Bring the black of the ceiling down…either side of wood paneling.

Bring the gray of the rug up onto the side walls. Consider:

as it is in the Passive Gray strip, but much lighter.

This effect:

You have a hard job, as there have been a lot of fingers in the pie. So many things chosen, but with no definite design plan. Have the chairs been deilvered? I wonder who came up with the bright blue…not so good.

Keep your eye on the color of the gray chairs when matching a wall paint with the chairs and the rug.

Yes, it's a challenge. I don't have a picture of the chairs here, but they were already ordered and being used by the congregation before this project began. Your image and the artist's rendition are a pretty close match to the blue of the chairs- which is one of my concerns. Then the gray is lighter than those in your image. I like the nebulous white. The carpet in the image with the brown and naval colors will be changed so that won't be a concern. I will upload a picture of the wood and carpet sample. The wood is a little redder than your image, which again was a choice I have little control of, so am thinking that adds another color tone in the room. Thank you so much for everyone's help. I am aware that I am way out of my league. I wonder about the white ceiling idea given. Isn't the use of black on a ceiling a good choice in hiding all the hardware in the ceiling? This is a 16 foot high room, and the joists are 140 years old, so they are not consistent in size and don't show any of the natural state- just dark in color, a little stained and chipped up. We were able to pull out two old brick chimney shafts, which we sand blasted and they look real nice..,but realistically that's another tone in the room....

Typical church design by committee! Before you decide on the ceiling, ask yourself how you want the space to feel? All white will camouflage the ceiling elements almost as well as all black, but it's the overall function that should dictate the choice. Some churches prefer a dimmer room to help with projecting onto a screen in the front. Others adjust their AV to suit a brighter space. What does your church prefer? Image examples of ceiling color.

Apart from that, the blue/ grey chairs are quite loud. That's ok. Deciding how you want the color dispersed is important. It can be orderly or random. Play around with it and see what you like. the second image shows blue in center with grey on the side, but if done well, random mix could be interesting, but harder to achieve.

Will there be a large screen front and center of the stage, or are they placed on the side? IMO that wall feature seems rustic for those chairs and much prefer JudyGDesign suggestion for the vertical slats. Be careful not to make the church stage design too interesting. If you look at modern church spaces, they are very quiet. It help you focus on what's important.

I do find your idea of blue side wall appealing, combined with the vertical slats. With White Ceiling and White Walls (could be a softer greyed white). While this image has a busy center portion, I think you see what I am suggesting.

How much of what you have mentioned actually has been purchased?

You could do a navy blue ceiling….but, I don’t like it with that dark, almost black, rug.

If you could change the flooring to a LVP, or commercial tile or carpet, and match it to the wood paneling on the wall, everything would fall into place. Even a brown rug would make it easier for you and look much better in the space.

Here is a Mohawk commercial carpet. It is solution dyed (very important), shown with Naval.

If it is possible to go brown on the floor, blue on ceiling, then all should tie in with the adjoining room, which you say is going to get new carpet. Because you are working with Antiquarian Brown on one accent wall, use a Mohawk commercial carpet which works with the plain Mohawk Henna above.

Thank you for all your excellent suggestions. Here are a couple answers and thoughts:

We will be using two tv-like big screens on the left and right sides of the wood treatment.

The wood treatment we anticipated would be like this: Not sure how it would look vertical?

I like the idea of making the ceiling more of a dark gray/ vs. black, as was shown in one of the pictures. I am leaning towards more neutral tones on the walls- the different shades of gray vs. the blue. But I like how you've described bringing a wall tone down- as I can see how that would make the room feel more cohesive and perhaps bigger.

Flooring- I hadn't considered a brown, but will definitely look at that idea. We are not buying that right away, so we have time on that decision. I assumed gray tones would be best with the other tones I was considering.

Our chairs:

I have a meeting, but will get back on this again tonight. THANK you!

You should keep in mind that even though this a worship center, you should be looking at commercial products. The wood you are considering for the wall…keeping that dust free is going to be very difficult. The sample of the dark gray rug….just pull on one of the strands and watch it unravel…not good.

Good luck and keep us posted.

In the meantime, investigate some commercial products. I just finished a healthcare lobby and used all Mannington products.

https://www.manningtoncommercial.com

Thank you so much JudyG Designs and Simplechoices! I appreciate your knowledge and the time you've given with suggestions and pictures. As of tomorrow I have to turn in these paint colors to the painters. The painters will only work with Diamond Vogel paints, so I've been trying to cross reference with my SW choices, which is always my go-to paint co., but the decision has been made; we are going with Captain Nemo on the front (both sides of wood). If you can look up that color, it is a deep gray (hint of blue) and it looks nice with our chairs- both the blue and the gray. I'd love your opinion- if you have one about this, on the color to choose for the three other walls in the room (both sides and the back). I am leaning toward Diamond Vogel- Metro. I don't understand enough about the technical aspects of warm/vs/cold and Light reflecting or not, but perhaps you can speak to that regarding these colors?

We will make the carpeting choice after the painting is done. I appreciate your thoughts on how dark the carpet choice is, and I like the "rust" suggestion, so I'll begin looking in that direction. I think a blend of those tones- gray/rust/touch of blue? would make for a nice carryover of the antiquarian brown and might make the two brick columns accented too. The sample I had shown you- I was told, is commercial grade, solution dyed, and nylon. I did pull a loop and it did pull a few loops out, but not in one long strand...so not sure on that.

I wanted to alter the ceiling to a deeper gray/bluish choice as JudyG Designs suggested, but it is too late....today the black paint arrived. How I wish I would have put my discussion on much sooner!

Thank you, again! I so appreciate your suggestions!

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