HOME IMPROVEMENT
Paint Colors
to Brighten
Every Room
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For wall-to-wall color:
Monterey White by Benjamin Moore Paints
(HC-27); benjaminmoore.com
Along the handrail and knoll post color:
Midsummer’s Night by Benjamin Moore
Paints (2134-20); benjaminmoore.com
Transformed trim color:
Creamy White by PPG Paints (512-2);
ppgpittsburghpaints.com
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amie and Jim Graham had been living in their Wexford residence for two
decades before they realized that it’s actually their dream home. The couple
bought the brick-and-cedar Colonial in the Ramblewood neighborhood
back in 1993. When the builders contracted it in 1986, the house served as a
showpiece. “The interior is covered in wood—on the foyer’s vaulted ceiling, on
much of the walls, and there’s crown molding everywhere,” Jamie explains.
Yet the elegant detailing and natural beauty of the wood were obscured by a
high-gloss, green-blue stain. “Back in the ‘80s, I’m sure that was impressive, but it
really dated the entire look of the home,” Jamie comments. In 2012, the Grahams
had painters come in to assess the situation. “One of them said, ‘Lady, it would
be cheaper for you to move.’ So we put it to rest for a while.” Then the Grahams
called in the painters. “They went wild with the possibilities of how to change the
home’s look by switching out paint colors, and they did a fantastic job.”
“It was nothing short of a transformation,” Jim says about the project, and
jokingly adds that the green-blue stain “was seriously the ugliest trim color
known to mankind.”