Working with oak trim

If you are surrounded by honey oak in your home, you are in the right place for design help! Are you living in a home that is filled with outdated oak and it’s just not feeling like you ? Most of my clients that approach me with this problem are feeling a little stuck: they are awesome p

Gray Wisp by Benjamin Moore is a soft, muted gray with a subtle blue-green undertone. Perfect with white or natural wood trim!

Wood trim and floors can be beautiful, but picking paint colors that work with wood can be tricky. These common mistakes and solutions will help you pick the right color for your space.

Revere Pewter with oak floors and trim. Birdcage light from Menard's

Well, last week, before I left for High Point (the international furniture show), I got started on painting the kitchen. If you missed week one of the ORC, click here. Since I have to leave the cabinets as is (dated oak, you know the look, you know the husband who loves wood), I had to find a paint color that would give me the drama I was looking for, and look really great with the orangey wood and the blue-gray formica countertops that are staying. So, bring on Benjamin Moore Galveston…

Benjamin Moore Feather Down and Benjamin Moore Manchester Tan

The ColorSnap® paint color matching app uses your Android or iPhone smartphone to match Sherwin-Williams' paint colors to pictures of your favorite things.

Learn how to pick the perfect paint colors to go with your honey oak trim. Oak trim has an orange undertone, so the wall color must look good with orange.

Wall color is Titanium Benjamin Moore

Benjamin Moore's Titanium is a lovely gray with green undertones that can easily be used in a kitchen. It feels fresh and light when used in a sunny room while still offering enough contrast with Benjamin Moore's White Dove, the perfect trim color. Typically I am not a person who uses gray in my projects, but when a client requests it, I start here!—Meg Braff

My vision for the room was for it to be a calm, serene retreat- and since it was on the second floor, it would have a perch feel- almost like a tree house. I chose a color palette that was very soothing to us: grays, champagnes, browns, creams, mushroom and a hint of turquoise. The room is rather large at 14' x 30' and was a combination of two rooms. When we took down the original fireplace in the dining room (because of damage) we were then able to take down the chimney between the then…