Hi Capri, if any of the shows I mentioned sound interesting, they're all available on podcast.
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Hi Capri, if any of the shows I mentioned sound interesting, they're all available on podcast.
moma, we'd missed it when originally on and decided to watch it recently. Very weird, which I was expecting, but we could only take it for a while and then had to stop watching! I don't remember what the tipping point was!
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It's pretty bizarre. Don't know what your treadmill experience is like. It might be too.....just too....David Lynch. Watch with DH.
Hi prepster, thank you!
I wish I could share a simple paint chip number. I'm afraid the info below may to sound like gibberish, as I custom mixed it! And my room photo is making it look a bit darker than it really is. But as I know you paint, and probably enjoy this type of challenge, here goes:
Do you by chance have the Maratha Stewart Fine Paints of Europe paint chips from the 90s? The colors were formulated for Schreuder paints, but back when we chose this color for our dining room (late 90s), we asked our local paint store to color match using Benjamin Moore Regal Wall Satin. We chose the Martha Stewart chip called Porcelain Green from the Araucana collection. (Unfortunately I can't find the formula they used to recreate it in Ben Moore!)
So that was the starting point. But as we started painting, it felt too cool and dark for our north facing dining room. So I started mixing in small amounts of a slightly, creamy white shade of Benjamin Moore Regal Wall Satin into the green until it felt right. We used Ben Moore PO-49.
So the recipe ended up being:
1 gallon + 1 quart of the porcelain green
+ 7 3/4 cups of the white, PO-49
Thankfully we have a small bucket for touch-ups, but as it's older it's not a great match now. I really like the color, but I've dreaded trying to recreate it! Assuming they can still make it, I'd likely start with the green from Fine Paints, and then lighten/warm it up with one of their whites.
Photo below shows front and back of the Porcelain Green chip, reverse of the creamy white chip, and at the bottom, a chip I'd made of the resulting color.
So, I'm not sure if this was at all helpful, it's likely easier to just go find a nice shade of celadon green!
PS - Sorry everyone else if you slogged through this, and it was like watching paint dry!I love this sort of thing, but not everyone does!
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Thank you very much! It is such a perfect green. I love how you tweaked the original color
Speaking of green.... another green I adore is that amazing Laduree Green. I've always thought they should sell paint along with macarons.
Or Sherwin Williams or Benjamin Moore should license their green, blue and pink. Fine Paints of Europe is doing a terrific green that may be very similar to the Martha Green, called "Retro Metro." Does this look anything close to your green?
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I think that all the episodes are out now. I just started watching -- I like to watch two at a time too.
Ppup I meant to share this much earlier...
I think we went to the same shop. This is a new brush from my trip.
I also realized that about two years ago I asked about your iPhone case because of the very same picture. [emoji1]
I think we went to the same shop. This is a new brush from my trip.
I also realized that about two years ago I asked about your iPhone case because of the very same picture. [emoji1]
Haha! I saw this design in various items in both Rome and paris. Definitely thought of @Pocketbook Pup too!
This orange bag is messed up tho. [emoji23]We should call it a hybrid of B and K.
Yes! I first found it in a little toy store in Paris when my friend was searching for souvenirs for her kids. It's so funny because I see people do a double take on it all time. DH says she has my haircut. On some pieces she has a little beige and white dog too. I need an orange birkin/ Kelly hybrid, a beret and a red scarf. [emoji23]
OH I love this ad. The art nouveau font is TDF. Also the "life-affirming" PR promise. Awesome color, true!!Thank you very much! It is such a perfect green. I love how you tweaked the original color
Speaking of green.... another green I adore is that amazing Laduree Green. I've always thought they should sell paint along with macarons.
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Hi prepster, thank you!
I wish I could share a simple paint chip number. I'm afraid the info below may to sound like gibberish, as I custom mixed it! And my room photo is making it look a bit darker than it really is. But as I know you paint, and probably enjoy this type of challenge, here goes:
Do you by chance have the Maratha Stewart Fine Paints of Europe paint chips from the 90s? The colors were formulated for Schreuder paints, but back when we chose this color for our dining room (late 90s), we asked our local paint store to color match using Benjamin Moore Regal Wall Satin. We chose the Martha Stewart chip called Porcelain Green from the Araucana collection. (Unfortunately I can't find the formula they used to recreate it in Ben Moore!)
So that was the starting point. But as we started painting, it felt too cool and dark for our north facing dining room. So I started mixing in small amounts of a slightly, creamy white shade of Benjamin Moore Regal Wall Satin into the green until it felt right. We used Ben Moore PO-49.
So the recipe ended up being:
1 gallon + 1 quart of the porcelain green
+ 7 3/4 cups of the white, PO-49
Thankfully we have a small bucket for touch-ups, but as it's older it's not a great match now. I really like the color, but I've dreaded trying to recreate it! Assuming they can still make it, I'd likely start with the green from Fine Paints, and then lighten/warm it up with one of their whites.
Photo below shows front and back of the Porcelain Green chip, reverse of the creamy white chip, and at the bottom, a chip I'd made of the resulting color.
So, I'm not sure if this was at all helpful, it's likely easier to just go find a nice shade of celadon green!
PS - Sorry everyone else if you slogged through this, and it was like watching paint dry!
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That green must have magical powers. Last night I dreamed we bought a brand new RV that was sort of like an areo-dynamic school bus with an interior like an open plan house. It had a very dark green exterior and the interior was your shade of green. And I really liked the interior color. We named the RV "the turtle". What is surprising is we own absolutely nothing that is green. Like I said your paint has magical powers. It took over my mind and dreams. And the dream put me in a good mood. I was not in a good mood when I went to bed, but boy was I cheerful this am.
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Pantone's color of the year is something called "greenery" (think leafy house plant). That Laduree Green I've only seen in pictures but it is a nice soft green. You should get porcelain macaroons and put them on H plates to decorate the room.Thank you very much! It is such a perfect green. I love how you tweaked the original color
Speaking of green.... another green I adore is that amazing Laduree Green. I've always thought they should sell paint along with macarons.
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Thank you very much! It is such a perfect green. I love how you tweaked the original color
Speaking of green.... another green I adore is that amazing Laduree Green. I've always thought they should sell paint along with macarons.
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Hi prepster,
Oh, that's so fun, I love Retro Metro, so gorgeous! I was reading the wonderful description in the ad and saying to myself, life affirming, yes, uplifting, yes, etc...
I love the pale shades you mention for interior colors, plus a buttery yellow. They create a really nice feeling of refinement and yet coziness. Regarding Retro Metro, I think it looks to be very much in the family of our tweaked green, but ours is more pale/less saturated, and a bit warmer. I think Emmett Fiore at Fine Paints of Europe (whose fun description they used in the pic you posted) could tell you how this compares to the Martha Porcelain Green. He's worked at Fine Paints for a long time! I just spoke to him this AM to ask a few questions regarding some upcoming projects, and he's helped me a number of times in the past. He's a wealth of information, and very helpful!
I get so excited by companies like this, producing gorgeous, really high quality products. Plus they are located in one of my favorite villages in (appropriately) The Green Mountain State (Vermont)!