Advice on accent wall color...?

Question

In our townhome the floor plan is very open and I am looking to add some color to our living room/dining room/kitchen. I plan on painting the walls a creamy taupe color and our couch is sage green and so is our curtains in the living room. I am looking for a good accent wall color, I was thinking maybe a nice deep red on the wall of the windows with the sage green curtains and then across the room in the dining room maybe a light sage green on one wall. Would this look bad? If anyone thinks this would looks bad, suggestions would be great.

Answer 1

If the curtains in dining room are same coloras curtains in LR,
don't paint wall same color as curtains.
Why not paint the window wall in DR and window wall in LR the same accent color, especially if they are facing.
With sage green and taupe, also consider -
dusty rose
peach
yellow
smoke blue
lavender
rust
caramel
or, use a color from one of the accessories you already have.

Answer 2

I'd get a paint color strip with turquoise at one end, and paint the walls the pale color at the other end of the strip. Then have turquoise and orange in bedding and accessories. This will have your eye jumping from color pop to color pop, which is bright and lively without smacking you in the face. If you wanted, you could have some light (not neon) green items, and pull out the green and put away the orange items, for a change of pace without a big investment. Or have a set of warm yellow and orange and a set of cool blue and green for different seasons. You could use any two of those colors at a time and be a quick-change artist with your room's decor. To do it for less money, have very soft, pale bedding and the bright colors in decorative pillows (or pillow sheets), scarves, prints, ribbons tying back your (white) curtains, different color ribbons to tie around lamp shades, and cheap straw hats hung on the wall.

Answer 3

I think red accent walls have been done too much. Red is a really hard color to paint with. It takes many coats, and even then doesn't look that great. If you must do an accent wall, why not use the same color as the rest of the room, only two shades darker?

Answer 4

i would use the cream toupe color 2 or 3 shades darker for your accent color

Answer 5

It all depends on what shade of red your talking about. I would go with a Burgundy or you might even go with a deep rust

Answer 6

sand
dusky purple
pale burnt orange