Paint Color Frustrated/Overload
I have painted the various room in my house with a variety of colors including:
SW 9037 Baby Bok Choy,
SW 6478 Watery,
SW 6129 Restrained Gold and
SW 6136 Harmonic Tan.
My house is a modest 1700 square foot ranch with an open floor plan. The front entrance is painted with the Bok Choy and Watery colors. This opens into the living room which is painted Restrained Gold. The entrance area also has views into the dining/kitchen combo which walls are painted the Harmonic Tan.
The flooring is similar to the SW 6126 Navajo White.
The wood trim throughout the house is a blonde oak.
Is this too much color? How about a color I could use to complement all rooms in small touches? Blues? Greens? How could I improve the flow? Any suggestions are welcomed! I am experiencing overload! I like many different colors.
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2 years agoWith your warm cream floors and blonde oak trim, I think the blues and greens would be better without the two tan/camel colors. You can keep your rooms in blue and green and then paint the rest of your space a light nuetral, like Sea Salt or a nuetral white. A lighter more nuetral color on the walls allows you to use different accent colors in each room. This example shows a warm white with Pallidian Blue in an adjacent space.
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2 years agoDepends on how much you like color!
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2 years agoYou can always paint over the color if you don’t like it, but if you do like the color, sometimes the way to make color immersion work is to put a very strong shape or graphic in the room. Don’t have ordinary furniture if your walls aren’t an ordinary wall color like white, beige or gray
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2 years agoI think if this poster was in this room, it would look fine with a few tweaks to the room, like a strong blue throw on the chair, and a stronger hue in the curtains, maybe a blue and white patterned ceramic table lamp rather than a white one.
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I also think this poster would work instead, maybe with just a much stronger red ceramic lamp as the only change.
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoDo a tan and red patterned rug instead of tan and orange, and I think either poster works for this room.
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Your posters are lively and the rooms you like have some serenity, so you might want to think about where you put your posters if you want that serenity. You might not want them as the focal point of the room, but an accent piece off to the side.
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I think it is hardest to make your posters work in this, unless you framed this one in as strong and thick a gold frame as the artwork in the niche is framed in the left behind the sofa, and instead of the pale center pillows on the sofa, one with bright red or coral squiqqles, one with feathers! I might put a feather throw on the chair.Zambelli-Bassi Giclee Print by Achille Luciano Mauzan at Art.com · More InfoUser
2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoI think the place to start is with the function of the rooms. All these rooms you like look very comfortable and useful. I think a comfortable room works in any color if you can see a reason for being in the room, doing what you want to do.
If your entryway is Watery and Bok Choy, can you bring in cream and black and plants?
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