Candice Olson
Beautiful. Natural. Modern. I have always been one of Candice Olson’s biggest design fans!
I love her style and use of color. When Candace came out with her list of her five “Go To” Benjamin Moore colors, I could not wait to check them out. As soon as I found them, I pinned them to my pinterest color board. And there they sat! Then I heard someone comment on the colors yesterday and I realized I have not even taken a good look at them yet! Have you?
You can tell by her designs that she loves working with natural materials in her designs such as wood, stone, linen and wool.
A lot of the colors that she uses come from items that you see in nature. Her color list was chosen around colors such as stormy skies and misty, watery greens. All of these color choices are from Benjamin Moore.
Nimbus Gray, a cool gray-blue which reminds Candace of stormy skies that can be used as dramatic color or serene:
Gray Mirage- 2142-50, a serene misty gray-green that Candace loves. Works well with many different colors. This color looks beautiful with your wood floors and trim:
Pale oak OC-20 is a beautiful natural beige color, that Candace likes to use with natural stone such as limestone and travertine. Pale oak is a very light neutral with a slight blush (pink/red) undertone:
Niveous OC-36 is a gorgeous cream hue. It is a warm neutral with yellow undertones that works well with natural elements:
And last but not least- Cloud White OC-130.
Ms. Olson did comment on how she loved to work with Niveous for the walls with Cloud White on the ceiling and trim.
I love this:
I tried to find photos of her rooms that the color name was listed to share but I could not find any.
Love this!:
Love them all!:
Aren’t all these rooms so gorgeous? I think I will take a closer look at her neutrals and maybe consider using them on my next project. What do you think of her go-to colors? Do you use any of them regularly (beside cloud white)?
All photos from www.candiceolson.com
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Kelly Bernier Designs
Good to know Linda! Thanks.
Great post Kelly. I forgot how much I liked Pale Oak until I revisited it on your blog. I have used it twice and loved it both times.
Love it!
I knew you would like these neutral colors Connie!
I am laughing Alexandra! I can picture you because I love that feeeling of finding those perfect colors and you feel like saying, “haha I was right!!”
Good for you. Score for our team! Thanks for sharing!
My family hurts my feeling too sometimes when I try to show them something important to me and either they roll their eyes or they just laugh and run away! But to find out Candice Olson has the same taste as you! I’m impressed!
Candace sure loves her greens and blues doesn’t she?!
luv candace from day one! even the reruns! why the love of gray-green? why are their no neutral grays?
Reading this has made me so happy. I recently started doing some light changes around the home and wall colors has been one of them. No one in my family saw my color choices as a nice change, my feelings were a bit hurt by their negative opinions though i loved my color options and NOW reading this post I AM MORE SURE AND IN LOVE with my choices because Candice’s favorites are now on my walls…yaaaaay…and the husband, when I showed him thispost turned to me and said, ” Hey, you were right about those colors!”…how about that and I explained to him: If you see them together in nature when you take them home it has an added feeling or emotion than just decor and change…it just feels NATURAL…Thank you so much…if you saw me you’d laugh at my happy dance
I only use blue for clients since I’m not fond of most blues for myself. However, I was considering Niveous for our former home since it went well with the woodwork.
Yes! I am a neutral lover myself so these rooms speak to me too!
I love Gray Mirage. I’ve never used, or seen used, Niveous. But I’m definitely curious about it! Nimbus Gray is really, really blue and not one of my favorite blues.