New Project for The Deco Blog team

We wanted to introduce a new project we’ll be working on over the next few months. An owner of a mid-century modern furniture consignment store in Dallas has asked us to help repaint and organize his space.


This is what it looks like today:

To do list:

• Choose interior paint colors
• Paint booth walls
• Select furniture from 3500+ sq ft of space to design booths and
• Upload photos for you to see.

So far, this is what we know.


We’ll be playing with warm and dark wood furniture, chrome, and glass. We’ll look for complementary colors like cool grays, interesting deep browns and steely grays. Modern homes often have white painted walls with floor to ceiling windows, but we’ll have to take into consideration the warehouse’s artificial light, which will read differently. We want to choose a grays that read gray and cool, not dingy. And clean whites, that won't look creamy….or apartment beige-y.


Eventually, the floors will be stained to be a dark glossy cement.


We’ll be picking up these colors for starters:

Benjamin Moore, Edgecomb Gray (http://blossominteriors.com/blog photo credit)

Benjamin Moore, Linen White (http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ photo credit)

Sherwin-Williams, Conservative Gray (http://www.traditionalhome.com/images/img_newhousenewkitchen_l2.jpg photo credit)

We also like

• Benjamin Moore, Stone Harbor
• Sherwin-Williams, Gilbraltar
• Benjamin Moore, Cliffside Gray

On a side-note, how come I can't find more photos of specific colors if everyone is crediting their photos? What's the scoop on that?