On Trend – Moody Wall Colors

Warm hues and deep, rich shades; how on trend moody wall colors help to make interiors feel more inviting, cozy, and calm.

The majority of our home is painted in whites, creams, tans and grays, but for quite some time, I’ve wanted to paint Luke’s office a deep, dark shade. As you guys know, Luke is English and I was dreaming of an English study for his home office. We already have dark woodwork but imagine for me – wingback chairs, dusty books, cups of tea, falling leaves outside the window and beautiful book cases filled with brass and leather trinkets.

This post is sponsored by my friends at Benjamin Moore. I received some paint and supplies in exchange for this post. All thoughts, beliefs and ideas are my own.

I’m excited to share with you a new paint line by Benjamin Moore.

CENTURY

Century is the most luxurious paint I’ve ever used. The paint is mixed in small batches and comes in 75 beautiful curated shades. The colors are gorgeous and inspired by art and nature. The color card is hand painted. Here you can see a range of the gorgeous colors:

Century is the world’s first Soft Touch Matte paint with an amazing depth of color and soft touch finish. What does that mean exactly? Well, when you touch it, it feels like soft leather. I’m talking about the kidd leather gloves possibly from Italy. I wish I could have you touch our walls. Too bad blogs don’t have that capability.

My local Benjamin Moore retailer is Hingham Lumber and I’d seen the paint there quite a while ago. I knew when I saw the beautiful colors, and felt the samples, that this was the paint I wanted to use in Luke’s office. I had previously painted the office for me and used Revere Pewter. When we bought the house this room was a mustard color. The whole room, after the first makeover, had a French feel but as I told you we’re going English!

Here’s a look at the walls before (snapped this while moving the furniture out):

Part of me has always felt that the warm wood and the cool undertones of the paint were competing and I wanted to find a shade that would, not only compliment the dark wood work, but make it feel rich and luxurious.

I bought 4 samples of Century back in April and Conor and I painted them in the office during the summer.

We tried out Delft (top), Seraphinite (next to door & under delft), Deep Iolite (left) and Blue Muscari (right).

I usually can pick colors without painting samples, but since this is so dramatic and saturated I wanted to get it right. I thought we would go with Blue Muscari but it looked too blue against the woodwork. Deep Iolite looked purple in the room. Seraphinite was the winner!

This color is dreamy. Seraphinite is named after a mineral mined in Russia and Syria by the same name. It’s a gray, green stone with the name meaning the biblical seraphs or seraphim angels due to the feather resemblance of feathers in the stone. This stone is said to have calming and healing properties. Luke loves green, and the green undertones made the woodwork feel warm.

To paint the walls I used a 2″ nylon and polyester brush and 3/8″ nap shed resistant roller both made specifically for use with Century Paint.

I did all the cutting in and edges with the brush, then rolled the rest of the walls. We have textured walls which sometimes can be difficult to paint, but this paint went on wonderfully.

I did one coat on Tuesday and one coat on Wednesday, last week.

Do you want to see a sneak peek?

I also painted the radiator cover and love how it has an old world look now.

Doesn’t it look rich and sophisticated?

While this room still isn’t finished, I have lots more I want to do in here. You can see just how dramatic the makeover was by changing one single thing, the wall color. Century Paint by Benjamin Moore helped to transform this space with its depth of color and moody feel.

It really feels like an English study already.

I dragged in a few elements to give you a better idea of where we’re going:

Every study needs a wing back chair.

Nautical elements, feathers and rich wooden furniture.

I’m excited over the next few weeks to share more updates of this space as we transform it into an English study. Luke now loves working in here. A huge thank you to my friends at Benjamin Moore and my wonderful friends in the paint department at Hingham Lumber. I could’t have transformed the walls without this beautiful paint.

What do you guys think of the new color?

If you enjoyed this post, you might also like this one on the colors of our home.