I need help with this two story foyer wall color.....ideas please.
How do I put together wall colors for our two story foyer? The TV room (the wall with the sconce) is painted Behr cocoa.( Disregard the line and the patches of color-I'm stuck.) The short stairway wall in the foyer is SW Tumblin' Tumbleweed and this color has ended here because it wraps down the hall into the living room and kitchen.( I have bullnose corners and don't like to split a corner with two different colors, I would rather continue a color and have it end in an inside corner if I must.) Also, pictured is the builder ceiling pattern/color. It is a very pink/beige/white. The original foyer wall color from the builder is also the same color as the ceiling and does not go at all with my goldy green tumbleweed color. (The cocoa color does coordinate with the ceiling, so I did not paint the TV room ceiling.) I don't think I wanted that cocoa color in my whole foyer. Please, your suggestions and ideas. Thanks so much.
Our new floor is in, the stair treads and stair railing will be stained to match. That's primer on the stairway wall halfway up and top floor. What colors there?
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chickadee70
6 years agoWill that color go with my pinky/beige/white ceiling treatment? Should Pale smoke go into the TV room? What about my short stairway wall with the living room color?
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoI would stick with a neutral beige....SW.....Accessible Beige
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6 years agoYes, to your first question. You can see the lower TV room ceiling here and how it opens to the foyer. That walkway measures 47" width ( including future baseboard.) I thought a post against that wall would balance the newel on the other side and allow for a "separation" between spaces? I don't know what the color should do in this area? My husband wants the darker brown for the TV room. Also, our color "cocoa" drives me crazy- it goes pinky (flesh beige) with an east facing window light-(the picture below was taken this morning) and goes blue(brown) and relaxed in the evening with sconce/lamp light. I love the color in the evening. Most mornings, I think I need to repaint! Thanks for your interest.
chickadee70
6 years ago
PROJudyG Designs
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoNo….I would do the all cup of cocoa. The you won’t have those breaks with the wrap walls.
Second floor hall walls, you do (I suggested, but there are other choices) light blue.
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6 years agoThank you for your interest and suggestions. I think I could find another shade of brown, repaint the TV room and continue into foyer. I love the light blue (I already have it upstairs in bedrooms) and especially blue with brown, nice. I'm not sure I can commit to browning up the two story foyer with Cup of Cocoa, and I don't love that color with my floors . Any suggestions for another shade of brown to go with light blue, my door and my floors? Here's a photo of my door color, my floors (they look more orange than they really are) and my color inspiration from
my rug that is in the TV room.- PRO
JudyG Designs
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoStill looking for a brown…in the meantime…a dark blue or blue/green appeal?
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6 years ago chickadee70
6 years agoHere's the room- first room you see when entering the house. I'm standing in my foyer at the front door. I'd also like to get suggestions for this room (possible lamps and artwork on that big wall, a sofa table behind the loveseat?, I need to get my plants in front of the window) My dining room (right) is painted SW Honest Blue. The TV (not pictured) is in the right corner attached to the wall with a console under it.
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