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Need help with paint and decorating our new main floor!

5 years ago

Bought a new house! The house is still staged so ignore the furniture. We are getting a grey or cream couch for the living room and a farmhouse table for the dining room. What colors would you suggest for paint? I like greys more than straight beige.

What color couch or accent chairs would you suggest? What color farmhouse table would you suggest for the dining room that goes with the floor?

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Bev

5 years ago

I have both warm and cool tones in my living room and they work! With a charcoal gray sofa (great choice), I would suggest a medium to light gray paint. Just make sure it looks great with both your furniture and flooring like I suggested in my last post. Here is a photo of my living room, so you can see how well warm and cool colors work together:

My sofas are on the beige side but I have cool walls, drapes, and all the colors were used on the pillows I created for the sofas.

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housegal200
5 years ago
I don't have specific paint colors, but others with expertise will weigh in. Just make sure your paint selection goes with fixed features of the house: your wood floor color--it's a fourth wall, kitchen/bathroom flooring and cabinets--as well as with furniture you're bringing to the new house. Lots of times on Houzz a Dilemma poster feels room color is off even though they love the wall color. Often the problem is that flooring, cabinet, and furniture colors don't work with the chosen paint color. Best way to test a color is to get huge white poster board, spring for the paint, and try it out against floors at different times of day and against furniture finishes and materials you'll be bringing in.
Bev
5 years ago
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The best way to find the right color of gray for your walls is to go to BM, SW, or Behr's paint websites since they all have virtual rooms you can paint and try out new colors. Once you find one or more that you like, I suggest buying samples of each paint color you like and painting a good sized section of each color on the wall of the room you will be using them in. Look at the color or colors for at least 2 or 3 days to determine if they will work, looking at them in both sunny and cloudy days along with the lamps and lighting you will use in the room at night. I do love the color of the dining room! BTW - I have 3 shades of gray now in my house! I only use Behr paints and my foyer and living room are painted with Classic Gray (medium gray); Dark Pewter for my bedroom (I wanted a darker bedroom); and Sterling for my hallway, which is a light silvery gray.
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Boxerpal
5 years ago
The floor is a warm brown so I wonder if a warm gray might help. Or something super light like Balboa Mist by BM. I love that color because it can be warm or cool but stays in the gray family. It is also so light as to not darken a room too much.

I happen to like the bright teal blue color in your dining room so I might be inclined to keep that. What colors do you like?

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Oh and dining room farm house tables...

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Jillian Jean
Original Author
5 years ago
Thank you guys for the advice!! I currently have a charcoal couch I’d like to work into the living room if possible. If I go with this couch, I worry the wood floor is too warm and the couch is too cool and dark? Then I would probably go with a lighter grey paint? I’ve been looking at the attached warmer greys.
Jillian Jean
Original Author
5 years ago
This is how the floor plan works also. The cabinets are white but I believe they look yellowish with that lighting.

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