Southern Home Paint Color Palette

Tour a vintage Southern home after it’s refreshed and revived, and get the skinny on the whole home paint color palette that was used throughout—for a fresh, timeless feel in every room!

Hello friends! It’s a crazy day here on the Oregon Coast. The weather can’t decide if it wants to rain & storm, or be sunshiny? Sounds like my hormones some days. The perfect day however, to hunker down, enjoy the occasional sun breaks, and tell you all about the paint colors (and even the wall paper patterns) that were used in the home I shared with you last week! 

I’ve got the “insider info” for you. Are you ready? 

Good. Let’s start with the front porch.

We all love a good porch, and they do them up right in the South . The ceilings are often done in a soft, “haint blue”… and it’s a shade that has some history behind it.

A Haint Blue mini History:

What’s a haint you ask? Well . . . A haint is most widely known as a haunt, lost soul or ghost, but the colloquialism (derived from the noun haunt) is rarely used anymore unless you are talking about a paint color. It is believed by the Geechee/Gulla culture that by painting a porch ceiling blue it will protect a home from haints (evil spirits). Blue symbolizes water and spirits are unable to cross it to haunt you – thus the name ‘haint blue’.

I’ve always heard that it helps keep bees and wasps away too, and after doing a little research I found that at one time this may have been true. . . haint blue paint was originally made by mixing dye from the indigo plant [recipe to make your own indigo dye here!] and lime with milk and maybe a little Borax. This mixture is said to have kept bugs from making a home on your porch and also a meal of you.

Excerpt from The History Of Haint Blue by Danielle Hatfield 

While it is not believed that there is one exact, specific “haint blue” paint color, there are many shades and variations that will give the desired look, feel and charm.

FRONT PORCH PAINT COLORS:

• Porch Ceiling: Benjamin Moore Clear Skies 2054-70 

• Porch Floor:    Benjamin Moore Duxbury Gray HC-163

LIVING ROOM PAINT COLORS:

• Main Wall Body: Benjamin Moore Seaspray CC-250

• Above Trim & Ceilings: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132

• Baseboard, Trims & Doors: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132 (semi gloss)

DINING ROOM PAINT COLORS:

• Main Wall Body: Benjamin Moore Seaspray CC-250

• Above Trim & Ceilings: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132

• Baseboard, Trims & Doors: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132 (semi gloss)

• Wallpaper: 120th Anniversary Archive Edition by York, Pattern AV2804

GENTLEMAN’S PARLOR PAINT COLORS:

• Walls, Main Body: Nantucket Gray HC-111

• Above Trim & Ceilings: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132

• Baseboard, Trims & Doors: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132 (semi gloss)

GUEST BEDROOM PAINT COLORS:

• Above Trim & Ceilings: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132

• Wallpaper: Nantucket by York Pattern, NK2027 

• Baseboard, Trims & Doors: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132 (semi gloss)

Interesting tidbit: After researching and sourcing, the wallpaper in this bedroom is an exact match to the original! I love that thoughtful detail. 

SECRET HIDDEN LAUNDRY ROOM PAINT COLORS:

• Wall Color: Benjamin Moore Color Of The Year, Guilford Green HC-116

MAIN HALL BATH PAINT COLORS:

• Main Wall Body Color: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132

• Beadboard: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132

PRIMARY BEDROOM AND ATTACHED BATH PAINT COLORS:

• Main Wall Body Color: Benjamin Moore Raindance CC-680

• Above Trim & Ceilings: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132

• Baseboard, Trims & Doors: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132 (semi gloss)

KITCHEN PAINT COLORS:

• Wall Color: Benjamin Moore Gray Mirage 2142-50

• Cabinets: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132 (pearl or satin)

• Ceiling: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132

• Baseboard, Trims & Doors: Benjamin Moore Grand Teton White CO-132 (semi gloss)

FOUR SEASON BACK PORCH PAINT COLORS:

• Porch Ceiling: Benjamin Moore Clear Skies 2054-70 

• Porch Floor:    Benjamin Moore Duxbury Gray HC-163

Well folks, that is it! The paint colors and wallpaper sources for all the rooms I shared last week.  If you missed the articles, you can find lots more photos and information about the porches and the home by visiting…

Home Tour & Southern Romance Reveal [click here]

All Season Southern Porch Reveal [click here]

This post will wrap up a wonderful chapter here at Fox Hollow Cottage. It was my pleasure & privilege to travel to Alabama to see the preview & plans for the home. Along the way, I got to travel someplace I had never visited, I got to hear the amazingly detailed personal history of the home… and luckily, I was able to see the final reveal of the homes transformation.

And I got to share it all with you!! I’m so glad you could join me. 

I was fortunate to got to meet some very special people along the way. Of course, meeting the bucket list crosser-offer’er, the driving force behind the project, and CEO of Phantom Screens, Esther de Wolde herself, was a highlight. Her unassuming, down to earth nature, warmth, and genuine caring put you instantly at ease. And when she tells you that you made her nervous while watching her wrap buckets of roses in burlap, you know she is just like you. A human being. Now, if she’d only let me help… I wouldn’t have been watching. hahaha. But that is a whole nother’ story. And she did a fantastic job by the way! The rest of the team was equally as wonderful and after two visits, we got some pretty fun stories out of them!! I’m pretty sure they would prefer I didn’t repeat them. But we had some good laughs.

And then, there were the gals whom this trip wouldn’t have been the same without!

• Debbie of Refresh Restyle gets top billing because not only did she pick me up at the Atlanta airport, but she put me up in her gorgeous home before the official reveal. We road-tripped it over to Mobile and back, and then she drove me back to the airport for my flight home. Love you Debbie!!!! xoxoxo

• Beth (and her sweet family & new baby!) from Unskinny Boppy

• Rhoda of Southern Hospitality

• Aedriel of Aedriel Moxley 

• Tiffany of Montgomery Antiques

• and Lauren of Lauren McMullen

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