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What paint colors would go good with a toasted coconut (a neutral beige) and maroon red?

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The living room and dining area is painted these two colors. There are two other rooms (kitchen and a 2nd dining room) that are open to these rooms and attach to the hallway. So these rooms would need to match. I can paint mainly the neutral color, but offset some walls with another color that's not red. What do you suggest?

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  1. Cream or white.


  2. I am doing similar coordination with three common rooms that look into each other. I found that it didn't look good with one room being lighter than the others but instead all three the same depth of tone and went with a medium base on all three so no certain room sticks out.

    Do you have other colors in your upholsetery in the living room, like a green or something?  I would take an accent color from a fabric or pattern  or drape in the living room and use it in the other room. For example my living room is a warm gold but the furniture has a lot of cranberry and sage and deeper tan so the two adjoining rooms are sage and the other in the tan ( I felt burgundy was too dark and would lok too bold among the med gold and sage rooms and happy I stayed with in the same hue and not too dark or bright with one room). After about two months dillemma and a $30.00 gallon of wrong shade too  ( I went with a paler gold for the dining and it looked misfitting  among the medium shaded rooms) I am happy and can sleep at night. Colors are starting to drive me crazy.  

  3. 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 it would look terrific to do a fresh green like "bonsai tint" (# 6436).

    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.

  4. Well, a you could go with a chocolate brown, or a navy blue might be nice too. it all really depends on your decor. If you wanted something a little brighter, but still very pretty, try a mustard yellow. I recommend going to sherwin-williams.com, or behr.com and using the color tools to help you out. (At Sherwin-williams.com, go to "colors and tools" in the homeowner section, and click "launch the color visualizer".)

  5. I think white or black, our dining room has close to the colors you are working with and we used black.

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