Pottery Barn Paint

No secret I'm pretty crazy about Pottery Barn. For all my musings about contemporary design, I can't help flipping through this catalogue and thinking "Ah, this is my living room." Still, I can't afford anything, so, there is no pottery barn in my apartment. Maybe one day. My boyfriend got the velvet curtains and hardware for his room and it's so serene - Pictured below.



To me, what really brings this room together is the paint. We used the (new since 2006) Pottery Barn paint line - Greenbrier Beige for the walls and Copley Gray for the trim. This was the first room I've done where I've used a darker shade for the trim (or, anything shy of white). The results were really wonderful. My local Ace Hardware worker Mark tells me that 95% of the paint he mixes is either white, or some very very light pastel. To me, why are you wasting your time and money (and effort) painting a room "almost" white. If you're painting, paint a color.
My living room is also painted in a Pottery Barn color - Wethersfield Moss, (I painted this before Pottery Barn had colors - they just so happen to include the green I used in their first paint collection...now, that's thinking alike.) Pictured below.

Since their first collection, they've come out with new colors every season. I'm not sure if I'm a fan of seasonal colors, since I'm not painting every six months, and I don't have seasonal houses - beach house, etc.

Overall, I don't think you can go wrong with the Pottery Barn Paint line, made by Benjamin Moore and sold at Ace Hardware.