Please help with wall color for new home?

Question

We just built a new home, and I need help on my paint choices. The home is on an open plan, with the kitchen/dining rooms being visible from the living room. I wish to paint my living room a Moss Green or Sage. I have hardwood floors, and my furniture will be a oak finish. My couch consist of sage, burgandy, golds and browns. My chairs will be a deeper green like a willow color. The dining room/kitchen is one area, and is directly off the living area, open floor plan. My floors are a beige/cream ceramic tile, cabinets are a fruitwood color, has a hint of a peachy look, and the countertops are a cream/beige mix with specks of a darker brown and black. I really want my living room to be sage or moss green, and would like my kitchen to be a peach or maybe terra cotta color, but do not want an eyesore, could someone recommend a color for my kitchen/dining area if I did paint my living room Sage. Also a good color for window coverings..curtains..drapes. I would really appreciate your help

Answer 1

Go with your instincts. Peach would work very well with the sage green. Especially if you carry the sage into the kitchen as an accent colour, mixed with the darker terra cotta. Also try tying it together with your ceiling colour. Take the sage and lighten it til it looks white unless white is against it for contrast. Do all ceilings this colour, living room dining room and kitchen. It is very subtle but you will be amazed the difference it can make.

Answer 2

I love your sage green idea for the living room. I'd stick with that!
The kitchen would be really pretty in a peachy/rose color. Maybe even a tone of brown would be really nice. But it should be a warm tone. Like closer to tan than dark brown or gray brown. Don't do terra cotta. wouldn't match your color style.
Just get a bunch of color swatches that you like of a variety of creams, roses, peaches and the such and then hold them against the wall, one at a time (don't put them next to each other) and then next to the cabinets, next to the sage green walls, etc. You'll find your perfect match by doing this. Also remember that the color on the swatch always will turn out darker on the wall.

Do the drapes in the living room big and flowing around the window(s) in colors of burgundy, brown and maybe a little bit of greens and creams. Some big floral or leafy print would be nice.

The kitchen can have just your regular wide wood blinds to cover or get off-white blinds and have sheers a similar color to the walls but a shade or two darker.
You can also get just plain beige drapes for the kitchen or a creamy/beige color and they would look good.

Good luck! I hope I helped!

Answer 3

It is important that the color in the different rooms around the house come together logically. Analyze each of the tones; determine which colors, and in what proportions, they complement each other to give the final result.

Here are ten household helpful hints for choosing room colors:

1 Brighten up the darker spaces by painting the walls in pale colors.

2 If you paint a high ceiling a dark color, will make it look lower.

3 A light blue or a gray make a small room seem wider.

4 Use the wall colors to mark off areas according to actives.

5 Red and reddish tones are bold, exciting colors which stimulate movement. They are especially suitable for work areas.

6 Yellows are warm, bright colors, ideal for dark spaces to make us feel cozy.

7 Green is essentially linked to life; it reminds us of nature and is perfect for interiors we want to connect with outside.

8 Blues are fresh, harmonious, and easy to combine. They remind us of vast extensions of sea and sky.

9 To make a room more radiant, you can paint the walls in light colors and introduce dashes of color through the furniture, complements, and ornaments.

10 Neutral colors like beiges and browns combine well with other tones and give the room a natural feel.
Color is clearly the most visible linking factor between separate rooms and is ideal for giving consistency to the decoration scheme of a whole house.

Answer 4

When I moved in to my home, all rooms were the same color. It was called sand dollar. I liked it at first, until I painted the room I was going to use as my baby's nursery. I based that color choice off of the furniture and decor I had planned to get and ended up doing a color called light sage. I loved it! I then realized how much better a room could look with some color and I am now working on the rest of the house. I based my choices off of things I already owned (working on a budget and couldn't completely redecorate). I ended up with stoney creek for my living room and hallway and weeping willow for my kitchen/dining area. These are all Olympic paint colors that you can get at Lowes. I also based my choices on colors that other people might find pleasing so that when they come to look at my house when I'm ready to move, they will not be turned off by my decorating choices. My advice would be to look at what you already have and will be using in that room. Look at magazine photos for inspiration and bring home lots of paint chips! The colors will look different in your home than the do in the store because of lighting difference. Tape a few choices up on the wall and leave them up for a few days. You'll be able to see the chips in different times of day which will also make the shade vary. Happy painting!

Answer 5

I really like your ideas. I also love those colors and wanted to do my kitchen in a terracotta, but everything I tried looked either too pink, too orange or just too ugly. I finally went with a golden yellow called "Newborn" by Sherwin Williams. I like it alot and in some lights it has a peach glow to it. With all the colors in your couch you can either chose one for plain draperies or chose a pattern like a stripe, brown and gold or burgandy. Keep them plain in design, no fluff or fancy valances. I think window treatments should be simple. The pizazz in the room can come from art, flowers, area rugs etc. but the windows should be understated and just blend. Good luck in your new home.

Answer 6

I have exactly these colors in my home, I used 2 shades of grey-green for the livingroom & hall. My kitchen is open to the livingroom & I used a very soft peach for the walls ...my cabinets are all the color of a clay pot & my countertops are charcoal. All of my furniture is oak & my accents (lighting,etc.) are black.
I used a sand or taupe color for drapery in the livingroom & a black /white pattern for the kitchen.
It looks awesome....go with your instincts, you won't regret it.
If still in doubt try( behr.com colorsmart ) a great online tool to check out colors.

Answer 7

I would use a deep red or burgandy It is warm and cozy for the kitchen and is now being used often in new homes. It will complement the other colors you have mentioned and I think you will find it quite striking.

Answer 8

Hard to say- I would conside a darker green that contrast with the sage, being that its all open area-

Answer 9

I have similar coloring in my home. How about a taupey/brown.
I used weimaraner by Martha Stuart.

Answer 10

Salmon?