Dining room color repaint

8 years ago

last modified: 8 years ago

My husband and I bought this 1880 farmhouse 2 weeks ago and are doing major renovations, so please excuse the messes! My question is about the dining room paint color. I painted it the pale gray shown, and I don’t like that or the BM Revere Pewter I tested on the drywall by the new back door. I’ve already repainted the kitchen that the dining adjoins, so I don’t want to change that. I also like the blue we put in the living room. I just don’t know how to make the dining room feel more warm and cozy when it’s in between the 2 cool colored rooms (yes, I put myself in this predicament!). My husband is completely opposed to continuing the blue from the LR in there. He loves red so I’m considering red accents and the same color from the kitchen into the DR if it wouldn’t end up too dark. my other thought would be forget the red and do BM silver sage with neutral accents. The wall of windows in the DR is south facing, the back door to the west. We will be installing new light fixtures. TIA!

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Flo Mangan

8 years ago

When you paint samples on existing walls you cannot effectively evaluate colors. Your perception is always thrown off. Get some boards and paint two coats onto the boards so you can move them around a see how they look in different lights at different times of day and night.

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Flo Mangan
8 years ago
I see you have what looks like a gray rug in living room how about a warm gray. That would tie the two rooms together and not be a jarring 3rd color. Let me make a couple recommendations. Bbl
Liz
Original Author
8 years ago
It is a gray rug in the living room. The kitchen is actually more gray than it looks in the picture, which makes the slight blue undertone look very blhe. Recommendations would be great! I thought Revere Pewter was going to be the perfect warm gray but I’m not liking it at all
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Liz
Original Author
8 years ago

Would either of these work even though the adjoining rooms are cool tones? The red curtains are ones I’m considering, but not 100% attached to
Liz
Original Author
8 years ago
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Flo Mangan
8 years ago
First, your lighting looks weak? Have you tried SW Agreeable Gray? Or SW Worldly Gray? Those colors both look too gold and too dark.
Liz
Original Author
8 years ago
The lighting is weak, and we have a new ceiling fan to put up. We just haven’t gotten to it yet because this house had So many other things it needed first. There isn’t a Sherwin Williams retailer near us so any of these color names I see or hear, I have to try to get close to in a different brand
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Flo Mangan
8 years ago
Ok. I can get you other close colors. I just have to get my Color Analyst tools out to develop ideas. What paint brand do you use?
Liz
Original Author
8 years ago
My local retailers carry Easy Care and Medallion. I do like Worldly Gray! It’s just a tiny bit too pale and subtle for my taste. I’ve heard that colors can be darkened Slightly when they are mixed. Would you recommend that? Maybe just 25% would help?
Liz
Original Author
8 years ago
My husband could also get Benjamin Moore since he passes a retailer on his trip to work
partim
8 years ago
Go with a green color that looks good with the blue. (Although I would continue the blue throughout, myself.)
Liz
Original Author
8 years ago
My original plan was to do navy and a few green accents in the kitchen and dining room, but my husband wanted to keep our red decorations. Maybe I’ll go with my plan and ask for forgiveness later :). Flo- I did find a SW retailer that we could stop at!