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Side-by-side color on a long wall: interesting joins?

13 years ago
I have a long room that is kitchen at one end, dining area in the middle, and three doorways at the other end. I am curious whether there are interesting things to do where the two colors would meet if the kitchen were a different color from the rest. For example, one could have a vertical zigzag or a continuous squiggle from moulding to baseboard; the left could be a limey green and the right could be a linen color. But that would look a little goofy. Are there any other ideas how to do this?

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  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 13 years ago
    Is the rest of the room your living area? Do you have fabrics which need to be incorporated into your scheme?

    If you ceiling is one continuous space, I would choose a beautiful color for the ceiling, a soft blue, for instance. Paint all your wood work a shiny black, one color on the walls....
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    For your accents, I would frame wallpaper to highlight one of the areas.
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  • 13 years ago
    Judyg, you always have the best photo suggestions! What are your tips for searching on Houzz?!?
  • 13 years ago
    Thanks for the ideas. I was not very clear on my question. I want to put two paint colors side-by-side, then provide a small transition area where the two colors might be interweaved. What kind of patterns would look good?
  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 13 years ago
    Is this what you have in mind? That is what I do, too, except I thought you could connect the colors with a coordinating strip of wallpaper, ceiling to floor and "framed". In this picture, the colors simply abut each other, but the art work ties it all together.
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    For this picture I typed in your request simplified "different colors on walls" and hit photos.
  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 13 years ago
    How about something like this to join colors? Whether a stripe of a squiggle or blocks...you use all the colors in the room, plus your woodwork color, and the solid meets that pattern.
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    For instance the stripe could be the dining area, the kitchen the blue and the other end the brown...but in your color choices, of course.


    Or each area is a solid and you simply connect them this way...easy enough with painters tape.
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  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 13 years ago
    This is fun...a stripe of color that is not in the room at all, and something like these coasters glued to the wall.
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    Or a rug runner hung on the wall. That would be a great way to delineate the dining room.
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  • 13 years ago
    Lastly, how about floor to ceiling decals?
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    shirleync thanked elcieg
  • 13 years ago
    I don't have a rug yet
  • 13 years ago
    What about a sideways ombré or maybe a few floor to ceiling vertical stripes that works you into the new color
    shirleync thanked Melanie Steinkuhler-Burns
  • 13 years ago
    I like JudyG's pic but you should have a feature that causes the different paint colors to look like it's okay for them to change. You could add a column--floor to ceiling (not a Grecian or Roman) but plain squared box that would give a visual definition to the dining area vs the kitchen area.
    shirleync thanked leelee
  • 13 years ago
    Thanks everyone; these are great ideas. Did not know some of these products existed. leelee, I take it you are thinking like those partial columns on the sides of exterior doorways (eg federal style)?