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? asked in Home & GardenDecorating & Remodeling · 10 years ago

Color scheme help. What color should I paint walls?

So I'm moving into my mom's basement to help her out and I need to repaint her walls. Someone gave me dark cherry flooring that's a floating floor. The floor might not be enough to cover the entire basement floor so I'm gonna probably buy either a remnant of carpet or a area rug. I just ordered a couch and chair that are black leather with white stitching to go in a corner. It's a pretty big basement. My problem is that I don't know what color to paint the walls that will compliment the flooring. Before I was given the floor, I was gonna do a dark brown called Golden Bronze by Glidden but now I'm thinking of a lighter brown. Either way, I'm gonna paint the trim an off white or cream color. So which color should I choose: darker brown or a lighter tan colored brown?

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    You will probably want to lean toward lighter colors for the wall should the flooring be dark. Considering the furniture is also dark, adding dark colors to the walls will make the area appear smaller.

    Decorating with lighter colors, open-bottom furniture and mirrors (if possible) will make the area appear larger and more welcoming.

    Best of luck to you!

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  • dyles
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    pass with browns & tans. Your first step is to coloration adventure the carpet. you may adventure the carpet so that you aren't to any extent further getting browns that conflict with it. as an celebration-some colorings have a yellow base at the same time as others have a blue base or a pink base. in the adventure that your carpet is a yellow depending blue, like maximum jeans, and also you position it with a blue depending brown or tan you'd be very uncomfortable (we are able to not even imagine about the white walls or your coloring the following because the carpeting is, i'm assuming, untouchable). Take the carpet coloration (you ought to objective to get an excellent sized piece like a a million/4 backyard of fabric on your carpet coloration adventure yet something might want to help-even a paint chip) with you once you keep for furnature and accesories. fortuitously, except you're coloration blind, you'll like the blend of coloration, no matter if that is ideal, once you look at it in both keep lights and photo voltaic (carry it ot the window-heavily) attempt to get some upload-ons interior of the same coloration because the carpet so it sounds like you planned the carpet. pass for ordinary coloration or huge stripes for the extra masculine look and step faraway from the football blanket!

  • ?
    Lv 4
    10 years ago

    Sage ( soft pale green) would be beautiful. Buttercream( yellow) would make the black leather stand out. I wouldn't use a tan or darker brown---taupe would be beautiful, though. Keep your trim white to match the white stitching in the couch and chair.

    Wrought iron accent pieces would go nicely with this color scheme.

    Good luck to you !

  • 10 years ago

    You may want to consider leaning to the gray family, it's still a neutral color, you can accent with color in the room (easier to change). That would also make the trim pop.

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