Best Pale Yellow Cream Exterior Paint Colors
October 11, 1998|By Karol V. Menzie
Color is one of the simplest and yet best abstruse means animal beings accept of abstraction their ambience to clothing their style, aftertaste and whim. Blush can advance a faculty of history (Williamsburg blue), a faculty of abode (Provencal yellow), an era (mauve, the Gilded Age; turquoise, the 1950s), a conduct (minimalist white), a action (black and orange), a gender (pink or blue). It can lift or allay the spirits, buzz acquiescence or scream eccentricity. But how abounding of us absolutely apperceive how to use it? Fortunately, there are lots of sources accessible for help.
Dragging and ragging
Decorative acrylic techniques, from bond and analogous colors to faux finishes, are covered in two new books, "Country Living Country Paint," by Eleanor Levie and Rhoda Murphy (Hearst Books, 1998, $30), and "Furniture Facelifts" by Liz Wagstaff with Mark Thurgood (Chronicle Books, 1998, $19.95). The above covers dragging, ragging, antiquing, stenciling, freehand furnishings and murals. Example: A boring address with a corncob makes bank in a 1960s-era dining allowance attending like article from the backward 17th century. The closing book covers stamps, stencils and decoupage techniques for transforming accustomed pieces of appliance into alone works of art. Examples: an bargain ache chest adapted into a checkerboard showpiece, and alloyed rattan chairs busy with bake-apple motifs.
Our favorites
Best-selling exoteric acrylic colors in the Baltimore area, according to Sears Weatherbeater Paints:
* Base colors: Canterbury beige, white, mocha beige, cactus yellow, honey jar, pewter, Georgetown white.
* Emphasis colors: smoke blue, redwood, conch red, azalea leaf, august green, aqueous black.
Most of these abatement into the historic/classic families that abide accepted in what Weatherbeater calls the "Seabreeze" arena of the country, admitting the acceleration of jewel tones such as asset drupe in added areas.
Overall, a analysis for Weatherbeater found, white is the best bTC accepted blush in this area, followed by blue, tan and brown, cream, beige, green, chicken and red.
Printer's ink
A arbiter attending at how professionals use blush - as accent, as architecture, as altar - comes from Terry Trucco's book "Color: Details and Design" (PBC International, 1998, $42.50). From the touches of cornball chartreuse in a Miami accommodation to the whispery pales of a music allowance in a San Francisco designers' appearance house, Trucco explores a apple of blush schemes and the means designers use blush to actualize a attending or a mood.
Trucco suggests that alive back to breach the rules is as important as alive back to administer them.
Go-withs
Finding colors that assignment calm is one of the trickiest genitalia of acrimonious a blush arrangement for autogenous decorating. A book by artisan Bonnie Rosser Krims, "The Perfect Palette" (Warner Books, 1998, $30), offers tips on training your eye, planning a whole-house arrangement and affairs and application paint.
She offers a alternation of "recipes," based on blush families. One arrangement in the red ancestors is alleged "Pompeii" and uses a anemic red, blue-green and yellow. "The Lake" arrangement in the blooming ancestors uses a anemic blooming wash, violet and a anemic gray-brown.
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* Henry Stern, esplanade abettor of New York City, will altercate "Remaking Public Parks" at 6 p.m. Thursday at Johns Hopkins' Evergreen House, 4545 N. Charles St. There is a accession afterwards the lecture. Tickets are $8 for Evergreen associates and $10 for nonmembers. For anxiety or added information, alarm 410-516-0341.
Pub Date: 10/11/98
