I need help picking out the colors to paint my room, help?

Question

My room is a rectangle, so its a little long. my furniture is white and sleek[modern] and my bedding is black and white. I want the shorter sides of my room and dark color, and the long side and light or bright color. for the shorter sides i want it to be a pretty purple, but i dont know what color to choose for the long sides. i think a pastel yellow or and light green will look nice. what do you think? also im 16 yr old girl, if that helps for you to know what kind of style i like. i like modern, and vintage, i dont really like girly, so not pink.

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/

Check out the colors "dewberry" (# 6552) and "breaktime" (# 6463) together. I think it would look terrific.

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 & they'll photoshop them onto your room so that you can get an idea of what it will look like.

Answer 2

Try tiffany blue (see Tiffany's).

You can accent it with your black stuff. It will also look nice with dark brown, pink or green accents.

It is a very flexible color. Pastel but not to girly.