How do I paint my living room/dining combination?

Question

I have an open floor plan. From the entry you see my living room and dining room. I have painted the living room in light and a darker green with yellow undertones, but would like to make my dining room look "apart" from the living room without using a color that "doesn't go" with the living room. What color should I use or should i continue the darker green? My carpet is taupe, and the sofa and chairs are raspberry with green.

The living room is 22 x 15 and the dining room is 12 x 12.

Answer 1

play around with the Sherwin Williams color visualizer to find colors that you like. It is the best paint visualizer on the web, imho. I like how their color palette is laid out, I like that you can search by color family & color name, the "painted" rooms look the most realistic, and it suggests coordinating color schemes. You can literally spend hours:

http://www.sherwin.com/visualizer/

A neutral like "anew gray" (# 7030) might be a great color choice.

You can also take a photo of your house & upload it to the makeover gallery on this website:

http://www.roomvues.com/

You can get color suggestions & for $5 they'll photoshop them onto your room so that you can get an idea of what it will look like.

Answer 2

I would go with a color off of the same paint chip but a different shade.