What color to paint living room?

Question

I have mannington oak flooring in my living room and dining room which are all one open space. I have alot of windows.... I Have brown furniture. Any suggestions to paint? I also need to coordinate colors to my hallway and kitchen with all open concept... Any suggestions are greatly appreciated....

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/

I think a green like "nurture green" (# 6451) would look terrific with the brown furnishings.

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

when re-decorating home, bedroom or any other room, always try to choose colors according to feng shui. in this case you will activate powers of 5 elements (water, earth, metal, wood and fire) and support all your lucky "areas" - this will attract love, romance, wealth, money, prosperity, luck etc etc

feng shui color blog: http://fengshuicolors.info/blog/

feng shui color guide: http://www.traditional-fengshui.com/feng...

feng shui bedroom ideas and tips http://fengshui.traditional-fengshui.com...

good luck!

Answer 3

That can be a tough task and you didn't give us answerers much to go on.  For example, it would be nice to know the hallway and kitchen colors.  And it would also be nice to know what shade of brown.  There are tons of browns.  I would decorate totally differently if the couch was a light brown than I would if it was a dark brown.

The nice thing is that you so far have very neutral colors in brown and oak that can go with almost any other color as long as you get the shade correct.

If you have a dark brown couch, with light oak floors you should probably go with a medium shade.  

If you have a light brown couch, it'd be best to go with a darker shade of paint.

One of the main ideas I like to use is contrast.  A contrast between light and dark focuses your eye on that diffence in contrast.  So if you want people to notice your couch don't make it the same shade as the wall, make it a lighter or darker shade depending one what your flooring is.  If you have a dark shade of wall, the light shade of couch will stand out agains the wall and will catch your eye.  If both are the same shade, your eye will more easily pass over it without noticing it.

Another thing that helps is to make sample pads.  Buy the smallest amount you can of the paint color you like best.  Then paint that onto a 12"x12" piece of cardboard with two coats.  Put some painter's tape on the back once it has dried and stick it up on the wall.  Then step back and see how it looks.

Move it around the room.  Look at it under various lighting (night time (all lights), day time, shade/end of day.  Paint colors look different under different lighting.  And a large open space can be the hardest to pick a color for.  Make sure to move the sample around near all of the major items you will have in the room.  Does the object look good with that color?  

I had a big open concept family room that included the entry way to the house.  I ended up painting it twice before sitting down the third time and saying, "OK, how do I pick the right color so that it works this time and I don't have to paint this humongous room a 4th time and not waste a ton of money."

That's when I came up with this method for picking out the color.  Sometimes I'll leave the paint color up for even a week now before picking the color.  By the end of a week's time and seeing it in all different lighting it becomes obvious which one you like best.

One other thing I found out is that Satin is the sheen I tend to like best.  Flat paints tend to show every touch up.  Paints with too much sheen tend to show every bump, dimple, and defect in the spackling/drywall job.  Satin is a nice medium that hides paint touch ups while still hiding the defects in the spackling job.

Answer 4

I think shades of blue work really well with shades of brown.

Answer 5

like maybe a tan or a light brown