Paint color advice

Maggie
by Maggie

Hi!


Need advice. Need to repaint 2 areas, living room/dining room and kitchen/family room. The LR/DR is currently painted in Valspar Seagull Beach (kinda taupe mauve) and the K/FR is painted Mountain Sage. Both rooms need a new look. Below are the rooms today. I am seriously concerning repainting all of the rooms the color on the final picture (or a similar shade). Thoughts? I appreciate all the advice!


Maggie

Living Room

Entry/Dining Room

Kitchen

Family Room

Shiitake by Behr

  10 answers
  • Hug14996598 Hug14996598 on Jul 08, 2018

    Dont see the pictures sorry

  • Shore grandmom Shore grandmom on Jul 08, 2018

    Honestly, I'm not a fan of the grey. Your carpet looks like a grey in your living room/dining room. Also I don't like it with your countertop, backsplash or fireplace surround. But, it's your house, not mine. Paint what makes you happy. (And honestly, I think grey is a drab depressing color.)

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    • Shore grandmom Shore grandmom on Jul 08, 2018

      Your welcome. And since you have plenty of time, go to the paint store and get a bunch of color cards (a few in the same color) and tape them on the walls. Look at them different times of day and in different kinds of weather. Colors look different when the lighting changes. Eliminate them until you have the one (or ones). Good luck.

  • Theresa Stewart Theresa Stewart on Jul 09, 2018

    My go to color is always any shade of blue. It can be a calming color or a bright happy color depending on the shade. Avoid it on kitchen walls as it is not conducive to a good appetite, unless you are on a 24/7 diet LoL. Maybe try it on a feature wall, keeping your grey on other walls. Whatever color you choose, use it also as accents in the room, pillows, vases or throws, etc. Hope you find your color :-)

  • Ann22290833 Ann22290833 on Jul 09, 2018

    I personally like pale yellow for LR/DR. Not too green, not too orange. It brings a ”sunshine “look into the rooms and makes them look larger. The yellow tablecloth on the DR table brings pizazz into a dark room. And I would go with white drapes....

  • Mogie Mogie on Jul 09, 2018

    Agree with Shoregrandmom get paint chips and put them on the walls to see what goes best with your home and decor. I do that with nearly everything. Just start eliminating the different colors one at a time and whittle it down to the one that works best for you.

  • Deborah Deborah on Jul 09, 2018

    Agree that yellow would brighten, but if you lean towards cooler colors I would consider an aqua/light turquoise color. It would work well with the colors present in furniture, carpet, cabinets, counter, backsplash and fireplace surround. The sandy color of the backsplash and fireplace surround would give it a beachy bright feel. You could bring that sandy color as an accent color in the other rooms as well, and white would work as well. White windows treatments would look crisp against the color.

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    • Maggie Maggie on Jul 09, 2018

      That is on my next list of projects. I like a traditional mantel, adding the surround is an awesome idea!

  • Deborah Deborah on Jul 09, 2018

    Coral accents would be a bright pop and further add to the beachy feel. The plantation shutters already in the family would be great with this theme.

  • Cathy Cathy on Jul 09, 2018

    I have alot of sage green in my house, and I like the earth tone colors. I have always painted one accent wall in most of my rooms, and it gives it some character. I use a light beige with my sage green. Also you can bring out the color of your accent wall with decorations in that room. Good luck!!! :)

  • I like that Shiitake color by Behr, it reminds me a bit of the color we have from Behr called Fashion Gray. Since it is a darker shade, I would recommend white ceilings and trim so it doesn't look too dark. Good luck! Painting makes such a bit difference :)

  • Dwp7470b Dwp7470b on Aug 03, 2018

    Okay, maggie, as a Homeowner and an Electrician, with a backround also in Phychiatric Nursing plus: relatives in the decor industry, I can tell you about how room color selections can alter the entire aspect of how you Live and emotionally feel, and moreso how you percieve and select paint:


    1. Entry/Foyer: this needs to be bright and cheerful to welcome the family home. Is it?

    2. Dining Room: This should be Neutral, to keep family and nonfamilial arguments away from the Dinner Table.

    Is it?

    3. Kitchen: A Spicy Kitchen should always match a Spice your family all enjoy, and host a herb garden that features that Favorite Spice. Does it?

    4. Living room: because you have a large home, this is a room more likely to host nonfamilial guests, often living plants and florals tidy up this breathing space in here. Thus this needs to be a living color that matches the plants and florals. Is it?

    5. Family Room: often confused with or merged with a Living Room in Small Homes, Homeowners with a Large Home should maintain this as the best kept secret the family has, as a Private Room where Family Exclusively Resorts when they need to feel more welcome than nonfamilial guests. Be they Abiding there or just Visiting this is a Room where Momentos of the Family Keep, and Photo Albums Avail. Guests who are Not Close as Family or Not even Welcome atall never feel as welcome in this room as family do, and that's okay!

    Does this room do that?


    Yeah, No to All 5 seems like a bad score, but You should have seen my home and colors, before I began on all of the renovations:

    A. The favorite spice in the kitchen was Valium Blue.

    B. The living room was Nicotine Beige.

    C. The Master Bedroom was Mauve.

    D. The walk in closet and laundry room was the entire basement, and a dismal gray at that.

    And:

    E. The only reason I know your kitchen is reproducing a 50s green look is because? I got 1954 diner mint green in my office and foyer, and Master Closet, plus: 1962 Hemp Green in the 3rd bedroom, and 1973 Sea Green too in the 2nd Bedroom and unfortunately, yeah the upstairs is all gonna stay that way until I am finished the Kitchen, the Mancave, the Office and Patio.


    You would be astonished with how much a color and decor says about yourself and your family.

    'You need to change more than a paint color, but feel powerless to do it' is what these colors are saying.

    'You need to empower yourself over those expressions on the sublime and Bring it to Life: Cheerful, Orderly and Welcoming' is what those empty walls are crying out.

    That said, you should realize my take on this includes less of my Electrical Background than of my Psychiatric Nursing Background.

    The critiques below really designs to serve as: exactly how you persuade your family to get involved, help paint, together photo albums, get a family portrait, help select colors, and contribute to a home which one day will be a family heirloom:


    A. Shiitake as a Color of the Walking Dead, rather than a Living Color, merits a Mummy in a case, in the Corner, as an All Seasons Decor suitable for an Abbot and Costello film festival...😐

    Facing Death, before it arrives, almost obsessively, rather than living life to the fullest is represented.

    B. Not finding that Foyer too welcoming or Bright is a fine way to not feel welcome or cheery in your own home...😉

    C. The kitchen looks like a 1960s reproduction of a 1950s design, and a very poor one at that, Featuring: Hemp or Maryjane Green as a means to represent your favorite Spice, and Favorite Song: Puff the Magic Dragon...😎

    D. The Dining Room is almost perfectly neutral, maybe too neutral: on the rainy day side, expresses a deep sleep rather than the somber grace, brilliance of joy and a sense of acheivement, you should have and desere as a homeowner.

    No, not even a 48 inch Brass Sunburst Clock can take those clouds away...

    E. The Family Room is an extension of that sadness of the Dining Room, and represents Stems without Flowers.

    The Paint Color is Fine with flowers, but I see no vases. And that needs some more colorful background decors, live florals, and much more of your family represented in those Sears portraits over the Fireplace.


    You need not tell me where I am correct or incorrect in my analysis.

    Your paint colors depress me enough.

    Enjoy your do-over and life.

    And, just get Cheerful Maggie.

    The end of that paint torture scheme is nearer than you think!