Monday, April 14, 2008

Color Me Impressed

Nashville now has its very own line of Sherwin Williams paint colors. From The Tennessean:

Sherwin-Williams, which brought us the historic colors of Charleston with the Carolina Low Country Collection, has developed a Nashville palette, and some of the colors are inspired by the city's favorite foods and attractions.

The interior and exterior of The Parthenon inspired three colors: a burnt-red Freize, a reddish-orange Evening Temple and a gorgeous blue known as Coffered Ceiling. Cathedral Masonry, a soft dusty gold, pays homage to the bricks of the Cathedral of the Incarnation on West End Avenue. And Woof brown was conceived over café-au-lait at the Hillsboro Village coffeehouse Fido.

Other Nashville inspired colors include Flapjacks (after the Pancake Pantry) and Vandy (gold, of course). Street names and parts of town also got their own colors.

So, other than Big Orange, what colors would you recommend for a possible Knoxville line?

And what colors would Cumberland Ave, Broadway, Chapman Highway or Kingston Pike be? How about Island Home, Sequoyah Hills, Holston Hills or all of Farragut?

Let your imagination run wild in the comments, people.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cumberland? Oh the golden brown color of fried chicken strips, because that's what it is now - The Chicken Strip!

oprahsayso said...

Here are a few ideas for fabulous Knoxville paint colors

Disco Gold-World's fair disco ball
'mater red-The Tomato Head
Spankin' silver-Belleza Salon

If you think any of these would be suitable, give me a shout! I am full of paint choices for KTown