subject: Lighten Up! [print this page] Q: I have a family room by the wood flooring in a herringbone pattern, wood beam ceiling, brick fireplace and brown. I have a dark blue leather sofa and love seat. I'm trying to decide on the color of the wall. I believe that the fawn, or sand / beige will be a lot of brown in that room, but do not want to be overwhelmed with the blue. Can you help me with some guidance on the options?
C: a lot of darkness in the room makes me anxious. Then again, a lot of light makes me anxious, too, which is just one reason I'm called decorative order.
In this case, as I imagine your living room, and I am grim picture of a dark, and darkness. In fact, a complete description of it makes me feel I'm being squashed between the wood floor to ceiling and wood, with nothing to save me, but the brown brick fireplace. Egads.
What comes to mind here is a little story of my family. My grandfather was a baron wood - well, "Baron wood" may be a very strong term. But let's say he made his career in the wood. Several decades after his death, my mother advised me that it was really okay to draw something made of wood. She told me how, when she was about to start home, and they want to paint wood table, and it was feared that her father had a fit if he knew.
As it turns out, did not. In fact, it was assured that the wood panel is really fine, in fact, it is better in many cases, especially if the wood was not of the quality of the knockout.
Today, many of us work under the misconception that natural wood is the preferred wood painted nature, no matter what. But this is simply not true. As with any decorating advice, it depends entirely on the room and on your way.
Here, and I would advise you to at least consider painting the ceiling, and possibly brick fireplace. Painted brick, white, and can in fact often the choice of beautiful, which helps to create an atmosphere more like home. Similarly, boxing plywood on the ceiling and the ceiling painting all white will give the illusion of the highest roof, and will add brightness.
And just in case you're thinking that I definitely will not refer to floor painting wood Jerusalem, well, I am going to do just that: We believe that the painting the color of pale wood floor. Once you agree to jump into the unknown (and non-traditional to some extent) the territory of the painting ground wood, and you can see the possibilities are endless and Sam: Is it possible to draw a border around the edge, you could paint a checkerboard pattern, or you can stencil strip of color in all parts of the center.
Now, to your question: The color of the wall. You've got a blue sofa and loveseat. If you keep the wood floor and ceiling and brick fireplace brown, and I'd have to agree that fact, any shade of brown walls She will not only lead to further darken the room.
However, blue color is very difficult for walls, can also create a lot of blue in the room.
Depending on the type of room you opt for the cream, and white with a hint only one of the beige mixed in, on the walls, and then reduce the darker brown or cobalt. If there is poured, either a crown or molding of the wall, you can paint it brown or beige is darker than the walls themselves, and in this way capture the brown from the ceiling, floor and fireplace, without overwhelming the room with darkness.
