Painting - how to bring all my colors together in painting

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ursuladread
06-21-02, 08:26 AM
i just recently purchased a house and i am NOT happy with a bath. my bathroom tile is white and the trim of the tile is like a goldish but the toilet paper holder, towel holder is like lime green. my tub is yellow-gold. the floor is a dark hunter green with a mixture of gray. what color can a paint my walls and my trim?


tsparky79
06-21-02, 02:33 PM
:) I'm trying to picture this in my head and what I came up with I can see why you don't like it.If it were me first I would do away with the lime green it does not fit the room at all.I would go with an eggshell white on the walls, and do what is called featherdusting with a gold,hunter green,and the gray.Then I would do my trim in a high gloss white .And if you don't get new towel holders and thay can be painted I would go with the white trim color on them.Featherdusting is very simple You buy a very small amount of the colors you want to use half pint or pint.When your base color is dry that would be eggsell white you start your featherdusting. You can do one color at a time or all three , you put your paint in a buckett that you can get the whole end of the featherduster in .You dip the very ends of the feathers in the paint and pull it up giveing it a good shake at the top of the bucket.Just pat your wall softly untill you see how much of the color you want on it. Do this with all three color it should look like wall paper that brings all three colors together. Then finish up by doing your trim.I know your saying it sounds like a lot of work but really it's not it takes about ten minutes to featherdust a 12ft.-14ft.room so good luck hope this helps.:D

jpaykel
06-22-02, 05:14 PM
Here's an idea if you don'w want to try your hand at faux finishing:

It sounds like it would be expensive to replace the floor, tub, and/or tile. So you're stuck with hunter green, yellow-gold, and white. I would say, make it look like the hunter green and gold was intentional! Take all the paint strips in the green range from your local hardware store. Then find a green that comes close to matching the hunter green. Then look to the middle-to-light side of the paint strip. Try that color. Get a quart and paint it on a piece of scrap wood first, just to test. It will look like you meant the green to be there all along! Your color scheme could be green, with gold accents...hopefully this suits your tastes. (I'm a Green Bay Packer fan, so it works just fine for me!!) If not, you could still build from the green, but go with a complimentary color, e.g. its opposite on the color wheel, red. Or go with three colors next to each other on the color wheel...gold (yellow), green, and blue. Just test everything first, and good luck!