I am having carpet professionally installed throughout my home. My walls are tan/oatmeal and dark brown in the rooms to be carpeted. My furniture in my LR is blue and brown, in the bedrooms it is brown. Any thoughts?
2006-07-23 16:14:15 · 8 answers · asked by designchallenged 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Decorating & Remodeling
I'd say to stick with a neutral like tan or oatmeal. Any furniture will match. Carpet should not make a statement. It need to just blend in and not scream "look at me". Anything too dark shows lint and too light shows stains; go with a medium tone.
2006-07-23 16:27:38 · answer #1 · answered by mab5096 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forget the walls. A gallon of paint is much cheaper than a room of carpeting. I love the fact that you are going with the same color throughout your home. I like the continuity it provides. I like beige or tan...goes with everything. Peach is a neutral, but a bit "girlie". Just make sure that you get the very best padding you can. Your carpet will wear much better and last longer that way. Have fun.
2006-07-23 23:27:17 · answer #2 · answered by lockesmith 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you only want one colour throughout then go with a marbled brown colour. If you are a bit more daring maybe an emerald green, and add some of this with the blue and brown to the furniture with throw pillows.Or maybe green in the bedroom and a medium blue in the living room.
2006-07-23 23:26:26 · answer #3 · answered by songbird092962 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you need a neutral color and I had a lot of good luck with an off white carpet that had lots of speckles in it. Black brown and what not and I noticed that when even and idiot dropped and burned a cigarette burn in it you didn't notice it because of the speckles. It never did get a specific stain on it. It just took one dirty old dog to finally make me ditch the carpet. I washed it and noticed a wet rug smelled a lot like my dog when it was wet. Make sure to treat it with a stain guard I would think.
2006-07-23 23:27:05 · answer #4 · answered by farmgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would get berber (not sure on the spelling) with a cream color base that has flecks of tan and blue perhaps. The nice thing with berber is a) it has flecks of a bunch of colors so it's easy to match b) the multi-color thing makes it hide dirt better c) It is a really short, tough carpet so it doesn't show imprints very badly and d) it's cheap
2006-07-24 15:52:37 · answer #5 · answered by ontario ashley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use tan for uniformity. For variance of colour in yr home try beige, cream or very light grey.
2006-07-23 23:30:13 · answer #6 · answered by Donna H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A light cream or and off white should do it, make sure it is a stain proof... that would help... I dropped hot chocolate and it came right off
2006-07-23 23:20:34 · answer #7 · answered by Arun M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't go with white--it shows dirt. You can never go wrong with tan. Go with that. We have tan in our house and it's great..doesn't show dirt, nice and clean looking.
2006-07-23 23:17:54 · answer #8 · answered by BeeFree 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋