So we are closing on a house in the Triangle and the bonus room currently has an NC-State red accent wall that I need to coverup. My initial reaction is to grab the RGB numbers for the official VT maroon and paint over top of it, but my wife is hesitant.
Has anyone had any experience doing similar and end up with it looking good (or bad)? Is there a tweek to the color numbers that ends up looking better in a house (considering we have used like 10 different maroons on our jerseys).
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its a lot, I had a room that had an VT orange accent wall and the rest of the room was white and it was just about right. I wouldn't do the entire room because those colors aren't very neutral no matter what color number you use. The accent wall was really good looking too. I had draps that matched.
Now what I've wanted to do is maroom bottom, orange strip and then a light gray ontop. I also want to put VTs into the chair rail to make it look fancy but ain't no one got time for that.
this is one of the useful cases for AI imaging
take a photo of your room and ask the image generator to replace the wall color to get an idea of how it might work in your space. I just told it "maroon" to give it a test, but you should be able to specify an RGB code
Here is an example I quickly did in my office:
edit: this was via Gemini. Notice it still missed the wall behind the window and the shadow behind the transparent bucket on the shelf is wonky, but for brainstorming purposes, it can be useful. Never trust AI to anything important unless you are going to rework it quite a bit
Take your pick lol:
Googling provided :
AI - The color code for the University of Chicago maroon is RGB: 128, 0, 0 and HEX: #800000. This deep red hue is used in the official style guide for the university, in contrast to other colleges like the Virginia Tech Hokies, which uses a different shade of maroon.
and per VT site : Chicago Maroon
RGB: 134, 31, 65
HEX: 861F41
CSS variable: --vt-maroon
CMYK: 15, 100, 37, 45
PANTONE: PMS 208
and another site said:
The primary colors of the Virginia Tech Hokies can be found in the table below.
Chicago Maroon
PANTONE: PMS 208 C
Hex Color: #630031;
RGB: (99, 0, 49)
CMYK: (41, 100, 56, 48)
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Burnt Orange
PANTONE: PMS 158 C
Hex Color: #cf4420;
RGB: (207, 69, 32)
CMYK: (13, 87, 100, 3)
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AI can fuck right off with those RGB numbers. That's pure red.
I put all three of those RGBs into excel to see what they look like. Frankly, 128,0,0 is closer to my version of Chicago Maroon than the purple-ish RGB you get with the numbers from the VT website (134,31,65). The last option (99,0,49) is very similar to 128,0,0 but a bit darker. It's probably my favorite.
Before VT went all purpley with "Chicago Maroon", claiming it provided better matching across devices & print media, the RGB used to be 102, 0, 0, or #66000. So 128 is not that far off.
Notice, too, that AI said the "University of Chicago maroon", or, stated more correctly, "maroon for the University of Chicago".
The VT colors used to be so easy to remember. CM was #66000 and BO was #FF6600. Hell if I will ever remember these news color codes!
102,0,0 is closest to 99,0,49
at least the Burnt Orange looks good
I painted my entire home office maroon in my last house.
All I will say is... less is more. I thought I would love it, but it ended up visually shrinking the room. It also stayed warm in the heat of summer, which isn't great in Raleigh.
Also, you don't have to grab the paint numbers or anything like that, if you go to Lowe's or Home Depot, their computer system has all the official colors for all the major colleges and pro teams, so you just have to tell them what you want and they can quickly mix it up for you.
Haven't done anything inside, but the front and back doors are Chicago maroon. I just told my wife we needed to do a nice burgundy......she doesn't realize it's the exact VT maroon.
haha same team. Our "dark burgundy" front door is 100% Hokie Maroon. She picked up on it as soon as I had the door painted and let me stick with it anyway.
We have used whatever Home Depot in Cburg has on file. I can try to find the paint code if you really want. We have only done it as an accent wall, however. It is bold, but we love it. A sports team room should have that smack you in the face look, but maybe you want this room to be more understated. In any case, I'd be worried about the NCSU red affecting the tone of the maroon you put on top of it. It could come off as much darker than you anticipate. I'd consider putting down a coat of a light, neutral color just to take the edge off the bright red (wouldn't have to completely mask the red).
Probably going to need a couple coats of primer to really seal that red in the dark where it belongs.
Or just use some killz primer. That shit covered everything in dorm rooms when I worked maintenance in college.
we had a room i a house we bought that has two coats of kilz, 2 coats of beer with primer and I could still see hints of the colors, we called it the pink room but it was hot pink, electric blue, neon green, and bright orange for accents. So it doesn't coat everything perfectly
I bet that was a bitch to get even coverage with(tends to 'run' I'd imagine)..... /s
waiting on the beers until after you finish painting might lead to better results
Killz 2 is great but if you have serious stain/color to cover up you need to step up to Killz Original Red Can. Warning it is oil based so open a lot of windows unless you want to be high as a kite/pass out. And yes it is still a primer and can be top coated with latex or oil based. Don't let some moron at the big box store tell you not to use it because its "oil based." It absolutely is but it absolutely is a primer still. The "don't put latex over oil based paint" is leftover from the old days when most already installed paint was oil based especially high sheen. You cant coat anything on high sheen unless you prep it right first. Primer is flat.
I usually have the primer tinted to one shade darker than my paint color. Helps with bleed through and I think any missed darker spots are easier to notice than lighter missed areas.
I didn't realize there was a non-oil based kilz. Also buy paint thinner to help clean up.
I learned the 'this will get you high and make you pass out' thing 30 years ago preping a paneled room for painting with the original kilz. We were doing several rooms in a vacation house and I didnt have any window open in that room. Thankfully my stepsisters heard me hit the floor when I went down and dragged me outside.
Just another episode in the crazy Hokietopher stories of his youth.
We did a home office when we lived in Va Beach that started as a dark blue (previous owner), as if they used it as a dark room for photography or something. We used what Home Depot on Lynnhaven had on file for VT Maroon.. Definitely had to use the BEHR primer (if i recall it was grayish in color) for a couple of coats for the maroon to "look right.
I did my boys room with a top half maroon and an Orange VT logo and the bottom half a football field. Like the hash's along the sideline. It was when home depot first came out with all their team colors for paint.
Again, we did it for our kids room when they were little. We liked it was fun. But my wife wouldn't allow that color in a main room, ha.
We had a bathroom that I put maroon base on and then cut a giant sponge in VT and sponged VTs on top. Left a row at chest level orange all together and put VT license plates on that row. Bathroom got a full rehab though and I didn't have the time to redo it.
Home depot has team colors...tell them your team and they will mix per the info they have. There should be a flyer for it showing you the colors as well.
As a painter for 40 plus years, I would tint the primer a few shades lighter than the top coat, or at least a gray color. Not white.
Benjamin Moore is my top choice for paint. Spend more for paint-the labor is free.