Open Floor Plan Colors

17 years ago

Hello,

We have an open floor plan Kitchen/Breakfast nook/Family Room.

We have been in the house two years and these rooms are still the builder grade off white. It's time for a change.

Now the hard part. There is no wall separation between the kitchen/breakfast nook and the family room. We would like two different colors for the kitchen and family room, but don't think that is possible without a weird looking transition. So, we are thinking about a single color with a couple accent walls.

Here is the floor plan with the walls highlighted in three colors. How would you paint it? We were thinking all of the parallel walls one color (i.e., the yellow in the pic). Then all of the other parallel walls another color (i.e., the red OR the brown/gray). We are pretty clueless, so any recommendations would be great!

We have a light brown/beige microfiber sectional and recliner. Maple cabinets, dark granite counter tops, beige tile in kitchen, beige/taupe carpet in family room.

Thoughts?

Note: the big yellow wall on the bottom of the floor plan has a double door in the middle of it. So, it's not really a single large wall.

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Comments (5)

luckygal
17 years ago
What I would do if this were my home is to change the color at the corner between the breakfast and the family areas and on the opposite wall at the door. Those are both logical "breaks" in the space. This makes the family room area a different color from the kitchen/breakfast. I would use similar colors tho, perhaps a darker tone in the family area.
terps02
Original Author
17 years ago
I agree there is a logical break in the spaces at the top of the image. But there is no logical break in the wall on the bottom of the image. There is a door in the middle of the breakfast area, but it isn't the break we are looking for.

Thanks for the idea!
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Oakley
17 years ago
My son has a similar floor plan. The kitchen and breakfast nook is painted a deep red, and the great room is painted a very pale cream/yellow. There's a place where the yellow meets the red and it's beautiful!
yborgal
17 years ago
It seems as though there is a direct line between the cabinets at the end of the kitchen/breakfast room wall and the door across the room. Could you add a strip of molding to the cabinet wall to give a definitive break to the colors? That way your kitchen would have its own color different from the breakfast room/family room area.

Or this is rather unorthodox, but I've seen a color transition accomplished by painting alternating color blocks on a long wall as one room becomes another room.

But you could just paint the kitchen and breakfast room one color. Then at the breakfast room corner begin a FR color that wraps around past the door on the opposite wall.

If you're looking for an actual cutoff point I think your only division spot would be to separate the kitchen from the other spaces. I'm not a big fan of accent walls; I find them distracting though there are others who don't mind them at all.
jerseygirl_1
17 years ago
I have an open floor plan. We went with the same color for the Kitchen, Breakfast Room, and FR. I would recommend using an accent color for a little drama on the wall where the fireplace is since you can see it from all the rooms.