Help me pick colors for entire house?

Question

the floor is white polished porcelain
cabinets are white lacquer
help me pick colors for various rooms i.e. kitchen, dining room, master bedroom, bedroom..

Answer 1

I would start with Sherwin Williams' "oyster bar" in the living room & hallways, with "muddled basil" for any trim or accents.

Then carry that "muddled basil" onto the dining room walls, with trim/accents in "oak creek".

In the kitchen, I would do "Oak Creek."

"Serious Gray" in the family bathroom.

"Chatroom" with "mink" trim/accents in the master bedroom. If there is a bathroom in the master suite, then paint that predominately "mink" with "chatroom" accents.

"Mega Greige" for Bedroom #2. And if there is a third bedroom, go bold with "French Roast."

All of these colors will coordinate & create an even flow from one room into the next.

Answer 2

Hi. What colors do you like?
Go to any home store or paint store and bring home samples of colors (on the little cardboards). Then tape them to the walls. Sit back for a few days and see which colors you like. They even have very small sample paints now. You don't need to buy a quart anymore! Once you have decided on a few colors that you like, buy the samples and slap the color up on the wall. Test out different colors until you come up with the one you like!

For your kitchen....I would not go with white. There is too much white now with the floor and the cabinets. Perhaps a pale "sand" color - like on the beach when the beach sand gets wet. I'm not sure. Again, it's your house so pick colors that YOU like. One tip ~ ~ does the dining room adjoin the kitchen - are they almost one room? If so, paint both the kitchen and the dining room THE SAME color. This looks good for continuity. You don't want a yellow kitchen, then a blue dining room right next to (and in view of) the other room. If they are totally separate rooms, then do what you want!

The two bedrooms can be as bold or as neutral as you want. You will want to make sure it looks good with the carpeting, though. If you have hardwood floors....then it's anything.

Good luck!

Answer 3

No one can really pick your colors for you. You need to go to a paint store and pick up paint card samples and bring them home. Hold them up in the daytime and nightime. They will look different. The cards have colors in the same family so you can do variables of the similar colors. It took me a year of trying different palettes before I made the decision in my last house. I chose three similar sage tones for the entire house and it was beautiful. The color was a great neutral that would accent any furnishings and it was a tremendous selling point for the house. Keep in mind that your primary living areas should be in concert with each other to create a flow. You can be a bit more adventuresome if you wish in the bedroom areas.

Answer 4

Will you have a theme per room? My living room and dining room are together. I used mint green walls & same color curtains then added multi colored (mauve, rose, off white & various greens) upper wallpaper boarder. Dining room had theme of seashells including wall decorations, table cloth & center pieces. Living room had big cat theme with black panther, lion, cheetah, jaguar, tigers, etc... for pictures, couch pillows, etc...

These rooms blended but also was 'separated' according to theme. What's yours ? Take if from there.

Answer 5

Here is what I do. Pick a piece of art (a painting, poster, print or photograph) that you like for each room. Use that piece of art to inspire your selection of key complementary colors that you can use in that room. For example, I have a Chagall Poster in my Family room. It has lots of blues and greens, with a splash of red, black and yellow. I painted the walls yellow, picked fabrics that brought out the right shades of blue, and have accessories in red and black. It looks great. Just be careful about room-to-room transitions. I wouldn't want to go from a red room to a green room, for example.