed!

[Natalie]

Bonjour Beige ~ Home Depot (Glidden) ... goes with anything! I recently put a gold glaze over it in my entryway ceiling and it looks AWESOME!!

[Alana Kirsch]

I LOVE that color! Painted my den and kitchen in Bonjour Beige!

[Jennifer]

I've got something similar to that. It's Arabian Sands by Behr. I found it at my mom's house. My sister redecorated their living room (it now looks like it came straight from a magazine) and this was one of the colors she used. It adds enough color to make it more interesting than white but not too dark. I've got it through every room I couldn't decide on a color in my house.

[Emily]

I am a SW girl. My fave is Afternoon. It's in my living room. And I am about to do my kitchen in Lounge Green from SW. I hope it works out well!

I am too lazy to attach pics here. Afternoon is on the walls in my living room that can be seen on my bloggy blog.

I love that Tobacco Road! It looks a lot like what I have in my bedroom!

[Kristi]

I must say, instead of going through a dozen colors until MAYBE we found the right one, I hired a color specialist for figuring out several rooms. I love this one from Benjamin Moore in our family room:

It's called Twilight Gold ((1069). It made the room look bigger, yet warmer and cozier. It makes everything in it look better.

My husband just painted a bit of the hallway in one shade lighter - Squire Hill Buff. After that we are on to the dining room with a reddish color - Potter's Wheel. Eeek. I'm so afraid of any red on walls, but I'm going to try to trust the color specialist.

[Rhoda]

Oh, I love talking paint! In fact, I'm about to do a post about paint on my blog soon. Love that Tobacco Road too, have seen several friends use it. I have one that's very similar, SW Whole Wheat all throughout my house, with lighter & darker shades used too. It's a wonderful golden/tan color too. Works well with all my fabrics.
There are lots of great colors out there & choosing the right one can be daunting. One of my favorite greens is Laura Ashley Olive 4. I have it in my kitchen & it's a very nice pear/lime/olive green.

Kristi, reds can be hard to get right. I used Kilz paint in my DR in red called Vesuvian Garnet & it totally covered in 2 coats over a light yellow. So, I can recommend Kilz (from Walmart) for great coverage in red.

[Jenni]

Hmmm... when they come up with a color that coordinates with spit-up and Fisher-Price toys, then I can relate. Right now, my favorite paint color is the one with the least amount of crayon marks on it!

[The Nester]

Oh, me likes all the photos!

Don't you just love the paint names too! They can make or break a color as far as I'm concerned! Another color that I wrote about in my blog is Svelte Sage: a Sherwin Williams color. It's a warm, robin's egg blue with some green in it. Doesn't it sound so svelty? I love to say Svelte. Svelte, svelte, svelte.

[Judi]

Oh how I remember this. I searched and searched for a nice green color, I kept saying, "Like the color you see in all the magazines." I must have went through a hundred paint chips. I thought I found the perfect color and came home and painted two walls. I HATED that color so much that I made my husband go and buy primer so I could prime over them before days end. I didn't even want to wake up to that color. (NOT to mention that I dropped the paintbrush from the ladder all over the carpet, and then preceded to bump the ladder and knocked the whole trim cup off the 12 foot ladder onto my country sofa.) Hence the beginning of the change of furniture styles.

Then next day I went to Sherwin Williams and found the perfect green for me, I believe it is called ryegrass. I love this color in my living room.

[Emily]

I love that color!

What's your kitchen color that I just saw in another pic? Is that a SW color too?

I want to do my kitchen a green and really like that Ryegrass. I may have to try it.