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Anyone have a good eye for painting and decorating?
My house is brand new and the walls are completely white...I can't stand it. I've already picked out colors for the kitchen and the dining room so far but I'm completely at a loss for the living room and foyer. The house is set up so that in the foyer, the walls go all the way up to the second floor where there's a balcony looking down into the foyer at the front door. So whatever color I paint in the foyer has to be the same in the hall way upstairs as well. Now the kitchen is going to be a lighter olive green, which works for what I want. The only problem is that there is one great wall that extends from the kitchen and into the living room. The couches are like an orange-red color (I didn't pick them out...ugh!). What color should I do the other walls in the living room without sticking with a boring off-white color that can match the couches and the olive green but can also work upstairs as well?
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- FlusteratedLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
The sofas can be covered, so don't let them limit your color choices. Paint the kitchen the lighter olive, and on the wall that extends into the livingroom paint it darker olive for an accent wall. The remaining walls in the livingroom and upstairs can be a taupe if you don't want it all olive. Lowe's "antique" is nice...can't remember which color collection it's in, but it's nice and works well with olive - both colors i have in my home. BTW - the darker olive and the red/orange in the sofas go surprisingly well together if you add some accessories (throw pillows, etc.) that incorporate both colors to tie them together. Good luck!
Source(s): Mutual hatred of white walls. - c_kayak_funLv 71 decade ago
A cocoa tan (or the color of a paper bag) would coordinate well with both the olive green and the couches. Pick up some sample color chips and get a tan that is the same tint and intensity value of the olive color. My house is similar in that several walls from different rooms overlap. I used that shade of tan as a transition between two different colored rooms. Remember, you don't have to paint every wall in a room the same color. My den, which is between the kitchen and living room, has two walls painted the same as the living room and two painted a shade that transitions to the kitchen. If the colors are complimentary, this can work very well.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
paint the walls light beige
it looks pretty nice
