BenM Shaker Beige or Putnam Ivory. Each of those colors contrasts to Pineapple Smoothy in a good, interesting, complex way, IMO. Both could be considered as dulled colors and Pineapple Smoothy would be clearer or cleaner in comparison. You can juxtapose clear and dull paint colors. It's another layer of contrast. And we all remember the layers of color contrasts that can be used to make spaces balanced, interesting, and alive: ÂIntensity (dulled or clear) a.k.a Chroma (grayed or vivid) ÂHue (the quality by which we distinguish one color from another, red, green, blue) ÂValue (how light or how dark) ÂTemperature (warm or cool) Chroma is 'more correct' to use when speaking in paint color language. Saturation kinda means the same thing but saturation is more often used when speaking computer monitor and printing color language. Fine line between Chroma and Saturation. Almost no one uses the terms correctly. It's not a big deal, but Munsell defines them like this if you wanna know the diff: Chroma is the [visual] measurement of how pure a Hue is in relationship to gray. Saturation is simply the degree of purity of a Hue. Intensity can correctly interchange for chroma or saturation. Intensity, however, does not refer to value (light/dark). Confusion on this point is the most problematic. When some says colors are the same intensity, I'm thinking when eyeballin' the colors against a grayscale, they hit about the same place - that chroma and saturation part of color. If they actually mean that the colors are about the same in lightness and darkness, it's a whole 'nother *part* of color they're talking about and intensity is not the right word to use. If you take away anything, don't use the word intensity if you're talking about lightness/darkness value. There are other words that can be used to speak to lightness/darkness value that describes color in a similar manner as intensity speaks to chroma and saturation. Now that we have that extremely vital color tidbit cleared up the world can get back to spinning and we can get back to important life stuff like will Shaker Beige or Putnam Ivory work next to Pineapple Smoothy. âº

I also like the last one you posted and think it will work well. I also have two rugs close by in an open floorplan. What I've found works well is to use similar colors, but to have the rugs vary either in pattern or in the predominate background color. One rug has a gold background with rust, brown and sage accents with a black border; the adjacent rug has a sage background with the rust, gold, and brown accents. They need to be different enough to stand alone, but have some elements in common in terms of style and colors to link them together.

I like this for your kitchen. Has cage style but bulb is not exposed which can be bothersome in a kitchen. Can’t beat price. I would need to have measurements of ceiling height? How high is island countertop? Are pendants for island? Photo would really help. I like black in entry and dining room but kitchen you can go brushed or chrome.

Show us rugs or rooms. I would coordinate and NOT match the patterns.