Example palette: From left to right, all from Valspar: Palm Leaf, Leaf Bud and Amber Pearl.
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Wall color: Intellectual Gray, Sherwin-Williams; couch: Karlstad, Ikea; pillows: One Kings Lane
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Rich, historic and more sophisticated than either green or gray alone, gray-green shifts beautifully with the light. Use this hue in a dining room, kitchen or small sitting room, with off-white trim. The paint color used here is French Gray 18 from Farrow & Ball.
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Braam's Custom Cabinets
This pantry has paint in a medium gray (Benjamin Moore's Edgecomb Gray) that punctuates the lighter paint (Gray Owl) of the kitchen and draws the user into its peaceful surroundings.
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Greige: Wool Skein 6148 by Sherwin Williams
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Greige: Quiver Tan 6151 by Sherwin Williams
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With vaulted ceilings, a stone floor and an open floor plan, this space could easily have looked chilly. But the color (Benjamin Moore's Grant Beige) warms and domesticates the volume and helps anchor the seating areas.
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Rachel Oliver Decorative Design
Is it gray? Is it brown? This color (Behr's Stepping Stones) is hard to pin down, and because of that, it captures your interest without drawing too much attention to itself.
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There are a warmth and softness to this gray (Benjamin Moore's Coventry Gray) that belie any associations we might have with that color.
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There's enough black in this brown (Benjamin Moore's Silhouette) to make it feel totally fresh. And what a great backdrop for the chartreuse accents!
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This color (Benjamin Moore's Bennington Gray) tiptoes on the line between gray and beige, offering the sense of a color while remaining firmly in the neutral camp.
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Leslie Goodwin Photography
Gray for a dining area? Normally, the color is too chilly. But not here, where it's tempered with enough brown to bring some warmth to the table.
Example palette: From left to right, all from Valspar: Palm Leaf, Leaf Bud and Amber Pearl.
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