Maine Summer Home Color Collection
Four Seasons- Summer -Autumn -Winter - Spring
The Seashore Collection, The Forest Collection, The Lake Collection
Maine Summer Home and Lifestyle has a collection of 12 Color
Palettes. The colors
are “Drawn from Nature and Rooted in History”.
Each Palette has 8 Interior
Colors, and 4 Exterior Color choices. The beauty of this system
allows the user to
use all or some of every color. The colors work with each
other in any combination.
This system has been created for Paint and can also be used
in Fabric, and Furniture
selection. We are basing our Maine Summer Home Color Collection
on the
“Historic Series of Colors” from The Sherwin Williams
Paint Company.
The colors of Maine are the colors of nature.
The light in Maine has been a draw for
artists from all over the world for over a
century. The colors in Maine are richer, and
turned up. The oceans, bays and estuaries,
as well as the islands and reaches that dot
the 4,000 miles of coastline seem to
intensify the colors making them saturated,
rich and uniquely Maine.
The sky is an ever-changing backdrop,
ranging from a slate gray on a foggy day to
a blue that has shades of purple or orange
depending upon the weather and the time of
day.
The shoreline is littered with seaglass, of
rich and varied tones of blue and green,
nestled in the rocks and wet sand, or
scattered on top of deep dark green kelp
that has washed up from a wild and sudden
summer storm.
Maine has some of the highest and lowest
tides in the world. At low tide the palette of
the shore is a mix of light and dark, wet and
dry, purple/black mussel shells lying next to
bleached out sand dollars and red starfish.
At high tide it reflects the color of the sky.
We also combed the reaches looking at the
lobster "shacks on the shore" the shade of
red is timeworn with an authentic yet fresh
feel, the blues are the sky in a constant
state of change.
The greens, are drawn from coastal dune
grass backlit by the sun, the ochre is the
color of the dune grass in the autumn, and
we have thrown in a tinge of August foliage.
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