So, it seems like our Condo purchase is ACTUALLY going to happen. Buying property in San Francisco is a very rough process, so every second I have been sure something is going to fall though. Tomorrow everything is being signed (fingers crossed, breath held), so it feels okay to start planning.

The condo currently has a BIG red accent wall. I like red accent walls, I have had them before. But… this is a one bedroom condo in San Francisco and that means a red wall is “A LOT”. Also, our current taste in colors runs towards the cool end of the spectrum.

We both started out thinking that we wanted cream walls with a nice gray accent wall. Turns out, cream runs warms or looks like white. And I have been a renter for SO long that I am over white.

Then we began researching gray. Gray is a tough color. Apparently it always has an undertone: purple, blue, or green. And while you might see a tinge of the undertone in the paint card, when the paint is covering an entire wall, the undertone goes from a tinge to a ton…

So, I spent forever reading reviews and looking at colors and trying to generally understand the direction we wanted to go. And finally, we have decided (hopefully, I am demanding that we buy a sample and give it a try, so everything could change).

In our living room, our main color is going to be Benjamin Moore Coventry Gray and an accent wall of Benjamin Moore Hale Navy. A navy accent wall was never something I had considered, but it seems traditional and modern at the same time, and has a great blend of masculine and feminine elements. Plus, it is so crisp. I put together a little photo collection of the two colors below.

Hale Navy Bedroom via pinterest

Hale Navy wall via pinterest

Coventry Gray living room via pinterest

Jenna Lyons house with Coventry Gray via pinterest