![]() Black isn’t usually a popular choice in house paint colors, but can make a great impact! I wanted to make it feel more modern while keeping the charm of the tile, so I decided to make the whole space dark. Our main level has one small bathroom with amazing original 1940’s tile. The rest of the walls and cabinets in this room, including all of the vertical shiplap trim, is Mandi White. I painted all the cabinets myself with my trusty paint sprayer, and they are beautiful. Sherwin-Williams Alexandrite turned out to be the perfect color to capture the feeling of joy and love in this space. The next fun color you will encounter in our home is our bright, happy green kitchen! I knew I wanted some fun color in this small kitchen space, and kept coming back to the lovely aging look of verdigris copper which has sort of a bluish green hue. The color also plays well with my favorite dusty pink chair, and my collection of vintage southwestern landscape paintings. I love the way the dusty pink room brightens up the whole main living area of the house! It is the most beautiful color (I was inspired by the gorgeous pink buildings in Rome). One of the first places you notice this warmth, when you come through the front door, is in our Cabbage Rose sun room. With a base of Extra White on all of the walls and trim, I set out to customize our little home with cozy corners and touches of fun paint colors to make it feel welcoming and whimsical. I love the brightness of clean, white walls, and my go-to color has always been Sherwin-Williams Extra White with an extra 4 oz of white added per gallon, to make the custom mix my friend Mandi of Vintage Revivals calls “Mandi White.” The final color on our exterior is the porch ceiling, which we wanted to paint a beautiful light blue (or “Haint Blue” as they say in the South.) I took one of our backyard chicken eggs to Sherwin-Williams and color-matched it to the lovely Rainwashed. Likewise, the exterior trim came pre-colored in James Hardie Bright White, but we did have to paint the existing wooden door trim and other areas on the porch with the color match of Sherwin-Williams Extra White. The perfect match is Sherwin-Williams Naval. This appealed to us because of the long-lasting durability of having exterior siding that never needs to be painted or touched up again! Even though the siding isn’t actually painted, we did want a great color match so we could paint our backyard clubhouse to match. The James Hardie siding is pre-colored, meaning the color is formulated into the boards themselves. After completing our front porch addition, we decided to use James Hardie cement board siding in Deep Ocean. While traveling in Amsterdam a few years ago I fell in love with the beautiful, dark house exteriors, and decided I wanted my next house to be dark blue. I came to our first showing of the house with a photoshopped rendering in hand of my vision for the exterior (complete with new, moody blue siding and a huge front porch addition.) When we bought Our Richmond Fixer Upper in early 2018, we knew we would be doing a full interior and exterior renovation. In the last two years, we have brought all of our interior and exterior dreams for this home to life in our fixer upper, and I wanted to answer an often-asked question in one place: “What paint colors did you use?!” ![]()
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