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feyleah

Blue Rooms

12 years ago
I have decided I love the color blue. I painted my living room blue, and I'm about to paint my dining room the same blue (alread bought the Ben Moore paint). This is a long ranch house, kitchen, then dining, then living room. All the rooms face the north, although the living room has some southern windows.
Here's my question...It may be too much blue (or maybe not). I'd LOVE to paint my kitchen a yellowed pumpkin color. Would it be weird to go from blue to orange?
Please ignore the furnishings (I was having a party when I took these over the summer), so a lot of it has changed. But you can see the rooms in question.
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  • 12 years ago
    keep the same blue throughout, lighten up with white trimmings or skirtings and that yellow is far to harsh with that blue. add the pumpkin colours in your furniture or your cupboards and other accesories, your little orange table justs pops in that picture, aim for that rather than smothering it in the pumpkin paint.

    Comments (21)

    • 12 years ago
      As you can see, the living room has my shade of blue, and one wall in the dining room has wallpaper in that shade, and I'm painting the other three walls the blue as well. But the dining room flows into the kitchen..where I'd like to go...orange yellow:) Yay or nay?
    • 12 years ago
      I don't think it's weird going from blue to yellow, as they complement each other. A pumpkin, however, is (or sounds) much stronger than the soft tone of blue that you have, and that's a radical change. I think it's best to use a similar strength of color so there is a balance. Can you post color samples of the blue and the pumpkin together so we can compare them?
      feyleah thanked hilltop1155

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    • PRO
      12 years ago
      I think it would be helpful to integrate some additional colors into each of the spaces. Good rugs might be a place to start. That will also help make the transitions less jarring.
      feyleah thanked HERE Design and Architecture
    • 12 years ago
      Here are the colors..
    • 12 years ago
      So it isn't weird to have blue throughout the whole house?
      (my bathroom and bedrooms are also light shades of blue).
      I love the color, and it's been hard finding pretty colors to go with the gray laminate flooring. And everything looks good with this color of blue.
    • PRO
      12 years ago
      No. It's entirely normal. ;)
    • 12 years ago
      I would not paint all the rooms the same blue, but would double its value in some rooms and perhaps halve it in others so you have lighter and darker shades of the same color. That will provide cohesiveness but will make it a bit more interesting than everything the exact same color.

      I think orange can work in kitchen if you use orange in rugs and decor in the blue rooms as previously suggested. I also agree that orange in pic is way way too harsh and that it should be a softer color of the same value as the blue. Think hot with hot and soft with soft.
      feyleah thanked mcbriec
    • 12 years ago
      agree with mcbriec in halving and doubling, but as you already have purchased the paint, you can make it work using it for everything. perhaps add more darker blues in your decor in some rooms and lighter in others, if you dont want to purchase extra paint and slowly trickle more and more orange throughout so that when you get to the kitchen most of your orange is there.
      feyleah thanked reptarkitty
    • 12 years ago
      Would these look okay together?
    • 12 years ago
      Or is this still too dark of a color?
    • 12 years ago
      I think you can make the two colors work by integrating the yellow/orange in both the living and dining rooms. For example, you have a yellow table and lamp in the living room already. Maybe paint the back of the shelving unit yellow or bring in more yellow with pillows. In the dining room, use art or paint the table with your plants yellow. You get the idea. By repeating the yellow in your other rooms, the kitchen will look awesome. Nice home BTW :)
      feyleah thanked User
    • 12 years ago
      This is the first home I've ever lived in alone (my hubby of 30 yrs died suddenly last year). I'm a artist, I'm pretty good at painting portraits..but can't manage to imagine paint colors on my walls! So frustrating!
      I will continue with the blue, and start collecting orange and red pottery, maybe I'll paint a large bright painting for the kitchen.
      Thank you so much for all of your comments, makes me feel a lot better going forward:)
    • 12 years ago
      last modified: 12 years ago
      I love blue and yellow together and think those colors will look great in your kitchen!

      Here's some inspiration to tie in the yellow without actually painting the walls:

      1. Paint the back of your shelving yellow
      2. Yellow, blue and orange wallpaper
      3. Find a roman shades for the 2 windows in blue/yellow
    • 12 years ago
      or even a blue/yellow backsplash tile:
    • PRO
      12 years ago
      I'd paint the kitchen the color you have on the mantel!!!!

      Love that as the kitchen color, thte orange is ...so...so. Is the dining room green?
    • PRO
      12 years ago
      I'd not paint the dining room, I'd wall paper it! The way it's heading you might end up with a " box of cayons"
    • 12 years ago
      last modified: 12 years ago
      I would LOVE to paint the color on the mantle in the kitchen, but faces north, and it's already too dark. One D.R. wall is wallpapered already with paper I love, it matches the blue paint (it was around $300 for that one small wall). I did paint green trying to pull some from the wallpaper pattern, it's dismal looking. I'm currently painting the blue in the D.R. and it's looking much brighter already. LOVE north facing rooms for my art studio...not so much for my living spaces.
    • PRO
      12 years ago
      if the room is dark is may be a "lighting issue" not a color issue....let get the lighting correct and work from there!
    • 12 years ago
      I think it would be great but just keep the pumpkin color soft since the blue is soft. And to help pull the rooms together, put pops of pumpkin (pillows, pictures, candles, rugs, etc.) in the rooms with blue and pops of blue in the pumpkin kitchen that way the rooms flow together.
      feyleah thanked jrobertson7148
    • PRO
      12 years ago
      I'm thinking that pulling the rooms together can never be accomplished by painting each room a distinct color. there needs to be some continuity
      feyleah thanked GARY FINLEY
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