This curated collection of 14 perfect neutrals to try with your honey oak might be just what you need to get started.

Neutrals are the timeless foundation of most good home color palettes.

They allow you to create a feeling in the space, give some character, compliment the other features of the rooms (flooring, trim, cabinets, furniture & art), all while still allowing you a blank canvas to bring in more bold accent colors that can be changed out over time.

A good neutral paint can be used throughout your home, especially if the flooring and trim are consistent, making it much easier to just add varying accent colors in each room.

If you are getting ready to sell your home and need to repaint, neutrals are universally appealing and will lighten and freshen up your home immensely.

There’s something simple, clean and earthy about a nice neutral paint.

They tend to be calm & peaceful colors and come in every tone from pale to deep, warm to cool.

What’s not to love, really?

Well, if you have honey oak in your home you might have paused a bit in your search for a lovely neutral, unsure of what will work in a real home where real families live with real orange-toned wood.

To help my friends living with oak (it’s kind of my thing!) I’ve put together a curated collection of 14 beautiful neutrals that each pair well with our favorite honey wood.

Straight to the point, this PDF is available for free, immediate download in my resource library (linked at the bottom) , complete with color names & codes. Save it to your phone and take it with you to the paint store for some narrowed down jumping-off points.

As always, use & enjoy… and remember to get real samples to try in your own home before deciding on the one.

Lighting is the number one factor in whether or not a paint works in each individual room and that can only be seen with real paint in your real house over a few days time.

Here’s my best, most practical paint sampling advice: narrow it down to a few colors, paint some big samples on white boards, put them in the room & move them around a lot over a few days, look at them at all hours of the day & evening, marinate your life in those colors… when you know, you know!

Happy painting!

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