who has a paint color or design recommendation for open plan…
I can’t decide what color to do the walls and trim in this space and if there are layout opportunities that I haven’t thought of yet. I’m willing to get a new couch and maybe new chairs. The table is a place holder and isn’t part of the usual room so that could be changed as well. I like modern classic style and also the obvious mid century modern. Any ideas? Would love to hear them!
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PROPatricia Colwell Consulting
2 years agoIMO before choosing wall color make sure all the lighting is LED 4000K this will mimic daylight and keep all color true in all times of the day. As for actual colors what is your favorite color/ If you are looking for a neutral but not whaite I love a really pale grayed green like Gray Wisp BM I use it often in new builds where wall color needs to be decided before anything is in the space . I sometimes cut it 25% . IMO a much better neutral than beige , greige or gray. I love it with wood tones too,
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Comments (8)Thank you so much for the information. I enjoyed the browse! Earlier in the day, after work, I went out and bought a quart of Dunn-Edwards Navajo White, which has a green tinge. Now I think I'm warming up to stepping it up a notch after seeing those pictures. Part of my problem is I have the pretty blues and greens in my nearby living room that would look so pretty with some of the yellow/olive like hues of green. But beyond my kitchen (and visible) is a step down area and den that are a green grey, which unfortunately doesn't look great with the maple, otherwise I'd just carry it on up. I wish the yellow that was on the wall worked, but I don't think it looks good with my silestone. I do like how it looks with the maple though. Here is a picture. I'm hoping a darker green might do the trick to work with both areas. I have spent so much $$ on paint samples that it is embarrasing! :-) Here is a link that might be useful:...See MorePlease help with paint colors for an open floor plan!
Comments (6)There's another thread about design seeds which is a website that takes lovely photos and uses them to inspire color schemes. In the thread linked below, I suggest ways in which you can use a palette to create rooms that all coordinate and flow without being all one color. You might want to take a look at that. You've got a lot of beautiful rooms to work with. Pretty generally, the best place to change a color, if not at a doorway, is at an inside corner...though if you have a good painter, you can break it at outside corners too. Here is a link that might be useful: Applying design seeds...See MoreWho has moved ad used same paint colors
Comments (19)For anyone who does not remember, I moved almost 5 years ago. I move about 5 blocks away. My house is currently on the south east corner of a major stop light intersection. My old house is on the north west corner. Our masterbedrooms face each other and when the trees are jsut right we can look at each other. We just finished 10 years of decorating the house and changed the floors when we found the new house and it was a blank slate with yucky floors and white walls. I keep all my swatches so I simply brought the colors with me. But I took it a step further. My dd and ds son rooms had just been done in old house so I bought all the same paint and wallpaper and duplicated the rooms. I had the paint picked out for masterbath and bed but had not painted it yet. Painted the rooms for the open house, then repeated in the new house. I had a just installed a custom ceiling fan in the masterbed but did not have time to switch it out so we bought another for new house and it was first thing we installed. We painted the diningroom hunter as I was unable to purchase the discontinued wallpaper that looked like venitian plaster. Due to the striped paper being discontinued, it took me 5 years to find just what I wanted to replace it for new house. Same idea, just more mediteranean like the new house is. The fam/kitchen/liv/halls were a light tan in ond house, I repeated in new house but later got a wild hair and changed the livingroom to red tone and entryway dark tan. I was unable to repeat the black crownmolding in the house- minus the white in the bedrooms- since house is waaaay bigger and we do not have energy to do this house yet. We may stick to all white in this house, seems more appropriate for the mediterannean look anyway. I tried to repeat the wallpaper in the kitchen but due to the open floorplan it was really hard to decide where to end it going towards the family room so we chose to stick with the neutral tan. So in my neighborhood for at least a few months, there were two houses within a few blocks that literally looked the same. The house foreclosed, it was our first home, and we were tempted to repurchase it and rent it out but worry about the rent not covering the mortgage. It would be really cool to see what remained decor wise. When we had open house we received many comments about how it looked like a model home. Guess I chose palet that was pleasing to many. So I figured I would stick with what worked....See MoreOpen floor plan with different flooring-what paint color???
Comments (6)Putting beige and gray together in the same space used to be frowned on, but lately I've seen this done rather successfully, for instance where the rug was gray and the upholstery beige. With my light beige upholstery my new carpeting is going to be a warm gray color called London Fog which I would say is more or less greige. However, for a wall color I would probably choose something lighter, more like the solid color of your rug. It's already next to the "yellow" floor and I don't think it clashes. That color would lighten up your living room considerably and make the art on the wall pop more....See MoreKatie K.
2 years agoThanks for the ideas and graphic everyone! Glad you brought up the mantle, that’s probably on the chopping block as well. This whole room and connected kitchen need updating. I’ve been thinking about a light green (behr jojoba) or blue for cabinets. Thoughts? Just love getting ideas, even if they’re totally different from what I have in mind
Katie K.
2 years agoBeverly - did you recommendation with the fireplace and looks great! Now we’re trying to decide if a color change should happen. Maybe painting the stone and hearth gray? Open to other ideas. Here is a color scheme that we like but are unsure of and a picture of our progress
PROKatie K.
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2 years agoSome option to go with lighter trim and neutral walls
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoHere is some visual with blue trim. I am not a fan .
Katie K.
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