Paint Selection and Color Flow

10 years ago

Hi all!

My contractor is about to start painting the second floor of our 1905 house that is being renovated. Boy, picking colors is hard!

Here's what I've come up with:

Flooring in the halls and bedrooms will be 4" red oak stained medium brown with white trim:

The master suite will be in blues. I'm planning to get a beige and blue Persian rug and upholstered bed in beige.

The master bathroom will be Carrara floors with white subway. I want to get this kind of vibe:

The hall bath will be white tile with black accents similar to this:

The hallway and stairs are a beige color that will continue from the first floor. The first floor (not shown) will be open. I'm planning to use a red and blue Persian rug with beige walls and upholstered furniture.

I just continued the same beige color up the stairs and hallway on the second floor because I wasn't sure if I should transition or how to do it.

So, that's what I'm thinking in terms of color. What do you all think?

Is it too beige? I like the current gray trend but I'm not sure if I could live with it. I like warmer colors and I don't think a lot of white walls and upholstery would work with young kids.
Do the colors flow or clash?
Are the colors too dark or too light? Should they be more grayed down?
Will the Master Bedroom be too dark.
I'm a bit lost on the kids room and just picked pink for a girl and blue for a boy. My daughter is only 1. My son is almost 4 and really likes Cars, Transformers, Batman, etc. He'll probably end up with a lot of that kind of action hero stuff in his room, and I'm not really sure how it will look with the blue color. I don't really want to pick a bright primary color, maybe it should be more neutral?
Should I pick a different color for the second floor hall than what I have for the open first floor?

I'd really appreciate any and all feedback!

Thanks!

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Rory (Zone 6b)
10 years ago
I think the colors look wonderful together and your inspirations are lovely. I have had that last picture saved in my Houzz idea book for at least a year - I love it!
Jane
10 years ago
I think you are close. I would go to a paint consultant to pick the final colors. If it were me, I'd go lighter on the beige, pink and gold. But I like light and cool colors. Be really careful on the pink and gold - those can get tricky and have a strong effect on how you feel and they can remind you of things....

Paint colors will intensify with lighting and reflection from adjacent walls. That is where a paint consultant can help - they know which colors people tend to be happier with and how the colors behave in different lighting. When you have picked all the colors, you can fan out the paint samples and see how well they all work together throughout the home. You can have quite a rainbow of colors and they all can still work together. It has more to do with saturation and lightness than hue sometimes.

Also you can pick different but similar colors for different walls. My open space is painted greige on some walls and ivory (yellow tone) on others, but sometimes both of those colors look like the same color. I did this because I liked the contrast of the greige with the white (it's darker) but I didn't want to be surrounded by gray. The yellow tone makes me happy. So I picked which wall would have which color, based how I I lived in the rooms and what other surfaces were next to the paint.
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junco East Georgia zone 8a
10 years ago
I really like all your selections but I agree with Jane that you need to be careful about what the colors will look like in your actual home with your light, etc.

The walls in your master bath inspiration picture look more like one of the BM Healing Aloe type colors--you might consider one of those. It could still be very nice with the darker blue, which I like a lot but again you need to test it in your space.