Dark Living Room with Stone Fireplace
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Help! Paint color for small/dark 1939 living room!
Comments (6)I want it to look light and bright and was thinking of painting a light color, but everything I'm reading lately says that for dark rooms, you should go with the midtones, not pale colors. Why. Why are midtones better than pale colors for dimly lit rooms. Dollars to donuts those who give advice like that are working from bad and or misinformation about color and light. Same thing with stuff like white will never come to life in a dark room. Ridiculous. What colors work or do not work in a space depend on the specific characteristics of the light and *reflectance aspects of the paint color. White can indeed 'come to life' in a dimly lit room if you know to choose the right white. And you can use lighter colors in your dimly lit rooms too. *Reflectance aspects include tone. Or in other words, how grayed down or knocked back the color is. When you look at a paint color consider how light/dark (lightness value) it is and also how grayed or toned it is (intensity). Light/dark and grayness combined is called a color's nuance. To loop this whole thing together, the answer to choosing paint color for dimly lit rooms is to partner the dim quality of light with with perfect pitch of nuance. And for low-light, dim rooms that means you want to look for colors (light, midtone or dark) that are clearer vs. grayed. Might sound complicated but it's not. But the fact that the right way to do it sounds complicated is why stupid stuff like white will never come to life in a dim room and/or don't use lighter colors in dark spaces is perpetuated....See MoreAdding a window to a dark living room.
Comments (10)Try putting some blue tape outlining where the header is for a new photo. THen get some newspaper cut to the size of your tv, and tape it up at a convenient height (center at eyeball height when sitting on sofa watching tv). Take another photo. It'll be a lot clearer where your new window can go. You may be able to use a sliding shoji screen behind the tv to block light when it is on....See Moredark green fireplace / wall for small living room ?
Comments (0)Trying to give our 80 year old home a modern makeover. Would like our living room to have a bold dark green fireplace or paint the whole wall or two? Need guidance. Living room is small. Dark bold colors with gold accents and some art above couch. We have a leather brown couch coming to be delivered soon....See MoreAre these colours too dark in the living room?
Comments (1)They aren't too dark at all. As far as matchy matchy, I can't tell if they are the same fabric or not. (But I don't like that table for those chairs.) Have you lived with dark velvet before? It can show every speck of dust or fuzz. And you might have some concern with fading due to all the light in there. Nothing is more glorious than dark velvet of course. :)...See MoreDSYW
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