You can keep the rooms separate colors, just do NOT have one wall be painted two colors like you currently have! That current wall color should be completely yellow all the way to the corner. Corners are good places to change colors, random places on a wall are not.

I agree, Amanda, that the wall needs to be one color but I also don't like the yellow intruding into the kitchen. So I would consider painting both spaces one color. Love the backslash! Very cheerful.

Maybe add a flat application like this picture to 'separate' rooms? Or add your ceiling application on the kitchen wall from floor to ceiling and keep your kitchen color. Trying to think out of the box!

Thank you both for your feed back. Amanda, I'm not sure exactly what you are meaning by "one wall painted 2 colors". Do you mean where the living room and kitchen meet off the entry hall? If so, that's another problem I've dealt with for 38 years in this place :) The kitchen wall comes right off the entry and with those pitched ceilings, its so messed up where to break the line. It's not an equal break.

Yes, that's what she means, the point where the two colors meet. That's what my suggestions were trying to get around. smile.

I suggest painting both rooms the same colour, a cool neutral. See pic below. Then bring in more colour with accessories, art and decor items. Your chair looks to have some nice coral in it, which pairs well with your sea glass backsplash colour. I would introduce some coral to the kitchen, and add some of the seaglass colour to LR, maybe with pillows.
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I also think your sofa looks squished in its current position. Could it be moved facing FP?

Thank you MarleneM. I like that wall color alot (SW Shogi White) Good point on bringing in color with accessories. My house is super small...1036 sf. The sofa (and matching love seat) are way too big for the tiny space. The room is too small to configure with anything facing the FP. Its still arranged in the "Christmas Mode", where the too big sofa is on the too small wall, and the love seat is on the "tree wall". My eyes are always bigger than the room when it comes to furniture. (gotta work on that!) It will hopefully be leaving us at some point :)

I'd use one color and I like the idea of a lighter version of the glass tiles in the backsplash. I'd also choose a bit more of a gray blue/green than that tile color because, although I love that color in your backsplash, I think it would end up looking a bit too pastel for the walls. SW sea salt and comfort gray come to mind. Also, maybe Ben moore glass slipper.

Painting all the walls one light colour will help make your space feel larger too. When you change the flooring to be the same throughout, you will get the same effect. The colours Ann suggested are very nice colours too. I really like what you've done with the kitchen so far.

I like what you've done with the kitchen too! I also like the fabric on the living room chair:)

That chair was a display from World Market a few years ago. It originally was a white-ish color with no personality. I've never covered anything before, but somehow muddled through covering this chair. I loved the colors in the fabric :)

Making the place look a little larger would be great. I looked at the mentioned colors, and like them all. Can't wait to get some samples painted on the walls. :) The kitchen project started a few years ago when my son suggested I change out the brass hardware on the then oak cabs. Well, you know how projects snowball! Ended up with the granite and back splash, then painted the cabs white. It never ends, does it? :)

Paint all rooms the same. So they flow together. I like the soft grays. But get samples and put on your walls before buying.

Ok, I just came home with samples and have splotch painted practically every wall in living room/kitchen and 2 halls. I got some SW Sea Salt and had samples mixed in full and 50% strength. It's not dry yet, but Ican't wait to see what the day to nite lighting does. So far tho, Iike both shades. Looks like the 50% one is drying to more of the light color in the glass back splash. Wonder if I should do the halls a lighter shade of whatever color I go with??

Over the weekend, we scraped off the popcorn off of the entry and regular hall. What a mess! Now we're going to do a skim coat of mud and figure out a ceiling paint. And...we're stuck now on the living room/kitchen ceiling where we wanted to do wood plank. Apparently long boards could sag and sheets of bead board may too. Grrrr....(is the popcorn so bad?? lol) So now we may over lay with sheet rock and go that route. I really want planks tho. Has anyone used Armstrong ceiling planks? Lowe's has a display and it's a special order, but pretty pricy. There's another Armstrong option similar, but from what I can tell, it looks a little cheesy. Ceiling ideas anyone? :)

Looking forward to seeing your paint samples!

Ok, I don't know why when I rotate these, they don't rotate here...the top is upside down, the middle should be rotated to the right, and the bottom is ok.

Anyhow, the darker color is SW Sea Salt full strength. The lighter is the same color only 50%. It's nuts how DIFFERENT these look on different walls of my house at various times of the day! What do you guys think? And, how do the color strips work? Is it the same color only light-to-dark versions? I wonder the % of lighter or darker each color is.

I think I like full strength but in the last pic, I like them both.

I like them both too. Another suggestion often mentioned here on HOUZZ is to paint a sample on a piece of white posterboard, or drywall, or whatever you have around, and leave a 2" white border all around. This enables you to see the true colour without your existing wall colour influencing it.

Hi! Just an update.....I had Sea Salt mixed at 75% yesterday and I'm looking at all 3 now (full strength, 75% and 50%) in different light and walls. Also had a sample of Comfort Gray mixed at 75% and I think it would be too dark still. So now I'm waiting for the second coat of the 75% Sea Salt to dry so I can compare. I am officially losing my mind! :)

Plus, we are trying to figure out how to cover the popcorn in the living room and kitchen. ( Another head banger!) I don't have alot of $ to spend on this, but really can't do the floors til the ceiling and walls are done either. We have entertained bead board ceilings, but we want to go directly over the popcorn. (no more scraping it off...I still can't breath) So looks like the options are these packages of 6"x8' bead board "planks", or else 4'x8' bead board sheets. With the pitched roof, it's going to be a nightmare doing it ourselves. Plus, I'm not sure I want that look forever. Another option is doing lite drywall over and skim coat mud, and then paint. I'm almost ready to just repaint the popcorn and call it a day!!

This is all the Sea Salt in various strengths....(the bottom right is Comfort Gray 75% and I don't think it's an option) Left to right...SS 50%, SS 75%, SS 100%. Probably hard to even see much.

Price out ceiling options! Removal, drywall and board - by someone else! Then consider your options! Don't give up!

Oh, and I picked up chips of SW Silverpointe and SW Passive. Both look grayer to me, but I kinda like those too. Not as green/blue/gray as Sea Salt I guess.

Your chair looks great as said with current paint behind it. I don't picture very grey with it [though with kitchen it would look nice].

What besides your chair are you blending in with new paint?

Maybe the sea salt 75% is a nice compromise of your samples. I agree about comfort gray being too dark.

Everdebz, good point about the chair. The only other thing I would be trying to blend in is that taupe sofa and love seat. At least for the time being. It may look kinda mish mashy til I can get some new furniture. I could always recover the chair.

I think the chair (which I love) will look great with sea salt paint behind it.

If you can stand the mess, popcorn ceilings can simply be scraped off. Just spray it down with water and scrape away. If your house was built when they used lead paint you will need to take more care, but otherwise it is simple and messy. Then just prime and paint.

Carol, there's a good chance we will do just that. You don't need to mud it before prime and paint? Yeah, we had the pleasure of scraping last weekend. Mess is an under statement! I thought I cleaned it out of the linen closet but it keep reappearing!

I would like to add color to my interior main floor. Would it be a bad idea to paint the interior doors a different color then the walls?

Jess, you posted in the middle of someone else's dilemma. Just start a new one and you'll get lots of suggestions.

Yes, nailgal, you will probably want to mud to give the ceiling some texture and hide the seams. But I found that was even easier than scraping the popcorn off, and LOTS less messy. I found several YouTube videos showing how to do it.