“Cheerful” and “gray” don’t sound like they belong in the same sentence, do they? But look:
Thanks to painted wainscoting that covers a third of the walls, a dramatic curved window, and a coral rug, gray is anything but dreary in this D.C. dining room….
(When the client’s children grow out of their grab-anything-within-reach-with-their-grubby-little-mitts phase – ah, we remember it well! – we’ll do a floor-length, sheer linen drape on a curved rod on that massive window.)
The wall color is Benjamin Moore‘s AC-28 Smoke Embers. It’s a GRAY gray. Not taupe, not lavender, ever so slightly bluish…it could be too dark in a room with less light, but here, it’s a hit.
The wainscoting and trim are Benjamin Moore’s excellent off-white standby, OC-95 Navajo White, semi-gloss finish. (We also used Navajo White in a flat finish on the ceiling.)
You may recognize the rug, by the way. Sometimes called the Bogart (Garnet Hill) and sometimes called the Soho, it’s a wool flatweave that works beautifully in both traditional and contemporary settings.
Where would YOU use gray?
