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Benjamin Moore's Color of the Year Has All of the Cozy, Chill Vibes
It's comforting. It's relaxing. It's...
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Felicia O.
October 25, 2018
As Adam Duritz sang with Counting Crows in Mr. Jones, gray is my favorite color!
Tiffany R.
October 16, 2018
Just did a tonal grey and grey/aqua bedroom and bathroom. I agree, too much cacophony and I needed a serene respite from it all.
Dallas G.
October 11, 2018
Boring and depressing. There are so many other beautiful colors to list your spirit. Just saying.
Helen K.
October 11, 2018
I think it’s a lovely peaceful color that could be used in any room
Margaret L.
October 11, 2018
I agree. It also looks as though you could pull a lot of colors out of it. Pair it with lilac in a bath, celadon in a dining room, moss in a living room, navy in the kitchen, gold, silver, wrought iron, and copper all look great with it. (Unlike last year's pick, the hot-pepper Caliente, which did not "work and play well with others," as my elementary school report card said.) I'm sold!
Paul
October 11, 2018
That's a gray, isn't it? Dove gray at some point? Color of the year huh, isn't gray a tone---the absence of light combined with its opposite, black + white = Gray. Oh it's so sophisticated. Again. I'll date myself. My grandmother's house was a moderate gray outside, and a pale gray like this inside. In 1960, when much of the rest of the landscape was in heavy (as opposed to tropical) pinks, yellows and greens, and lighter seafoam greens. Then my parents painted our Oregon farm house a light gray in 1970. I painted my first apartment's kitchen, in Hollywood, a dove gray and installed a black and white tiled floor, in 1980. Within five years suddenly Gray was the new landlady tan. It came back in the nineties. It came back much darker in the aughts. And now we're breathlessly told it's the color of the year. Forgive me if I can't muster the appropriate enthusiasm.
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