Need professional help with colour scheme! to paint or not! where to start?
Please Help, I don't know where to start but I know it needs to change. Any ideas would be really appreciated. Thank you
I would like to repaint the walls a new colour but am having a hard time choosing a colour and deciding if I need to paint the kitchen cabinets too. The main floor is very open. We are drowning in blond oak (floors, stairs, fireplace, railings and cabinets).
Colour scheme: I have considered grey, not sure how this will look with all the oak and the creamy beige of the fireplace marble.
I'm open to replacing some window coverings, art work (love www.timpacker.com), rug and upolstered light beige side chair and desk chairs, but the big furniture has to stay
The living room window and patio door face north, on a dull day the room can feel dark.
The kitchen: should I paint the cabinets white? I am concerned the floor tiles will look dingy against white cabinets esp as the grout is a grey colour. ? (I've considered dark cabinets but I think we have way too much brown and wood going on.)
The pillars are load bearing and I would like to change them to something more modern.
Window treatments, leave or change?: We need some privacy during the day as the houses are so close together we look into each others windows.
The living room and dining windows are covered with 2" white horizontal blinds. The window above the desk is covered with a 2" brown wood horizontal blind and the patio door is covered with a white vertical blind.
The dining window is off center to the coffered ceiling and the light fixture.
There is no space between the living room window and the fireplace. there is approx 5" of bulk head above the patio door so any drapes must be hung at door height.
Fireplace: ideas to make it less obtrusive.
Thanks again.
I would like to repaint the walls a new colour but am having a hard time choosing a colour and deciding if I need to paint the kitchen cabinets too. The main floor is very open. We are drowning in blond oak (floors, stairs, fireplace, railings and cabinets).
Colour scheme: I have considered grey, not sure how this will look with all the oak and the creamy beige of the fireplace marble.
I'm open to replacing some window coverings, art work (love www.timpacker.com), rug and upolstered light beige side chair and desk chairs, but the big furniture has to stay
The living room window and patio door face north, on a dull day the room can feel dark.
The kitchen: should I paint the cabinets white? I am concerned the floor tiles will look dingy against white cabinets esp as the grout is a grey colour. ? (I've considered dark cabinets but I think we have way too much brown and wood going on.)
The pillars are load bearing and I would like to change them to something more modern.
Window treatments, leave or change?: We need some privacy during the day as the houses are so close together we look into each others windows.
The living room and dining windows are covered with 2" white horizontal blinds. The window above the desk is covered with a 2" brown wood horizontal blind and the patio door is covered with a white vertical blind.
The dining window is off center to the coffered ceiling and the light fixture.
There is no space between the living room window and the fireplace. there is approx 5" of bulk head above the patio door so any drapes must be hung at door height.
Fireplace: ideas to make it less obtrusive.
Thanks again.
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This is going to make it all feel so much bigger.
Some great color options are the warm grays from Sherwin Williams.
Here is a great example of Repose Gray:
Good luck
Love the greys in the photos. would you paint the kitchen cabinets white?
A shade lighter gives that monochromatic look , I'm away from my desk now so I can't send a pic
Tomorrow I will
Have a good nite
I would paint parts of the ceiling and soffits to emphasize it's geometry with varying shades of the same color. Then I would select one wall in each room to be an accent wall - the nicest looking walls that can help balance the space and add intrigue. Since the fireplace is the focal point you may consider putting an accent to an adjacent wall so that there is something else to look at. For instance, the desk / window wall doesn't really need color, but the soffit above could use some to make the wall look longer. The space above the kitchen cabinets should be painted, but under the cabinets needs a proper back-splash (i'm in the process of redesigning a similar kitchen space right now). At the very least, paint the pillar half-wall white to reduce emphasis on the air vents.
Yes, light gray would be a good choice, but the right shade is critical when pairing against light colored woods. Not all grays will look good, and swatches can be deceiving, especially if you are using dimmers on your lights (which I hope you are).
If I could offer any advice it would be this. Don't make a decision until you prime the walls back to white. Step back and sleep on it for a few days, then decide. Your perspective will change at least somewhat, and your vision will become clearer. Then you'll be able to attack the room with confidence, telling it what YOU want, instead of being bossed around by the walls.
Sherwin Williams can match Behr colors in a non-VOC version which offers odor free painting and no toxic off-gassing.
http://www.blindsdirectcanada.com/drapery-toronto/panels/grommet-drapery.html
here are two paint samples..... the vaulted room has the same color on both the walls and the ceiling. It's true. The other shot shows ceilings 2 shades lighter. It's true. Paint is a chameleon; it comes down to light.
Try samples of the same color on wall and ceiling and then try a lighter shade on the ceiling, evaluate it during different times of the day, then decide which is best for your space.