Hello everyone! I have not posted on this site in a year or so!! In the past I have received such wonderful advice from this forum so here I am once again!
In general, the "color theme" of our house is creamy yellows, sage greens, touches of cranberry. Since we have a very open layout in the house, I try to take painstaking efforts to create that "color flow" from room to room (which as you all know can be very challenging.)
So onto the problem at hand..My current decorating dilemma involves my master bedroom..
About a year ago I bought this pretty red french country bedding set..there are pretty florals and leaves with greens, golds, pinks, and browns all over the red background. The floral pattern reverses to a green and gold stripe and this striped pattern is also on the curtain valances.
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Our bedroom is large L-shaped and has one area that is supposed to be a "sitting area" in which we have our dressers and then the other area for the bed. As you walk up the stairs in our house, the first thing you see is this room.
The entrance to the room is wide (french doors) so it is VERY OPEN to the hallway, which is why it is important that it flows well with the rest of the house.
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The hallway (as well as all the common areas in my house) is painted Sherwin Williams Whole Wheat. Here is a view of the Whole Wheat in the hallway..
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In trying to decide on what to paint this bedroom, I considered yellows and yellow-golds, and also greens. I decided that I would rather have green for the bedroom because it is calming color and would be pleasing contrast with the whole wheat in the hallway. I selected Garden Sage by Sherwin Williams and I have painted the "sitting area" where the dressers are in this color. I am trying to convince myself that it was the right choice but you know how that goes...you keep staring at it second guessing yourself. Hubby likes it but I am not sold on it yet. The trouble is that I already purchased 3 gallons of this Garden Sage color because I was so sure this would be the right color. Sherwin William had HGTV color pallette cards in the store and Garden Sage was shown as a coordinating color with Whole Wheat so I figured I was making the right choice. The trouble is that the Garden Sage is lots of yellow in it and at times I am afraid that it looks like split pea soup :) Hubby thinks I am crazy. Downstairs we have Benjamin Moore Dried Basil in the living room which is a grayish green sage color and I suppose I could have just used that same Dried Basil up in our bedroom but for some reason I opted for this Garden Sage which is much warmer.
I know colors don't always show up accurate on a computer screen but here are pictures from various angles in the room. Keep in mind that I have only painted the sitting area...the other walls are still white. I would appreciate any honest opinions and advice. I know all colors change as the light changes in the room but this Garden Sage color looks very different from minute to minute it seems LOL :) Certain moments it looks very pretty and other moments it looks like dare I say..TOXIC WASTE! :) Maybe I am just overanalyzing! Should I stick with the Garden Sage and paint the remainder of the room? The other idea is that maybe I should paint the sitting area in one color and the rest of the room in a different color..for example, maybe a yellow-gold in one part of the room and green in the other part. Or perhaps I could paint the wall behind the headboard in a yellow-gold color and keep green on the rest of the walls. Or maybe I should have picked a different green. HELP!!!
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