I hope you are in a helpful mood today, because I have a favor to ask! It has to do with the LP SmartSide new colors I’ve been working on:
Last year, LP SmartSide asked me to put together my very best color schemes for exteriors – 20 color schemes and 35 total colors.
LP SmartSide 2016 LookBook, featuring The Decorologist
interior of LP SmartSide LookBook
And it’s not just about pretty colors – it’s what works best together, with specific instruction as to roof, stone, and brick that coordinate easily with the updated color schemes. Here’s a couple of examples:
You can see more of the color palettes on the Upside to SmartSide blog.
As part of our ongoing partnership to make homes more beautiful, LP SmartSide asked me to create 25 MORE exterior color palettes, for a total of 45 color combinations and 75 specific colors to make up The Decorologist exterior color collection.
And you know what that means, right?
I NEED YOUR HELP NAMING MY LP SMARTSIDE NEW COLORS!
That’s right – I need your help choosing the names for my new colors! Last time around, I got so much input and great ideas from my blog readers and Facebook followers,so I’m going to call on you once again to help me nail these color names. Here are some of the neutrals we named already:
Hopefully, that will give you an idea to the kinds of names that I chose. I’ve got 28 new ones to name, so I’m going to start with colors in this combo:
Leave your name ideas for these two colors in the comments below! Please follow me on Facebook so you can help me name more – I’ll be posting a few every day over the next week or so until we come up with the perfect ones. Thank you so much in advance – I love the perspective you bring and really appreciate your input!
Praying Mantis
How about “Grey Garden” for the gray? It has green tones. That’s the name of a Drew Barrymore movie, if it sounds familiar.
Some sort of avocado name for the green one?
Prairie Air
Marshland
Ironwood and Katsura green
Kelly, Ironwood is the name where my kids went to school for the last four years – I love that!!!!
Basalt for the gray. Verbena for the green.
Love the colors! Here’s my two cents.
Palmetto Leaf
Smoke Stack
I’m liking Smoke Stack!!!
Colour 1 – Nantucket
Colour 2 (light green) – Avonlea
Avonlea, and maybe another named Green Gables – I sense a theme!!!! 😉
Fun!!!! I would use “Creekstone” for the gray and “Hedera” or Ivy for the green color! Thank you for allowing me to participate!!!! It’s always a joy to follow your blog Kristie!!!!!
Good ones!!! Thanks for playing, Sylvia 😉
Sword (gray)
Sprig (green)
Or Armor
(I had just read Ephesians 6 when I saw this haha)
Sprig was a reference in my mind to the fig tree blossoming. ..Israel
I’m digging Armor, love the Biblical references!
Creamy white =Ice Milk
Green = Summer Avacado
Gray = Greystone (grey is preferred British spelling), or Classic Gray
Good luck with this! What a fun project. 🙂
Amy, love these! I actually chose Greystoke for one of the color names after one of my fav movies, The Legend of Greystoke!
Pistachio Panache
Fifty Shades of Gray
Praying Mantis and Liquid Silver.
Hi there! So excited about this!
For the gray color – thunderstruck, graphite, steel drum, graybeard, hornbeam (European Tree), pensive
For the green color – rabbit brush, desert brush, spring parsley, noble hops, dried hops, young hops. (the color is right on with hops!)
Ooh, these are good – many of these need to go on my list!! Thanks so much, Nicole!
Asparagus Soup
Revere Pewter
Wool
Cinco de Mayo
Spring Moss / Mountain Granite
Welsh Slate – grey; lichen – green
For the gray, perhaps Colonial Gray or Storm Cloud, for the green perhaps Spring Moss or Celery Stick or Split Pea.
How about liquid platinum and prickly pear
“Tempest” for the dark blue
“Aspen Grove” for the chartreuse
Fern green, Baby Fern, Fresh Fern, Fernleaf
Storm Cloud and Wasabi
I am liking IRONWOOD!
And for the green: BROOKGREEN DRIVE (or just BROOKGREEN). It reminds me of the color of a family member’s kitchen that was off Brookgreeen Dr.
Good luck!!
I like how you think, Ana!!!
How about Castle Rock and
Cilantro
Ashford and forest grass….
Knight in Shining Armour and Spring Green???!!
Connie, I love Knight in Shining Armor!!! I bought Mr. Man a life-size knight from the flea market when we were dating, and it still stands in our living room. Perfect!
Going for the superheroes — Storm and Green Arrow
My thought:
Alpha or Alpha Gray (Alpha as in wolf)
Guac or Viva la Guac
Steel Mill and Perfect Pear. Love all the color schemes you come up with!
Skyfall for the deep gray and Sage for the green
How about River Rock and Soft Moss?
I have another idea for the green:
Scenic or Scenic Route
I still like Alpha Gray, but I think Harbor Gray would work as well
How about guacomole and storm cloud.
Bluestone hearth
Spring promise
What about Picasso Green to go with your Rembrandt Blue ?
Dark Sky and Soft Palm
The green should be named : Tennesseean
The darker color should be: Nash
this is so exciting; it’s my palette! loving dark sky/ basalt and lichen/verbena. perhaps thunderous or celeriac?
Stormfront and Spring Buds
These are awesome and YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!!! Keep the ideas coming – even if I don’t use them for these colors, I have lots more your names may work for!
Dark Gray: Thunderstorm/Thunderstruck
Soft Green: Olive Branch or Persephone (Greek Goddess of Spring)
Thanks, Molly – very nice!
Cumulonimbus and Inchworm
!!! I love Inchworm! The other one might be a little difficult to spell 😉
I was trying to be all clever, thinking of names, but oh my you already have soooo many great ideas here!!
I’ll throw a couple into the mix anyway: leaden & silky moss.
Nice!!! Thank you, girl!!!
Whetstone for the gray (you know, the stone for sharpening knives)
Southern Moss for green
Moody or Northern Coal for the Grey and love I Sprig that others have suggested for the green.
How fun!
Steel grey
Jaded Slate
Persian Pistachio
Good ones, Jess! I really like “Jaded,” even just by itself . . .
“Clean Slate” for the blue-gray (reminds me of a light colored slate stone)
“Garden Sage” for the green
Lovin’ “Clean Slate” – thanks so much!!!!
Mood Puddle – gray
Icy Stare – White
Spring Tonic – Green
Great ideas, Marilyn! Thank you!!!
Galvanized, Rainwater or Down spout – gray
Watering Can – green
That’s it, now I can go to sleep!
Blue sage and Lemon grass.
Blue sage and Lemon grass
New Leaf and Deep Lake Shadows
Here are some great name choices: PUKE, Phlegm, Jaundice, Vomit, Feces, Snot, Pus!
Wonderful names, Sean! I suppose you are about 14 years old, right?
Rainy Day, Grey Matter, LondonBridge for the Grey.
Dewdrop, Sprout, Granny Smith for the Green.
How about Palo Verde for the green, Thunder Cloud for the blue grey and maybe First Light for the lighter grey.
Green – pea soup or Nee Growth
Grey – Charcoal Ash
Should have been New Growth for the green. So sorry!
Appaloosa Grey
Nature’s First Green for the green
Love your blogs!!!!
Fun names!
Here are two more — Tahitian Pearl and Citrus Green Tea Latte
Teardrop Pearl and Hushed Onyx.
Green succulent shadow and gray. Mad slate
Kiwi passion
Periwinkle gray
green – Willow
gray – Anchor
An absolute must is to add the name/color of the shingles that you’re pairing pant colors with. Computer / mobile displays do not provide consistent color – knowing what material one is dealing with is the only way to make an accurate assessment.