agonizing over paint color
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I hate builder beige. Our whole house including the garage is the same awful color. I have very lite aqua, viola sheers under our cornice boards. Not sur if I should use a bold color or light color paint to make them "pop"
Cornice board fabric
Sheers ready to go up. Boring builder beige walls
Colors in our rugs (eating area and family room)
18 answers
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I would go with the medium taupe color in your rug or fabric which would look rich on your walls. This color is a neutral color so you can make your colors pop. Then choose it a bit lighter for other rooms/hallways. Each room should flow and have an element of the same color going from room to room. My foyer is red and family room is chocolate (which has accent colors that are found in rooms connected) and the rest of the downstairs are neutral tones in different shades that compliment each other and I carry the color and tone throughout to make it flow. Does this make sense? I always go get a few samples of each color to tape on each wall to find out how the light reflects and changes its color. It may look gray in the store but it can turn more yellow or even blue when you get it on the wall. I have added photos I just took standing in my foyer at the front door-I hope this gives you an idea to work with...
The Garden Frog with C Renee
on May 04, 2014
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Thanks Renee, but trying to get away from taupe, beige, greige. To me, Gray just makes me feel like I'm in a hospital.
Laura Davis-Miller
on May 04, 2014
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This is easy for me to say because it's not my room (or my budget) but I'd go bold. I'd add wainscoting or beadboard up to about 40" high or right underneath your light switches (painted black) and the walls white. and I'd paint your ceilings a blue in your drapes.
Rustic & Refined
on May 04, 2014
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Advising you on the computer is a bit difficult because the closeup photo of your fabric reads more blue to me but in the distant photo of the whole cornice, it reads more gray. You might be able to successfully use a shade of aqua, either lighter or darker than your sheers but it's just so hard to say. If I was there in person, I might advise you differently but sitting on this side of the computer, my suggestion would be to choose an off-white color with either very pale blue/aqua or gray undertones. Off white is not very exciting but it would be a neutral and fairly safe choice as long as you don't get an off white with pink, green or creamy yellow undertones. If you have trouble detecting undertones in paint colors, take a blank sheet of pure white computer paper to the paint store with you. Pick out some off white paint chip cards and then lay them, one at a time, on the white paper and you should be able to see undertones more clearly.
Shari
on May 04, 2014
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Bought foam board and 4 sample paints today...
Laura Davis-Miller
on May 04, 2014
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Love a light aqua
Funnygirl
on May 04, 2014
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I was going to say go two or three shades darker than the blue in your drapes, until I saw the colors in the rug. If you went with the darker brownish shade in the rug, your drapes would definitely pop. It would also complement your couch. (Grey reminds me of primer. I was so glad when they started making cars with colors again! But I fear you and I are in the minority on that point these days.)
Lisa
on May 04, 2014
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Love,love,love the rug!! The bluish looking color might be good but hard to tell. Go with what you love
Diane
on May 04, 2014
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I would pick a bit of a darker shade than your sheers. The darker blue tone will pull out the colors from the cornice board and the rug. I love the fabric on the cornice board too! I would not do a dark brown as your floors and tables are all dark. I would stick to the blue shades on the walls.
117135
on May 04, 2014
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Dede, I've tried 2 shades of blue. Rain washed by SW turned mint green, and interesting aqua makes the whole window treatment fades away. Bought 4 sample jars yesterday, with poster board...still working on it :(
Laura Davis-Miller
on May 05, 2014
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I'd do the blue from rugs and change the a creamy/ivory sheer drape...
Mitziblueyes
on May 06, 2014
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What if you went with a bold aqua just on that wall? And then a lighter shade for the rest of the room. I'm thinking you need to go darker to make the couch and cornice and your shears stand out. Think of that one wall as your accent wall. My daughter painted the small wall behind her couch a chocolate brown and it looks gorgeous (and she has a black leather couch and it still works beautifully, so I wouldn't worry so much about dark floors and one single dark wall).
Lisa
on May 06, 2014
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I would paint a deep brown color or a medium gray/putty color. I know you said no beige but these would be bolder colors. Google aqua duvet or aqua bedset and compare photos of bedding and wall colors. That might help better visualize. Also your going to need to introduce the aqua color into the room at least 3 times or it will look out of place. Vases and pillows are easy ways to accomplish this.
Teana F
on May 06, 2014
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The drapes you chose are to die for! Hope you find the right color,good luck.
Marlene Wilson
on May 06, 2014
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I ended up finding Forest khaki at walmart (go figure after looking at SW, BM, Lowes & Home Depot), had it mixed at Lowes. There are 2 shades of brown in the rugs, one being a "khaki brown" and there is a khaki shade in the cornice fabric. Up til 2 am painting, and OMG, it is perfect! You know that feeling you get when you know it feels just right? Thanks for all the suggestions...
Laura Davis-Miller
on May 06, 2014
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Khaki is great and I see you have a nice colonial blue accent wall that is perfect.....make some big pillows in that blue and add accent pillows in that tapestry !
Rhonda Lee
on May 06, 2014
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stunning fabric.. love the mix of traditional fabric and a modern rug..... please post a pic when you are done..
Wanda sinnema
on Aug 05, 2014
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I think soft grey would be wonderful.
Patsy
on Jan 24, 2015
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