![]() ![]() ![]() We've rounded up 12 of the best shades of haint blue to paint your porch, whether you live in the South or just wish you did. Drop Cloth with Card Room Green, Dix Blue & Light Blue. In terms of home decor, blues are fantastic. The colour of your trim and ceilings will also affect how Drop Cloth appears in your space, more beige or more gray. We're not much for haints or wasps, so we'll improve our chances with a picture-perfect shade of blue. 9 of the Best Benjamin Moore Blue Paint Colors By: Stevie Miller ApDid you know that blue is the most popular favorite color in the world It’s true People just can’t get enough of those soothing, cool vibes. This subdued gray/beige paint may lean towards one colour more than the other depending on the lighting and what other decorative elements you pair with it in your interior decorating project. Some say that the color prevents wasps from building nests. It works beautifully with other blues, and it’s light enough to use as a wall color in most situations, with a LRV of 60.3. It is not meant to disparage Farrow & Ball in any way. The color matching I did was done with the real samples from both Farrow & Ball and Benjamin Moore. What you see is Farrow and Ball’s rendition of their colors and some of them look horribly off to me. Another version of the tradition explains that the haints were afraid of water and would flee at the sight of the watery hue.īut if you're not one for believing in haints, you may still want to paint your porch a lovely light blue for a more practical reason. Rainier Gray is actually a blue colorjust one with a healthy dose of gray in it This gently blended shade is relaxing and even a little mysterious. The colors on your monitor may be off from the real-life colors. They believed that the color would act as a repellant for "haints," or spirits of the dead, who might try to enter their homes.Īccording to Atlas Obscura, in one version of the tradition, the Gullah Geechee people believed that the haints would confuse the color with the sky and pass right through the porch ceiling. My own bedroom is painted this super-pale blue because its the softest, most soothing color I could find. It is a vibrant color that imbues a space with depth and warmth. These descendants of central and west African enslaved people painted their doors, window frames, shutters, and porch ceilings blue as a means of protection. 'Benjamin Moore’s Blue Dragon is one of my favorites. Without further ado, you can now pretend to be all moody British here in the USA. While the practice is widespread across much of the South and even beyond, the tradition of painting porch ceilings light blue began with the Gullah Geechee communities of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. Technically, you could just bring the Pantone color to your paint store and have them color match it, but wheres the fun in that Instead- I converted some of the most popular F&B colors into Benjamin Moore, so my obsession is your gain. Spend a weekend house-hunting in Charleston or strolling the streets of Savannah, and you'll likely notice that many of the houses have one thing in common: a sky-blue porch ceiling. ![]()
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