What Color Should I Paint My Walk-In Closet Island?

Effectively, I didn’t get a single factor executed in my walk-in closet this weekend. It’s a vacation weekend right here within the U.S., and for a change, I put completely no stress on myself to get issues executed, and I did so with zero guilt. I spent my weekend sitting at my desk within the studio (my favourite place in our home) updating the house tour page on my blog. So if you’d like see the entire befores and afters of each room in our home in a single place, or get paint shade data, you’ll be able to try that web page.

And I hadn’t even deliberate on being right here this morning. Because it’s a vacation, I had deliberate on spending this vacation sleeping in, adopted by a pleasant breakfast and perhaps watching a film with Matt. However I used to be woke up simply earlier than 6:00am by loud thunder, vivid lightening, and a great deal of rain pounding on the home windows as a thunderstorm rolled via. So I acquired up and went again to my pleased place.

I’ve formally turn out to be a morning individual, which is so unusual. All of my grownup life, I’ve been an evening owl. I may keep up till 2:00am or later and had a tough time making myself to go to mattress. Then morning would come, and I’d battle a lot to get my day began. However over this final 12 months, I’ve discovered that my favourite time of day is definitely early morning, earlier than the solar comes up, when the home is darkish, the neighborhood is quiet and nonetheless, Matt remains to be sleeping, and I get an hour or two at my desk, with Cooper curled up at my toes, whereas I sit below the tender glowing gentle of the pendant gentle above my desk. I truly sit up for it each single evening after I go to mattress. Who’ve I turn out to be? 😀

Anyway, this morning throughout these darkish, quiet hours at my desk, I performed round with some completely different colours for my closet island. I had deliberate on portray it the identical shade as the cupboards — Sherwin Williams Billowy Blue. I even purchased the paint for it since I had run out of paint whereas portray the cupboards. However a number of folks have advised portray it an accent shade.

At first, I type of recoiled on the thought as a result of I assumed an accent shade would compete with the wallpaper. However this morning, I began contemplating it extra severely just because I believe it would truly spotlight the wallpaper moderately than compete with it. So utilizing my picture editor, I picked out some colours from the primary massive flowers within the wallpaper and examined them out on a really tough mockup of the island.

First, right here’s what Billowy Breeze would appear like. Ignore the grey outlines. I actually used a line drawing of the island for the mockup. The precise island gained’t have any grey on it.

However right here’s a sampling of the colours that I picked out from these massive pink flowers. First up is a pink that appears prefer it has only a contact of purple in it…

Subsequent is a pink that’s a little bit extra distinguished within the wallpaper.

And that is probably the most distinguished gentle pink within the wallpaper.

However then I made a decision to attempt the darkest pinkish pink shade from these large flowers.

This one can be from the middle of the large flowers, nevertheless it has a contact of orange to it.

That is the coralish/orange from the large flowers, nevertheless it’s most likely my least favourite because it appears to struggle with the pinks. And the pinks are probably the most distinguished colours within the wallpaper.

And right here’s a lighter model of that shade, which can be from the large flowers, however isn’t as distinguished because the pinks.

I don’t know, y’all. I could love an accent shade in spite of everything! And since this can be a walk-in closet, it doesn’t need to be too critical, proper? I can have a little bit enjoyable with it. And naturally, it’s simply paint. If I don’t prefer it, I can all the time return to Billowy Breeze. Ought to I check out one among these accent colours? And needless to say the countertop will probably be a pretend marble, so it is going to be largely white. After which I’ll have the white flowery chandelier above the island. I believe I’m leaning in the direction of an accent shade now!

Right here’s a side-by-side view of the Billowy Breeze and the accent shade that’s most likely my favourite.

What do you assume? Ought to I stick to Billowy Breeze? Or ought to I’ve some enjoyable with it and do an accent shade?

UPDATE: I ought to have anticipated that many individuals would recommend the darkish blue of the wallpaper background. I’d love that! I did attempt it out, and it’s lovely, nevertheless it’s not an possibility.

I’ll be the primary to confess that that’s completely attractive. However right here’s the deal. The lobby simply exterior the closet doorway will probably be teal, and people will conflict. I chosen this wallpaper as a result of it has the darkish blue in it (which is able to match my washer and dryer) in addition to some shades of teal sprinkled all through to bridge the darkish blue and the teal. However I nonetheless wish to maintain the large blue objects separated from the teal lobby.

In order that just about guidelines out portray the island darkish blue, which is able to convey the blue proper as much as the teal lobby. But it surely additionally guidelines out portray the island a darkish teal, which might additionally look attractive, however which might convey the teal proper as much as the blue washer and dryer.

And since my washer and dryer are blue — solely blue with no trace of inexperienced in them — in my thoughts, the blues and teals want to remain separated with far.

Maybe there’s a darkish blue on the market that has only a contact of inexperienced, however not a lot inexperienced that it truly appears teal, so that it’ll nonetheless look good with the washer and dryer, however simply sufficient inexperienced in it that it gained’t conflict with the lobby grasscloth wallpaper. Perhaps that shade exists. However that is perhaps like trying to find a unicorn. I can attempt although!

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