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[Beach Crazy]

Hello to my peeps and peepettes How is everyone? I have a question. Who can tell me what over the counter paint color would Haint Blue be???
Haint Blue you might say. Yes Haint Blue. I want to paint the underside of the porch Haint Blue. Gotta go to a meeting. I'll check back on this. I love y'all and miss y'all

BC

 

[elgordoboy]

Hello to my peeps and peepettes How is everyone? I have a question. Who can tell me what over the counter paint color would Haint Blue be???
Haint Blue you might say. Yes Haint Blue. I want to paint the underside of the porch Haint Blue. Gotta go to a meeting. I'll check back on this. I love y'all and miss y'all

BC

Is this a trick question like "any color that 'haint blue"?


http://www.squidoo.com/haintblue

 

[Smiling JOe]

Do you have some evil spirits in your house or are you trying to keep the bugs off your porch ceiling? If the latter, you should note that the original Haint Blue had Lime mixed into the milk-based paint, and it was the lime which helped to keep insects from attaching themselves to the ceiling. The paint sure looks pretty, though. Reminds me of a gentle sky.

Keep in mind that from what I've read, Haint Blue varied from region to region, as the materials varied, long before there was a paint store. So, you may see different interpretations of the color, which vary quite a bit from a light, gentle blue, to a green-blue color. I bet if you go to Frank's Cash 'n Carry, just north of Grayton, in the back of the center behind Hurricane Oyster Bar, the lady in the paint center can hook you up, if you are telling her you want ceiling porch blue. Now if you are getting it for your historical home in Savannah or Charleston, I'd say to try another method.

Have you tried going to Benjamin Moore's or Sherwin William's website to see if they have "Haint Blue?" That might also work. Surely, with the historical use of the color in places like Savannah and Charleston, there is something on the www to help you out.

edit: I see that neither BM nor SW have that color. Go to www.myperfectcolor.com and you can match colors from all major paint suppliers. As I mentioned, the color of Haint Blue varied quite a bit, but here is one of the two colors (the more green/blue) I had in mind as Haint Blue.
Benjamin Moore 2049-60 Forget Me Not

 

[DD]

I don't care what color you paint your porch ceiling, I'm just glad you finally posted!!!
Seriously though, hope you find just what you're looking for.

 

[NoHall]

As SJ suggested, the idea behind haint blue is to mimic the sky. Kind of the SoWal.com blue (NOT the Big Blue Monster blue.) A friend of mine has an antebellum house in town and he kept the original ceiling color, which was a gray-blue. Looks like an overcast sky, but the idea is the same--it should look like the sky.

The upside (and you will find this in many articles if you google haint blue porch ceiling) is that the color that serves to shoo away evil spirits is inviting to the living. I painted mine a few years ago, and it really does soothe the soul. (We had some powder blue bathroom paint left over, and my dad mixed a little white in with it. It turned out to be SoWal.com blue. Very nice.)

 

[Smiling JOe]

NoHall, is that blue not too dark for you? Most porches I've see have either a hint of green in the blue, or are more like a few shades lighter than North Carolina Tarheel Blue (is that an evil word?).

 

[NoHall]

NoHall, is that blue not too dark for you? Most porches I've see have either a hint of green in the blue, or are more like a few shades lighter than North Carolina Tarheel Blue (is that an evil word?).

No--not at all. After you asked, I went to look at it one more time--it's actually a shade or two lighter than the SoWal blue. My biggest porch is screened in, and the framework is white, so it tones it down a lot. The walls are a light chocolate color, so it's got the sky & turf vibe. (I'm not sure what kind of statement my door makes in all that tranquility--it's a dark red called "Raven's Rage." )

Pics below--it's a tiny porch, obviously. (The other red door in the picture actually goes to the laundry room.)

 

[Smiling JOe]

Yes, that is quite a few shades lighter than SoWal.com blue.

 

[NoHall]

Yes, that is quite a few shades lighter than SoWal.com blue.

Depends on where you look--it matches my quote boxes! I think it's a little darker in person. I took those pictures with a pretty bright lamp in the background.

 

[Beach Crazy]

Thanks for input guys!