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Help Deciding on a Dining Room Color

14 years ago

We just bought a 22 y/o sort of New England style house. It has white siding, black shutters weather vane on garage.

I need help deciding on a paint color for the dining room.

FYI. The family room has brown/cherry red wainscoting, brick fireplace and dark beams on the ceiling. The kitchen has dark cherry cabinets. The entry, dining room, den, kitchen and back hallway all have wood floors.

I have painted the family room,family room ceiling, kitchen, and entry BM Wheeling Neutral. All of the dark wainscoting and brick fireplace make the family room feel like a libray.

The den(officially a formal living room that we are going to use it as a study) just got painted BM Frasier Fir.

Since the house has so much dark wood with the wainscoting and kitchen cabinets and we are using the living room as a den, I wanted a soft, creamy color for the dining room.

I picked BM Waterbury Cream.

I love the color, but I'm not sure if it will look right. (The house is being painted while we are on vacation.)

Any suggestions for a dining room color?

My DR furniture is all formal,mahogany. Henkel Harris double pedestal table, Bevan funnell sideboard and demi-lune table.

Recap:

Entry,Family Room and ceiling,Kitchen: BM Wheeling Neutral

Den(Formal Living Room) : BM Frasier Fir

Any comments/suggestions appreciated.

Melissa

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Comments (2)

bird_lover6
14 years ago
Mahogany looks beautiful against something like BM Palladian Blue or RH Silver Sage.
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Original Author
14 years ago
My friend has Palladian Blue in one of her sons' bedrooms. It is pretty, but I think it would be too light with the rest of the house.

The den (formal living room that will be used as a study) is painted Fraser Fir and is directly across the hall.

Thanks, Melissa
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