Timeless Paint Colors for Your Home (UPDATED)
As soon as my husband and I got married, we started house hunting and I was dreaming about a future fixer-upper and all the paint colors I'd love to have in my home, which is pretty random, I know! But fun fact: my dad is a painter by trade, so I've always been so inspired by how much paint can truly transform not only a room but an entire home!
Whenever I see homes I love on Instagram or Pinterest, I always want to know their paint colors!! So I thought I would share the colors in and around our home because they are all keepers in my book!
OUR HOME’S EXTERIOR / SHERWIN WILLIAMS MINDFUL GRAY
We spent the majority of our summer last year painting the exterior of our house, it's one of those projects that you plan on only taking a couple of weeks at most, but quickly turns into a couple of months haha! One thing to keep in mind when you’re choosing a paint color for the outside of your home is that it will look lighter once it’s on the house than you’d expect from the paint chip (basically the opposite of how it works for interior paint colors).
FRONT DOOR / SHERWIN WILLIAMS TRICORN BLACK
We just recently installed a new front door and if you were following along on Instagram stories, then you know about the great paint debate. Haha! Originally I left the window grids on the door white and I did not love it, but then all of our wonderful friends on Insta told me to paint the grids, so I did and now I LOVE IT. It’s such a beautiful color!
LIVING ROOM, DINING ROOM, and BEDROOMS / SHERWIN WILLIAMS ALABASTER
Before we moved into our home, my dad painted almost all of the rooms in our house Alabaster and it brightened everything up so much! It's the best bright, creamy, cozy color that doesn't make a room look too stark white!!
LIVING ROOM ACCENT WALL / SHERWIN WILLIAMS CYBERSPACE
This was our most recent paint project and it's definitely one of my very favorites! You can read all about it here. It's really hard to capture the exact color in a photo, but I think it's the prettiest dark blue that almost looks charcoal gray in some lighting. It was the perfect accent color in our almost all white interior!
KITCHEN & MUDROOM / SHERWIN WILLIAMS PURE WHITE
This is actually the color of our ceiling and all of the trim as well! It's a very true white without any significant blue or yellow undertones. I love it because it just feels so fresh and clean! The cabinets and trim are in satin and the shiplap is in flat.
BATHROOM / SHERWIN WILLIAMS mountain road
Okay, so this isn’t my bathroom color YET, but it will be very soon!! This the color we painted our checkout counter at Grace + Gather and Bryana also just painted her bathroom vanity this color as well! We just can’t get enough of it! It’s the prettiest muted, earthy green and I am hoping to repaint my bathroom in the next couple of weeks (fingers crossed)! Haha
There are SO many paint colors out there that it can be overwhelming and sometimes hard to find exactly the right color, but with these timeless colors, you really can't go wrong!!
Before committing to a paint color, I highly recommend bringing the paint chips or paint samples home to test the colors out in your house during different times of the day so you know it will be exactly what you’re looking for.