New Paint Color for the Studio - Like an Ice Cream Sundae

I finally decided on a color for the walls of the Twice Remembered Cottage. It was hard. I drove myself crazy with it, even after receiving tons of helpful suggestions and advice from you all. White walls versus off-white walls. It was {seemingly} as simple as that.

I really wanted all white. White walls, white beadboard, white trim. Every shade of off-white that I sampled, and there were many, were just...off...and left me longing for white yet again. I guess maybe that's because we've lived with some form of beige since we moved here. Here is a photo of the color of the walls of the studio when we first moved in.


At one point, though, I wanted something completely different. So I tried a shade of robin's egg blue-ish color. I did love that color, but I also loved the lighter "feel" of the kitchen wall color and decided I wanted to recreate that in the studio.


So we painted again. We used the same color we used in the kitchen. Hubs was not happy about repainting.


Soon I found myself craving all white. The studio gets tons of sun, so I envisioned a bright heavenly white space to call my own...Going to "work" each day would be like stepping out onto clouds on a sunny day!

{A} Hubs did not want to repaint...again.

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{B} He was not into all white at all. He didn't want all the beadboard and trimwork hidden, he said.

Hubs did not want to repaint...again.

After getting over the first hurdle - convincing him to spend money on paint one more time, I needed to come up with a shade that satisfied us both. Enter a million samples of off-white that were all wrong, wrong, wrong.

Finally, on the brilliant suggestion of one dear reader, I took the beige-y paint that was on the studio walls {the same color that is in the kitchen and living room} and mixed it with about 95% pure white - the color of our beadboard and trim. The result was just lovely! In the studio during the day, where there is so much light, the walls look like light creamy, vanilla icecream. In the evening, the studio looks like the very first photo I posted there at the top - kind of like bisque. This is also what the color samples I painted throughout the house look like - more bisque than vanilla.





I think it's just perfect and correlates well with my passion for faux dessert creations {below}. The color theme for our cottage is like an ice cream sundae... vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup - some white whipped cream and a red cherry on top!


I still want to somehow incorporate some beautiful robin's egg blue, though, like what is seen in these candy boxes I made quite a while ago.


So what do you think about the new wall color choice for Twice Remembered? Some of you were worried that "all white" would make the place seem too stark or cold, but do you think this shade still retains enough warmth? For those of you who voted for all white, do you think it looks fresh and crisp and clean? I'm hoping that the new custom color captures the best of both white and off-white...but if it doesn't, hubs says I'm not painting again for years!