my room is 12 x 10. what would make it look larger? one color on all walls or half & half? Should Iuse soft colours or bold colours? I'd really like to see cranberry...would this be to dark? thanks for any advise
2007-02-28 18:14:01 · 7 answers · asked by Kutzie 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Decorating & Remodeling
Cranberry would be a really nice color. You don't need to be afraid of the room looking small, just call it cozy instead. If you keep the traffic patterns open and don't overdo it on the furniture, then it will not be claustrophobic...when the function of the room is impaired, then you start to feel cramped in.
Other than cranberry, I really think an equally deep shade of any color would be beautiful...you could go with a sapphire, pumpkin, chocolate brown, gold, mossy green...it would be lovely. You could use different colors above and below a chair rail. You could trim out molding in another deep color.
If you decide to use lighter colors on the wall, you could use cranberry on the windows and table linens or any other accent pieces in the room.
2007-02-28 19:04:00 · answer #1 · answered by musicimprovedme 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cranberry is such a classy color and will look GREAT in your dining room. For a small room such as yours I would say paint from the bottom up to 3 feet (36 inches) in your dark cranberry. Then either use a chair rail painted bright white or a matching border. For the top half of your wall paint a light, light, light shade of cranberry...almost white with a tint of cranberry. Make sure your baseboards, window frames & sills and doors are all freshly painted bright white. It will be classy and stunning!
Another way you could get away with it because your room is small is to paint 3 walls a light, soft cranberry and one wall...your main focus wall the dark cranberry. Like if you have a wall with a window or windows on it...paint that wall the dark cranberry. That was very popular many years ago and is coming back in style again. It's also very classy looking.
No matter how you do it, keep your curtains light with just a bit of cranberry in the pattern.
2007-02-28 18:45:49 · answer #2 · answered by Riviera_ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw on the Today Show that dark colors make a room look smaller. They suggested some color rather that white. What about a lighter cranberry? It would look good with a white ceiling. The darker color on all 5 walls would really close you in.
2007-02-28 18:34:12 · answer #3 · answered by Barbra 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe a soft light hue of cranberry and then add a cranberry border. dark colors seem to make things appear smaller i think
2007-02-28 18:32:54 · answer #4 · answered by shelly92555 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the majority of the area, I would suggest Swiss Coffee (barely off white) and trim it in your favorite cranberry or accent color. But add some mirrors to make it look bigger, brighter and open it up
2007-02-28 18:59:08 · answer #5 · answered by hebb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a friend that painted her kitchen cranberry and white.....white on bottom and cranberry on the top with a wood trim painted white as well at the intersection of the cranberry/white. it looks awesome. GO FOR IT!
2007-02-28 18:37:27 · answer #6 · answered by D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use a dark color on the wall that you see when you first walk into the room and on the rest use a relatively light color. Do what ever you want though it's only paint and it only matters what you think!!! :)
2007-02-28 18:55:37 · answer #7 · answered by th1despina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋