Maybe learning the Exact Designer Showhouse Paint Colors explored here will be helpful as you choose calm neutrals for your own spaces. Sometimes we simply need a little nudge to get started.
Serene Designer Showhouse Paint Colors to Sample Now!
It helps to have a place to begin when you’re at the beginning of your quest for pretty neutrals to sample. At some point, they all begin to look the same. So why not start with sampling a few getting the thumbs up from an interior designer?
In this particular collection of paint colors from designer showhouse, we’ll explore hues that work as a great backdrop for a variety of interiors and exteriors.
Need a bold blue to sample?
1. Sherwin-Williams PURE WHITE
Here’s a white selected for 2022’s Southeastern Showhouse kitchen, and you can see how its coolness interacts with the warmth of wood cabinetry as well as the bold blue cabinetry.
To see more interiors with SW Pure White, see THIS helpful paint color story!
2. Benjamin Moore OYSTERSHELL
When you’re after a quiet, atmospheric beige, how serene is this one from 2021’s showhouse!?!
Neutrals such as this one with its soft green undertones are lovely with natural linen for tone-on-tone cozy.
3. Neutral Paint Color Idea: SW First Star
The newly constructed 8,000-sf showhouse from 2021 located steps from Buckhead’s Chastain Park, has five bedrooms, seven baths, pool, loggia, gardens and a finished basement. Completed by design-build team Benecki, SOURCE, William T. Baker Residential Design and Land Plus, here is the beautiful exterior:
Sherwin-Williams First Star is similar to Oystershell above and was the exterior color chosen for the home’s cornice above.
Care to see a little more of that beautiful home? Tour it here:
So beautiful, and here’s a reference to PIN and save for later:
4. Benjamin Moore SEAPEARL
It can be a tricky challenge to choose the right white for an exterior so it helps so much to watch design professionals at the top of their game guide us!
(Above) 2020 Southeastern Showhouse exterior (Builder: Jason Cole, Cole Construction | Interior Specifications and Selections: Cydney Mitchell and Brittany Stafford, Source
Beneficiary: The Atlanta History Center). It’s so sophisticated and the picture of timeless tranquility thanks to Seapearl and Pashmina.
A smart strategy to ensure a color is the right one for your unique project? Order samples to get delivered straight to your door with Samplize. These peel and stick sheets of “paint” will stick on your wall yet easily move around to other walls! When you view multiple samples side by side, suddenly their differences emerge. Boom!
Care to see more Seapearl?
Go inside for the 2020 tour!
The style? “As close to Santa Barbara as you can get without moving” with plaster walls, unique finishes, pools, and a turfed rear courtyard as well as trails punctuated by original sculpture.
Here’s the neutral color in a bedroom:
Not a paint color, but a pretty detail to note!
Traditional Style White Bedroom With Seapearl
Do you love Seapearl with these warm wood tones?
It’s pretty amazing in this bath with glazed tile and brass hardware:
Ever seen a curvy shower like this one?
SEAPEARL Paint Color With BM Stonington Gray
5. Benjamin Moore PASHMINA
6. Benjamin Moore MARITIME WHITE
See Maritime White Outside of a Showhouse
What’s Next on Our Reno List?
A year ago at this time we were customizing our primary bedroom’s walk-in closet. It turned out so great and was the last project needing our attention. Here it is:
While we don’t have any high-stress renovations on the horizon, we still need to make up our minds about (1) shelves and/or tongue and groove in the kitchen and (2) changes to our unfinished basement.
We would like to add a bath and a bit more finishing so it feels more pleasant for playing pool.
We’re also finishing an outdoor fun project…a French country courtyard secret garden.
While the surrounding hedge was already there, the concrete surface was in pretty rough shape.
Since we love gravel and river rock, we are adding that to clean it all up and bring a serene presence to the space. Speaking of changes and fixes…
When I consider the wise words of BBT above, my husband and our sons spring to mind. I long to love them more purely in this way. To cease the fixing, convincing, controlling, and brainstorming of great ideas that would solve their problems. The thing is, freeing them of my fixes also frees me. And I do love getting free!
Thank you for visiting this blog. What a strange wilderness the internet and social media continue to be. I hold it all rather loosely, knowing the landscape is ever in flux. Helping you choose paint colors is a small thing, yet I hope to continue to provide resources and inspiration just the same.
Glancing Back at Past Showhouses
Inspiration from 2018’s Southeastern Designer Showhouse
My favorite Atlanta designer, Sherry Hart of Design Indulgence, snapped these photos in 2018:
Traditional Style Living Room by Beth Webb
I shared my fondness for the designer’s gorgeous book An Eye for Beauty right here in this story.
English Country Mud Room by Helen Davis Hanavich
I spy hardworking Savannah Utility Baskets to store essentials beautifully in this gorgeous mud room!
Traditional English Country Kitchen by Matthew Quinn
I may or may not have three timeless marble bowls upon my counter this very instant…classic indeed.
English Country Style Butler Pantry
Also see THIS and THIS in case you missed ’em!
Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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