Dark green or peach, so I dare? Need help with paint for living room…
Toying with colors for our north facing living room. We are in a row house, the living room opens up to yhe dining room and open kicthen. Kitchen is white walls and SW Repose grey cabinets. Dining room is chantilly lace white under chair rail, and meadowseet wallpaper in smoke above. We have hung art in the dining room with lots of dusty blues, moody greens, and peach. we love it and think pullinh a color from there would look amazing. I’m leaning toward a darker green, but my daughter thinks it will feel too heavy.. My husband prefers peach. Would love some help here! im attaching a mood board i made which features the art and the furniture (we have the sofa and eames chair already, and the rug).
i picked up two samples yesterday, BM Caldwell Green (bottom) and Farrow and Ball Green Smoke (top). Im thinking of trying BM Jack Pine too.
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Comments (13)Hi Nutmegxo. I see why you're attracted to those last pictures. The fresh colors & nice workmanship make those rooms seem very attractive. However, you say that your house is a center hall Colonial, and those wall treatments derive from Mission and Arts & Crafts style house of the early 1900s, where the whole idea was to create a completely different--a more modern--feel than the Colonial houses of the century before. Oh, sure, you can mix styles all up--people do it all the time--but while a mix of different furniture styles in a single house can work out just fine, a mix of architectural feaures cobbled together from different styles in different centuries isn't often a success, especially when, as in a center hall plan, each room is clearly visible from the other. Normal size doorways with doors that close allow you to sneak the odd painted room into a house full of stained wood, or add an Art Deco bathroom to a Tudor manse, but the typical broad doorways in Colonial Revival houses make using different architectural styles in adjacent rooms a dicier proposition. That's the thinking behind some of the posters' suggestion above. Let's take a closer look at that blue room you posted. Pretty colors, that's for sure. But there are a few things that show somebody missed the bus. One of the things that bothers me is that the door looks like a generic six-panel door out of the Big Box store. These days, six-panel doors are as ubiquitous as were hollow-core slab doors when I was growing up in the 196Os, and like those doors, these are often used where they don't belong. A six-panel door in a modern house or contemporary condo is every bit as out-of-place as a slab door in a Federal style house, and just because they're easy to find (and some people see them as 'nicer' than cheap hollow core doors) doesn't make them suitable. Even if we assume that whever combined a door style from 1760 with a wall treatment from 1900 knew exactly what they were doing--and I'm not at all sure that's the case--they still missed an opportunity to do it well. Look at the door's cross-member. Now look at the upper horizontal on the wall. How hard would it have been to raise that wall molding four inches so it would align with the lines of the door? Or, if instead of painting the door all white, they really wanted to feature the [mismatched] door, why didn't they space the wall's moldings to match the panels on the door? Doing that could have allowed the blue to flow unbroken across the door's lower panels, better integrating the door into the overall look of the room. But instead of going to the hassle of finding a more approriate period-style door--either a five-panel model with stacked horizontals, or a three-panel model with one square panel above two vertical panels--or, if this wall treatment is new, adjusting it to match the door's proportions, they just took the easy no-thought middle course, buying & hanging a generic door with little thought given to how to better relate it to the other features in the room. Those kind of details are the things that, thought about early enough in the process, can make a a huge difference in the final results, and they often cost no more than doing things the same way everybody else does them and coming up with the same predictable results. Good design isn't about money, it's about thinking. But these days, all it takes is a pretty coat of paint to make a lot of people think a room is well-designed. M....See MoreSmall Dark Living Room Needs Help!
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoI currently have a big crush on F&B Green Smoke, so that would be my choice. I’ve seen so many pictures of rooms with it, and haven’t seen one I didn’t like yet. I’m sure you’ve searched it yourself. It’s just beautiful — cozy, sophisticated, moody, calm. And great depth.
I like your ideas and think dark green would look great … and not suck the light out of your room or be too dark at all. Especially Green Smoke, which seems to reflect light nicely.
This is SW Shade Grown, maybe another to consider. But I like Green Smoke much better. :)
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoBoth of those are Green Smoke.
Please update, would love to see! I like your style, it’s going to look great.
ETA: Also — the room has a large opening to a brighter room, so that’ll keep it from being cave-like, plus be an awesome contrast and separation of rooms. White would be so boring. :)
ETA II: If you haven’t already, look up the Green Smoke hashtag on Instagram. So many great photos. It’s a very versatile color.
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoAfter living with the green smoke sample for a day, realized it was really washed out in our light. So put up two greener samples, (see pic below: Jack Pine on top and Cedar Mountain on bottom). Family says the Jack Pine but I‘m leaning toward the Cedar Mountain. Thoughts?
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoI see the peek of peach next to the wood and it's a no go! I sort of get what I think @everdebz is saying. Both adjacent rooms are very light though I think you can get away with bold and dramatic here and there, just repeat the colors again thoughout. If you go with the green, maybe move your painting into the living space to bring over those lighter colors (and it would look amazing against that green).
Then choose something more bold for the dining room and add touches in the kitchen of the green (maybe a runner or green plant). Up against that wallpaper, I would choose a black frame with a white mat, or canvas. These are probably not exactly right, but I think you get the idea...
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoOf course you need to do what you like and are comfortable with, but I don’t think you have to go lighter in here just because your other rooms are light. Or that you have to carry the same colors in each room. In row houses, Victorians, etc, historically the rooms would be treated individually rather than like a more modern open concept home.
Sharing for fun, I love row houses:
https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/historic-renovated-rowhouse-decor-ideas-268152
https://food52.com/blog/26120-a-home-makeover-inspired-by-the-outdoors
https://www.vestige-home.com/journal/2020/12/8/an-artful-english-philadelphia-rowhouse-reveal
Bold, individual rooms:
I love F&B Olive with grays (source: https://instagram.com/ramseyresidence?utm_medium=copy_link):
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2 years agoJust a quick update. I decided to go for it and painted the walls Cedar Mountains. At first, i hated it. But after a day, I actually started loving it. Not sure if Ill keep it for good, I am waiting on our new furniture (that chair and cabinet pictured are going) and will hang art in the living room and dining room/kitchen before ultimately deciding, but I think it’s going to be really good! I really love having COLOR on the walls. It’s quite a refreshing change from grey/neutral blue and the room feels incredibly cozy (not drab at all).
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