Which color should I paint my dining room?

Question

Let me paint the scene for you:

Our living room, dining room, and kitchen are all in a straight line. You can see all three rooms from any of the 3 rooms because there are large doorways. Our living room is painted sage green. The accent colors are dark red, yellow, and light green. The kitchen (on the furthest end) is painted light yellow on one wall and dark red on another wall. If you are standing in the living room, you see the yellow wall. If you are standing in the kitchen, looking into the dining room, you see the red wall.

Okay...enough information; Which color should I paint the dining room? Should I go a warm color to match the other two rooms, or should I go an earthier color to mix it up. What do you think?

Ps...we have a dark oak stained dining room table.

Answer 1

We had a similar problem and decided to paint the Dining Room using "Spanish White"/ It gives the white a slight cream color, which is very pleasing and offers a good contrast for dark furniture. Get a sample try it in an inconspicuous place .See if you like it.

Answer 2

There are web sites out there, or Lowes or Home Depot might know too, where you take a picture of your dining room, then they upload into a program & keep changing the colors, so you can see with your own dining room photo what it would actually look like.

dashing on a little of this paint & a little of that in places no one sees, will never give you the big picture of what it will ACTUALLy look like when you're finished.

You seem pretty bold with your colors already, can't go wrong with a cream,,, or now that you have yellow, red & sage green, why not start with blue shades?

Answer 3

Since you have a continuous sight line, paint the dining room a lighter sage green than the living room. That way, from one point you see increasingly lighter colors and from the other end you see increasing darker colors. Visually this is a logical progression.
Do pick up the dark red and perhaps yellow gold accents in the dining room, so that your colors flow comfortably from one space to another.

Answer 4

Colored light, furnishing materials, and structural proportions, we can create a home that is welcoming, helpful, and comfortable. Walls are similar to background music: each color tone is like a musical note can create a pleasant-sounding harmony while others grate with each other.

Answer 5

thankyou everyone for the answers.