Grey and its various shades has become really popular when it comes to home decor color choice. It is a neutral backdrop to set off any other color, making bold tones pop and adding depth to more subtle tones. Grey is considered as the new white and it is one of the favorite shades of home designers. Depending on the shades chosen, you can create different atmosphere. For instance, light grey walls look airy and crisp, while dark tones create sultry and cozy mood. Scroll down to find some grey interior designs that you may find as an inspiration to add grey shades into your lovely home.
A recent Remodelista post "Going to the Dark Side with Mad About the House in London" featured Kate Watson-Smyth who writes her own interior design blog "Mad About the House". Watson-Smyth is so smitten with gray (or grey – she is British) that she wrote an entire book about the color – "Shades of Grey". The Remodelista piece featured Watson-Smyth's London home which is done in many shades of gray. What I love about this article is that it shows the house as it was before – every room painted white, and then the dramatic after, a house in all gray.
Below is just one bathroom, but click to the article to see how gray transformed this home. With the ground swell support for gray as the "it" interior color from top designers and top shelter magazines, it begs the question – is this a fad or a trend? Fads come and go every couple of years while trends tend to take root and last for 10 to 20 years. This is an important consideration when making a significant investment in the interiors of your home.
Soft goods like bedding, accent pieces, rugs and some furniture can be replaced every so often. But hard goods like flooring, painting, kitchens and bathrooms are long term investments – for these, we want to make sure we don't sink money into a flash-in-the-pan style. As pointed out in the Washington Post article on gray, when kitchen and bath manufacturers introduce new lines, they do extensive research into the fad vs. trend conundrum. The verdict on gray seems to be that it is here to stay, as stated by Nancy Yusko, a design manager for kitchen and bathroom fixtures at Kohler.
It can be warm or cool, light or dark, Jordan said. To see suggestions of gray paint colors and home decor accessories, click through this story's Shades of Gray photo gallery. Currently, grays are used in almost any location in the house.
Because gray is regarded as a neutral, it makes for a great colour option for throughout the house. Even though it may be easier to choose one shade of gray for throughout the house, I'd suggest adding other hues to your colour palate by implementing more than one colour throughout your home. It will make it appear more complete, by adding depth and flow from one room to another. Popular architecture today embraces open concept floorplans, and one colour throughout the space is ideal to make it feel larger and more spacious. On the other hand, utilize your home's natural architectural separation, like a bulkhead or doorway for instance, to create an opportunity to use other shades or colours. Fifty shades of gray is the leading motif in creating this stylish interior design for a one-bedroom apartment.
Wood decorative elements, naturally also with shades of gray, is another highly noticeable presence in the home. This presence can be seen not only as floor coverings in all rooms, but also as a leading lining for walls and ceilings. The lines are clean, straight, with a few colored accents. The daily tract is conditional divided into two zones by using a countertop, which is also working because ceramic hobs are mounted on it. In my opinion, I find it to be the most chic and modern neutral. Gray is the perfect backdrop for showcasing accent colors.
Kind of like a gray day – it let's you take things down a notch. Unlike white, gray is less stark and provides a more subtle contrast when introducing other colors. Fans of gray run the gamut in the interior design world – using the color in modern to traditional settings.
In My Domaine's recent article "Top Designers Share Their Favorite Gray Paint Colors", Nate Berkus, Betsy Burnham, Thomas O'Brien, Martyn Lawrence Ballard and Miles Redd share their fave grays. Choose some grey sofa that will match with the grey walls. Grey can look good in combo with white and black, but also you can choose to add some pop of color, by adding some yellow accents. For instance if you go for some grey sofa designs add some pop of yellow with some yellow pillow designs.
Also you can choose a yellow carpet or maybe a nice yellow and grey pattern for it. The yellow undertone of gray will dance between the line of gray and beige and is worth considering, for transitional style homes. While beige may have been overused and is now commonplace, a yellow-undertone gray is a compromise between the warm elements of beige and the modern, fresh feeling of gray. If you're not wanting to jump into icy blue or steely grays, colours like HC-173 Edgecomb Gray and OC-15 Baby Fawn would be a worthy concession between a cold gray and a warm beige. Gray is definitely one of the hottest interiors colors of the recent past.
Available in a multitude of hues and shades, gray has become the 'go to' color for both designers and home owners. The contemporary trend of stylish and sleek interiors with clean and well defined lines is a part of the reason. With subtle shades of semi-minimalism and neutral settings gaining popularity, gray has shot into spotlight. Beautiful, diverse and providing the perfect backdrop for accent colors, gray is elegant, sophisticated and understated. So after all that pinning, I wanted to share some of my favourite looks that include different shades of my favourite colour in this blog post. Selecting what is relevant to know about lighting, and be specific in the subject are two of our biggest goals in order to provide solutions to the readers.
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A calm gray bathroom has Sherwin-Williams paint on the walls with a black and white color scheme and dark wood floors. Gray grout anchors a beautiful wall accent of gray glass with gray and white marble. "Gray is a natural transition from the white," she says.
A yellow-undertone of gray will feel and look the most neutral, compared to blue-undertoned grays and red-undertoned grays. Grays with yellow will appear warm and bright, perfect for minimally lit areas. A slight yellow or gold pigment behind a gray is great for spaces without natural light and is a good idea to use for Northern exposure areas. Introducing warm tones of the gray will help it not feel as dreary. Gray is still considered a neutral, so it innately goes great with most colours; and it's a modern twist on the commonly used and trite beige. Gray can act as a neutral backdrop to your collection of furniture and art, or conversely, be the statement colour of the room.
A dark charcoal gray, for example, introduces drama yet still feels elegant. Benjamin Moore's HC-167 Amherst Gray & AF- 710 Secret is a great place to start, when looking for darker shades of gray. White ceramic tiles with a contrasting black grout set the tone for this modern black and white kitchen. A peninsula helps create space in the small kitchen, and bright yellow stools add a super fun pop of color.
In spite of being such a fan of grey, I am yet to use it to decorate my own home. I really should invest in a tin of grey paint, because it brings furniture into the limelight and looks great with mid-century modern furniture. My living room is packed full of G-Plan shelves, teak accessories and a Schrieber sideboard, so I'm sure that adding touch of grey will bring the whole mid-century look alive. I think I will start with the hallway (the next makeover on my list!) and use a couple of variations of the colour in this area to see what kind of effect can be achieved in a small space. Okay, I'm not talking actually about the book but I am putting together a blog post full of inspiration for your home decorating.
When it comes to decorating your kitchen with some shades of grey, start by choosing grey kitchen cabinets, white walls and flooring and some accents of red or yellow. I recently spent a serious amount of time and gray paint testing colors in a client's home. Some looked great on the swatch, in the can and in photos, but once we put it up on the wall, the colors changed quite a bit. I strongly recommend grabbing several different shades, painting some sample squares and leaving them up in the room for a few days so you can see how the color changes during various times of day and night.
We put up two different grays in three different locations to see how the lighting in the room effected the color. Fifty shades of grey | christian grey's penthouse in escala is for sale. The dining was decorated with a large oak table with black chairs in the dining area, and a lighting fixture in blackened wood and gray glass. On the wall – artworks that the owner received as a gift from the artist.
Soft and natural drapes in light gray were selected. Oftentimes, before a space is decorated or sometimes even before it is even built, expert designers are brought in to create rich, realistic visualizations of how the space could look. This is an example of just how stunning this kind of modeling work can be. Designers from the eastern Europe-based Viarde have created a sleek, modern design in this Smolniy Park apartment, without moving a single piece of furniture. Still, the results are highly realistic and representative of exactly the kind of calming, modern luxury that is popular today. From a comfortable, sunny living room to an enviable walk-in closet, Viarde has created a space that feels real and that is an accomplishment in itself.
Since a kitchen sports functional and focused lighting of various types, there is never a fear of a dark corner or general gloom upsetting the color scheme. Add to it the presence of warmer tones like red, green and yellow along with a wooden or stainless steel kitchen countertop and there is never any scope for blandness. Gray in the kitchen and dining area is indeed the in trend of the times. Billow's love of gray can be seen in her own home with its washed-gray walls in the dining and living room, and dark gray in the bedroom paired with white linens.
Add a color to white or beige, Smith notes, and eventually both will become lighter versions of the added color. Add color to gray, however, and only its intensity will change. "It becomes more complex because there is more variation," she says. Those vague hues we describe as grayish-blues, or reddish-grays are what she means. Such blending is what enables grays to play well with other colors, taking on cool or warm qualities depending on the colors mixed in. The slate grey large format tile flooring connects the disparate elements of the interior, as we see pulling back from the living room area into the dining space.
To the left, we see the entry door next to one of many art pieces on the wall. "Gray is the new neutral," says Patty Mulkiten, showroom manager of the Robert Allen showroom at the design center in Troy. The best color combo for the bedroom maybe the one with grey shades and white. It is one of the most common colors for masculine bedroom designs. Scroll down to see some modern grey bedroom designs and choose if you will add some grey tones into your bedroom.
And yes, it's the color associated to the most waited movie of the year. Tinted paint is always comprised of, however small the amount may be, a colorant to achieve the colour hue you're looking for. Fundamentally, grays can be made up of an undertone of blue, red and yellow, but can also be a combination of these. Since the release of the movie "50 Shades of Grey", I thought I would share my favorite 50 Shades of Gray paint colors broken down by light, medium, dark, warm and cool colors. One of the biggest highlights from the previous fifty shades of greymovie was surely it´s interior design features. On this post, we will show you how to live like Christian Grey in the penthouse that inspired this iconic ventures!
The new movie is just about to be screened and we are so excited to present you with the best novelties that will definitely motivate yourself to change your home decor. Find some wonderful ideas apply to your personal space. The forthcoming film Fifty Shades of Grey is likely to make interior design fans think of the colour grey rather than Christian Grey — the S & M-loving billionaire of E L James's trilogy. A perfect neutral colour – that is neither plain and dull like magnolia, nor harsh and stark like white, or oppressively dark like black – grey is one of my 'most pinned' colours on my Pinterest boards. Yes, I am a fan of grey and I can't imagine that changing any time soon. Boca do Lobo Design Studio is on the new and remodel design set, fully embracing, once again, the Fifty Shades of Grey character and style.
The given opportunity being a part of this experience gave Boca do Lobo a chance of promoting a new roll of exclusive and exquisite pieces that were chosen to renew Christian Grey's apartment. The selected color palette is fifty shades of gray. Black highlights in window profiles and lighting stand out on a white background. A shot of turquoise and nude colors contrasts with the monochromatic color palette.
Lavish purple combined with gray and white elegantly in the living roomThe naturally neutral character of the color once again allows you to experiment with both décor and accessories endlessly. Combining different shades of gray is also a smart idea as it offers subtle variation without moving away from the central theme dramatically. Gray is an automatic fit for the contemporary living room. While white is often used to provide a pristine background, gray lends complexity and class.
Since living rooms are far less private in nature than both bedrooms and bathrooms, home owners gladly tend to gravitate towards use of muted tones and earthen shades. One can employ the colder shades of gray in rooms with ample natural ventilation and great lighting. Warmer tones of gray are ideal for living rooms that are compact and need a sense of spaciousness and airy appeal. She writes about interior design ideas and advice to create a beautiful home for The Luxurist. Interior designers don't need a book or movie to tell them that gray is exciting. Noticing how the hue fit into contemporary and traditional spaces and looked great in any room of the house, designers nudged aside tired beige years ago and replaced it with a hip new neutral, gray.
Infinitely adaptable, gray can go from light to dark and cool to warm by adding undertones of green, blue, violet and brown into the mix. And those many shades are popping up all around the house, where gray has emerged as the chic neutral. The primary bedroom features black brick walls in contrast to the white marble flooring, with a deep blue bed set for color and contrast. Inspired by the highly anticipated theatrical launch of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie we have compiled 50 of the hottest hued design and décor pieces sure to make your mouth water and fantasies come to life. From studded teddy bears to Madonna's infamous Sex book there's a little something to satisfy everyone's appetite. Alternatively an all gray palate can have a similar effect to a pure white palate.
A palate of exclusively grays can be just as interesting as greys paired with colour. When working with a monochromatic colour scheme, shades of gray for example, it's important to layer materials, such as using different textures to provide depth. For a long time, white was considered the only modern colour, both outside and inside. Designers loved to do everything in top-to-bottom white in order to showcase the architecture and overall design. For world-famous architect Richard Meier, the colour white even had a harmonising effect. He once said that he found white particularly appealing because it reflects the light especially well when the seasons turn.
It is pretty clear that gray is a great color for any home no matter what style decor you prefer. I use gray in many of the homes I design and like Watson-Smyth, some of my homes feature a shade of gray in every room. Following are a few images of VGI designed homes where gray is used throughout. The dark marble tiles and white walls look very masculine. Even some of the furniture like the dark wood center table provides a very manly vibe.
