I’m in the final throes of designing my new kitchen, and that means paint! I find this process horrendous. I’ve been using a combination of the Benjamin Moore Color Capture app, a site that converts paint names to hex called Encycolorpedia, and an app called Coolors that generates good color combinations.
None of this is science, of course, since every color is different on every screen and in every kitchen context (and in every weather, really). But I was getting frustrated that there was nowhere I could simply see the colors I was considering all together in some reasonably accurate relative spatial relations, and quickly know what the paint names were. I was getting frustrated with the BM app for not letting me save more than 5 colors in one favorites “group.” And I was getting frustrated with the BM website’s “paint your kitchen” feature because their sample kitchen looks nothing like mine.
So I’ve added WordPress and simplenote to the mix. In simplenote I’ve listed all my colors by name, number, and hex, organized by which surface they’re for (accent wall, other wall, ceiling, etc.), and I’ve rigged up a table in HTML that vaguely looks like one corner of my kitchen. Then it’s easy to cut and paste and recombine into this WordPress post.
I’m going to keep playing with the colors, so more combos will be added here as I explore and refine things.
Let me know if you have any feedback about my process these colors!
The one thing I found frustrating is that I just wanted to do an inline style sheet before each table to declare the colors neatly all in one place, but of course WP won’t let you do that. Any ideas?
| frostine af-5 | ||
| twilight 2058-10 | paper white 1590 | |
| (cabinets and backsplash) | ||
| (counter) | ||
| (cabinets) | ||
| (floor) | ||
| frostine af-5 | ||
| verdigris 685 | paper white 1590 | |
| (cabinets and backsplash) | ||
| (counter) | ||
| (cabinets) | ||
| (floor) | ||
| frostine af-5 | ||
| mozart blue 1665 | silvery moon 1604 | |
| (cabinets and backsplash) | ||
| (counter) | ||
| (cabinets) | ||
| (floor) | ||
| frostine af-5 | ||
| silver mink 1586 | paper white 1590 | |
| (cabinets and backsplash) | ||
| (counter) | ||
| (cabinets) | ||
| (floor) | ||
| frostine af-5 | ||
| mount saint anne 1565 | paper white 1590 | |
| (cabinets and backsplash) | ||
| (counter) | ||
| (cabinets) | ||
| (floor) | ||
| frostine af-5 | ||
| monarch gold 1109 | simply white OC-117 | |
| (cabinets and backsplash) | ||
| (counter) | ||
| (cabinets) | ||
| (floor) | ||
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