What color to paint wall next to chair rail?
We are finally paining our DR which has been white for the past 5 years! We did a brown below the chair rail, and beige w/ pinkish hue above the chair rail. The chair rail and other trims will be white (not done yet). Our chair rail ends before it reaches the end of the wall. So we need to figure out what color to paint that part of the wall. My husband is thinking we should do the white trim color on the wall that small section of wall parallel to the chair rail between the brown and beige. I think that will look strange. What is done in a case like this?
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First of all, in the first photo where the chair rail stops short of the right corner, I would paint the upper wall colour down to meet the dark lower wall colour.
In the second photo, I would paint the projecting (two-inch?) wall the colour of the upper wall. I'm assuming this is the doorway to the room?
Basically, I would use the light colour of the upper wall as a "neutral" in the room, so it goes into the "awkward" places, while the dark colour is only neatly contained in rectangular (non-wandering) sections. The strong contrast of the dark colour will make any odd shape jump out at you, not in a good way.