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Built-in bookshelves and Benjamin Moore’s AC-34 Cape Hatteras Sand

Annie Elliott |

You say, "hallway," I say, "library."

This area a master suite was woefully underused. It's too wide to be considered a true hallway, but it's too narrow to be treated like a room.

Since this client is a GENIUS with photographs and has roughly a gazillion, we thought it might be handy to have some shelves where she could store completed albums as well as unframed pictures in boxes. Open shelves and closed storage, in other words....

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Benjamin Moore’s AC-31 Hot Spring Stones, I love you

Annie Elliott |

It looks beige in the color wheel. I have used this color as beige before. It's pretty.

But I never thought of Benjamin Moore's AC-31 Hot Spring Stones as gray.

Nonetheless, eternal optimist that I am, I was hoping against hope that somehow, in my south-facing-but-still-doesn't-get-a-ton-of-light-thanks-to-the-porch-roof dining room that it would read as a warm gray, not beige....

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Gray is tricky

Annie Elliott |

If ever there were a case to be made for putting giant swatches of actual paint on the walls before making a color decision, this is it.

With many, MANY thanks to all of the Gentle Readers who gave me their thoughts and suggestions, we're working with these finalists for my dining room....

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On to the dining room! Gray or green?

Annie Elliott |

Now that I have a living room I LOVE - or almost love: Mitchell Gold's Mona Sofette is on its way, and someday I'll eradicate the orange on those darn chairs -

I have to repaint the dining room.

I know, I know. WHERE DOES IT ALL END?? Well, I've assured my long-suffering husband that it ends after the DR is painted. But I might have been lying.

Anyway, you can see the problem, looking from one room into the other....

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You asked…about a paint color for a boy’s nursery (that will age well, to boot)

Annie Elliott |

Dear Bossy Color, aka Annie :) -

I am expecting baby #2 in five weeks - a boy! - and am in the process of setting up his nursery. But I am completely stumped about what color to paint the room.

I did remember your advice to start with the rug, and found one that I love!

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Bossy color’s living room, part we’ve lost count: Benjamin Moore’s 343 Sunrays and a new art wall

Annie Elliott |

Gentle Readers, how bossy color has missed you! What with the blog migration (nearly finished), client projects (exciting), a new assistant (fabulous!), and, as you know, personal decorating trials and travails (often frustrating), life has been unusually hectic.

Let's catch you up on bossy color's living room. Here is the most recent "Before:"

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