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Living Room Accent Wall

7 years ago

Hi there :-) I'm in love with the attached picture and would like to find a paint color like this accent wall attached. Any suggestions of colors to try for this look and for a coordinating color for the other walls? Also, my kitchen is open to this room and need to be painted as well. I would like to find another coordinating color.

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Hockeymom84
7 years ago
Pictures of your room?
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Anglophilia
7 years ago
I'm not a fan of "accent" walls - they will quickly date a house. One never finds a truly high end interior designer using these - this is strictly an HGTV look. Find a color and use it on all the walls. I love the brown paint but I'd have continued it on the other walls as well.
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IMO your current room looks much nicer than your inspiration pic. I would get a much larger, colorful rug, end tables/lamps, larger art, coffee table, etc. Your fireplace decor could be beefed up. I see no point in having an accent wall or painting anything gray,
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aprilneverends
7 years ago
Dunn Edwards' Twilight Taupe looks a lot like this color.

If you google it-it shows differently on monitor. Ar least on mine-it looks like a lilac.

In real life, it's not. Not at all. It's very much a rich brownish purple.

You'll need to try samples of different colors in your own place in your own light though..other people's experience can help only to a certain degree, since every house is different.
Angela
Original Author
7 years ago
Thanks so much for the input thus far! I have attached 3 pics of my family room/kitchen area. The first 2 are from before we moved in but it shows the space and the last is current. Don't mind the clutter ;-) Also, the furniture is transitioning out as I put the room together.

I'm not generally a fan of accent walls but I am in LOVE with this room. I really want to recreate it. I think doing a dark color on all of the walls would be too much for me. Additionally the left wall runs up the stairs to the second floor, so I plan to carry whatever color is on that wall the whole way up.

I put several Sherwin Williams colors on the wall today. I liked the Bitter Chocolate but my husband isn't a fan (haven't decided if he gets input or not yet ;-)) and another we liked was Folkstone. I feel the Folkstone is a little too gray and not enough chocolate.
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Anglophilia
7 years ago
So much of what you are liking about that room is the architecture - that high vault over the fireplace, and the higher end furniture. You don't have this architecture (most of us don't!) so your room will never look like this one. That fireplace has a HUGE marble mantle - you have a mantel similar to mine. I despise that since WWII, all fireplaces are just plopped on a wall with the firebox jutting to the outside of the house. Prior to WWII, it jutted into the room which caused an alcove on both sides of the fireplace for bookcases or furniture. It looked SO much better.

Get whatever furniture you're going to get and then paint. Easier than trying to find furniture to match your paint.

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