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Need help with a Boring Dining Room
Comments (3)Does anyone know how to download a picture on the discussions side of forum. I see some posts have a picture in the post. Just need to know how to do that. Thanks!...See MoreBoring Dining Room Help!
Comments (49)our rooms lack architectural detail. When we moved in my husband installed chair rail molding in everywhere. We liked it when we had sparse furnishings. But now that we have a house full of furniture (advice: have a general Plan or style in mind so your house ends up cohesive as you said)....some of our rooms are too small for the chair rail..its distracting and adds clutter. I'm not a designer, but to my eye, your room appears narrow and the highwainscotting idea adds to that and makes the room look even narrower. I think the room is too small for chair molding as well, and w/o a crown molding the chair rail looks lost. The darker color paints look great, but keep in mind the lighting the room receives if the room is visible to you during the daytime....See MoreHi :) Can anyone help me with the most boring living room on earth?
Comments (14)You can add a lot of color and brightness through the use of accessories. You can add them all in a single color...as here they focused on the coral... ...or gold ...or any other color, preferably a bright one. Or you can add multiple colors such as aqua, orange and acid green as suggested by this design seed. You can even choose stark white as your accent color. Regardless of color, take a look at the pictures above and notice how much interest is added through texture and pattern. And notice how the window treatments are used to reinforce the color theme. Especially in the first one, notice how important the color in the art is to the room as a whole. Here's a room that is all white, beige and brown, yet notice all the textures that keep the room interesting...pattern on the rug, another on the throw pillows, texture on the white pillows, wood, ceramics, pattern on the window treatments, leather on one chair, velvet on the other texture in the sea shells. So there's a lot you can do with brown to make it bright and keep it interesting...just choose carefully what else you put in the room and the brown will become a neutral background for whatever color story you wish to tell....See MoreBored of Orange Walls. Paint Dining Room White?
Comments (34)Sorry, cross post. I would still leave the wood on the stair, even if you paint the rest of the room white. I would never paint trim the same color as the wall because I love trim and want it to show. but as in the Tillinghast photo above, it does give a sleek background. (I like gray, too. but that 's for me. )...See MoreSusie .
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