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Old 03-03-2016, 08:31 AM
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This is a long shot, but take a look at Behr's Country Cork.........

I have used this on the highest part of a tray ceiling with Smoked Tan on the walls. In the part that transitions from the walls, I used Greywood. (I wish Greywood had shown up with a little more contrast with the Smoked Tan, but I can live with it.) The effect of the combination is warm but not too yellow. (I was working backwards from an adjoining master bath that had been newly tiled in gray when we bought the house.)

Behr's Country Cork and Smoked Tan worked out really well for me. I had been agonizing over Behr's Coordinated Palettes, online, between trips to the paint department. I was pulling gray and cream and dark wood together. I finally got what works, for me. I bought a wonderful, colorful painting at one of the art shows here. That painting makes a joyful statement above a desk between two windows in the room.

My favorite thing about using shades of neutral is that it is so easy to pop in accesories and art with lots of color.

Well, I think it is way too obvious that I like to talk about decorating. I have been that way since I was a kid and took an antiquing kit to my bedroom furniture, rendering it a hideous shade of olive/avocado green that I thought was beautiful. But, hey, it was the 60s so it was.

Anyway, maybe take a look at Behr's Country Cork.

Earlier in this thread, I said that I sometimes ask the person mixing the paint what is in the formula. I cannot remember exactly, but I think that one was rust and black and a small touch of some version of yellow -- but not much. I might be remembering wrong. I just know Country Cork worked for what I was trying to do because it was not toooooo anything and pulled things together.

Good luck with your choices.

Boomer

PS: I just looked again at your pictures. Country Cork or maybe even Smoked Tan might pull your stainless appliances nicely into the mix with the creams and dark browns. ------ Ohhhhh, I blush but must confess that nosey me is hoping you will let us know how it goes.

Last edited by Boomer; 03-03-2016 at 08:51 AM.