Anyone?

So you have blue curtains, gold rug and pink/red fireplace? The only colours the carpet and floor share are green blue and warm black as far as I can see. You have a funny off/liverish pinky purple which may match the fireplace? But I can’t see that going with the curtains. Gold, brown or blue green seem like the only reasonable wall colour choices, buti am having a hard time picturing it.

Do the rug and curtains look good together in real life?

Thank you both for your replies!

J Williams, the Curtain fabric is actually a cut velvet with green and blue detailing on a brown base. It is called "Pawnee Seafoam" By Kasmir. I think gold might work but not sure. Blue and green would with the fabric, but we are not sure about with the rest off the room.

Flo, I am attaching more pictures now. As you can see, its a decent sized room with fairly elaborate woodwork. There is also a wall of mirrors (tinted pink??) that are original to the house which is from 1906. As of right now there is very little furniture, but there will be two comfy English-arm chairs on either side of the fireplace (when we can decide on colors!)

Opposite the fireplace is an antique linen press that we have a TV in. The mismatched chairs on either side are not staying but are space fillers for now.

Please excuse the mess and the ridiculous lamps everywhere -- just trying to get enough light in!

Apple Pie -- Thats what I'm trying to figure out!

Here is another view of the fireplace wall and the fireplace itself. The current color is Manchester Tan by BM

What a gorgeous room. This calls for saturated color for sure. Here are some initial ideas.

I lean to a coral color especially for office. But lots of ways to go. Any thoughts?

As I expected, a very traditional room, could see some old fashioned strong colours with the rug.

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https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-ca/colour-overview/find-your-colour/colour/710/kensington-green?color=710&source=%2Fen-ca%2Fcolour-overview%2Ffind-your-colour%2Fcolour-families%2Fblu%2Fblue

https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-ca/colour-overview/find-your-colour/colour/csp-695/antique-glass?color=CSP-695&source=%2Fen-ca%2Fcolour-overview%2Ffind-your-colour%2Fcolour-families%2Fblu%2Fblue

Flo, Thank you for the suggestions. The colors you have picked out are lovely, but may be a bit bold for our tastes. That being said, we were originally planning on going with a very rich, darker color, but we were talked out of it because the room faces north and therefore does not get the best natural light. However, I do rather like the blue and the tan! Do you happen to have the name on the tan color?

J Williams, Thank you for the suggestions! I noticed that many of the colors you chose had strong orange tones to them. I see how this works beautifully with the rug, but do you think it will clash with the curtain fabric?

While I am asking questions about paint, what do you guys think about painting the woodwork and ceiling? When we had planned to paint the walls significantly darker, we were also think of darkening the woodwork and ceiling, but now we cannot decide if it would be a good idea.

It is Valspar

LenoxTan would work beautifully for your trim but select your wall color first. You could do a buttery yellow too. Yellows are bright and cheerful for northern exposure rooms.

If we did Lenox tan for the trim, would you go darker or lighter for the wall color? The next color in the family I believe is called Tyler Taupe?

But any color needs to be sampled in your room and in your light. Internet photos are not real. You need more time to get this right. This feels like a special house with special needs. Don’t settle. It can be spectacular!

Btw you will have plenty of light if you properly “light” your room. In office, task lighting at desk and computers as well as table lamps, floor lamps and your amazing chandelier will provide all kinds of light.

And we are trying to stay away from yellow, only as the hallways and front hall are yellow, and there is already quite a bit of it in the house. It does make for a beautiful backdrop however!

I am not sure I want to call off the painting tomorrow, as I cannot STAND how the rug matches with the current wall color. Perhaps I should go with Lenox tan for now and change it later if need be?

If you use the rug and curtains together, you'll get a "collected" look, as if you'd inherited the rug and chose the curtains before the rug arrived. If you choose a rug that has stronger colors and a different size pattern that coordinates better with the curtains, it will look like you chose the items to complement each other and fit the room. In other words, the rug doesn't go with the curtains.

Yes I don't think lighting will be a problem, I just brought the lamps in to brighten it up while looking at paint colors. The chandelier is just awesome isn't it? It's been sitting in a crate for the last 10 years waiting for the right spot and when we moved, it just seemed the perfect spot for it!

Apple pie, we actually chose the rug because it looked like it would perfectly match the curtains (believe it or not!) Truly amazing how lighting affects colors! We have had a few other rugs in this space and none of them seemed to work quite right. The fabric is quite the difficult one to match!

The green/berry rug in this picture was one we had used in our other house. The rug is quite lovely, but it felt too informal and tribal in comparison with the room itself and the furniture, all of which seemed far more refined. Once again, excuse the mess (This room has been a bit of dumping ground for random stuff since we moved in)

At this point considering the overall expense of the rug and the fabric (and the fact that I cannot really return either), I would rather not ditch either of them. The curtains are far enough away from the rug that I think it can work.

Tyler Taupe is beautiful color. I love your amazing home. I would lean to brownish coral notes because it works with rug and blues/greens can be repeated in your room in accessories to create cohesive room. That mirror is going to impact any color you put on walls.

The green blue floral in the curtain echoes a similar pattern and colour in the rug.

I wonder what greenish khaki would look like...

Let me look some more and see what I can come up with.

My gut instinct is to match the background color of the curtains. But I have no clue what color for trim in that case.

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https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-ca/colour-overview/find-your-colour/colour/hc-118/sherwood-green?source=%2Fen-ca%2Fcolour-overview%2Ffind-your-colour%2Fcolour-families%2Fgre%2Fgreen&color=HC-118

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Joe. Since your drapery is a done deal, I would work with that and figure out rug later. I looked up the fabric and assuming you are getting a pinch pleat style drape, the whole pattern will rarely show. So I am going to try to simulate the drape for you and then see where to take the wall color. Bbl

To update, I *think* we decided on the color Saddle Tan, which seems to complement the rug nicely and the fireplace. Its not a perfect match with the curtains, but we are going to see if they can be used in another room as we are just worried that we will not be able to match them at all. That being said, I am hoping that with the walls painted, the fabric will make a bit more sense.

I guess we will simply have to wait and see!

Flo, I would love to see a mock up of the curtains! Thanks!

I made this mock up with BM Hillsborough Beige and tried simulating your drapery. I just saw your new post. Let me check that color out.

Here is mock up with BM Saddle Tan. I haven’t done a paint color analysis yet on this color so still assessing. Bbl

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Joe. Here is the DNA of each color you proposed.

As you can see HB Has an LRV (light reflective value) of 43 while ST is 35. So ST will be more saturated and less light reflective. HB has a Hue Angle of 75.6 which puts it in Yellow Red hue family but toward yellow hue family whereas ST has a hue angle of 68.8 which puts it in the Yellow Red Hue family too but in cool segment and more toward red. ST has more Chroma too (C) so more color and graying. I think if these two you will like Saddle Tan better. But, make sure your painter gets this asap because it will probably require a deep base and BM sometimes run short of that base. I wish you had more time because your drapery will be very pretty so hope that works out. Not quite sure how you plan to hang the drapery?? Your window framing is so beautiful, I would suggest doing inside mount Silhouette style shades especially with northern exposure. Hope this is helpful.

Wow, that information is very interesting! I had no idea just how much goes into finding the right paint!

Thank you for the markups as well. Yes, we will be mounting the drapes inside the casing as to not hide the woodwork.

I think we are going to go for Saddle Tan, as it will be warmer and more rich-looking than any of the other things we have looked at. It matches the new rug perfectly as well.

After much deliberation we may have to scrap the curtains.... after the walls are painted to match the rug, we will compare again with the fabric and see if it works out. Fingers crossed!

Thank you for all the input! I will make sure to update!

Great. I think you have a good plan.

I think it has to the potential to look very nice, the sea foam in the curtain may play off the warmth of the wall very nicely. Peachy orange has traditionally been paired with blue green, and warm browns with cool blues.

You have a stunning home. I am rooting for the Saddle Tan, and rooting for everything to look wonderful in place. Keep us posted,

10 months later, and I realized I never updated! The room is basically finished, we are just looking for some beautiful sconces for either side of the main window. We ended up painting the walls Shelburne buff from the Historic collection! I don't entirely remember how we ended up choosing it, but I think it works well. We also painted the trim two different shades to remove some of the starkness between the wall color and the white woodwork. The crown, baseboard and doors are done with a 50/50 mixture of Shelburne buff and Navajo white and the curved moldings around the windows and niche are 75/25 mix of the same. We ended up using the same rug, but gave up on the curtain fabric and were able to reuse some curtains we had in our old home. They were recut, a valance was made and new trim was added. They show up a little pink in the pictures, but in real life they are nearly the same color as the wall. I think it all came out pretty good! Thank you all for your help!!