Time to paint, any suggestions?

[insiderart]

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That's what I was thinking last night when I couldn't sleep!! How do I know if its a warm or cool color. Should it be obvious?

Warm colors have a yellow undertone, cool colors have a blue undertone. Um... hmmm... um... Wow after an afternoon of swimming I can't seem to find the explanation for that. It's right there.. somewhere in my brain.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

Here are some pics for you:

This is what it looked like two months ago:

 

[australorpchick]

Ha, ha, ha (evil smile) you are asking the wrong person. I like to paint murals. At our old house I painted one room all Looney Tunes babies and the another room was a Disney Princess Room, complete with pink bricks, silver mortar, portraits and a blazing fire. For the master bedroom (my poor husband, he, he, he) I made it a tiger jungle room. The walls were all tiger print, the ceiling was dark brown with bamboo and the entrance to our room was black. Needless to say, he said I had to tone it down in our new house.

My recommendation is to find something you like (like a flower arrangement or picture) and use one or two colors from it. My Living/Dining room is mostly sage with one wall merlot. My bedroom is all tropical green with one dark red wall. The kitchen is sage and the family room is beige. I'm just not into plain walls. Not to mention the painters applied the texture, primer and paint in one shot, so whenever we try to clean a wall, everything comes off. Eventually I'll have to paint the whole house.

My hubby's not allowed to paint inside the house. The last time he painted, he painted over the picture hooks and several months later, when I moved the entertainment center, I discovered he hadn't moved it and just painted around it. He's luck we still had some paint leftover.

 

[thechickenchick]

Wow! Its beautiful!

You should be so proud. I am going to take before and after pics too. Thank you for taking the tome to post pics.

 

[kezabel]

We rent our house of a family friend who moved to the other side of Australia so they wanted someone in this house to look after it incase they want to move back. My landlord said its time to paint the house and asked if we would start soon, she said just buy the paint ect and take it out of the weekly rent. This is fine with me but I don't know what colours to choose. At the moment the walls and ceiling are a light grey and the skirting boards and trim around the doors are a darker grey. She said we can paint it in what ever colour we choose, just not pink.
The floors are polished wood through most of the house but the hall way and bedrooms are carpeted in grey.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'll take photos because the kitchen is an apricoty colour and the rooms are really big with really high ceilings. I want to do feature walls but I have no clue on what wall to make the feature.
Sugestions please.

Sorry The chickenchick for jumping on your thread but when I seen it, you reminded me

 

[The Chicken Lady]

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Thanks! I know yours will be beautiful, too. I can't wait to see your finished project!

 

[thechickenchick]

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No apology necesarry! The more the merrier! Maybe we can both get great ideas for our project. I have to buy paint on Friday so I need to make up my mind. BTW I love your avatar!!

 

[English Chick]

I would stick with nuetrals, as you only have one window in your room and it does not get enough light, painting it in anything other than a pale colour on the top of the dado rail would make it very dark. I would go for a magnolia on the top, with a light coffee colour on the bottom of the wall, this should offset nicely with your carpet colours. You could then use accent colours with your bedding, chocolate duvet/pillow colours, with just a couple of deep red bed cushions etc etc and possibly a red bed throw to the end of the bed. You could also use coffee coloured bedside lamp shades. That should make it warm light and cosy all at the same time.

Good luck and dont forget pics pics pics...............

 

[thechickenchick]

Thank you everyone for your help. Tomorrow is shopping day!

I am thinking a chocolate brown(warm under tones right insideart?) and a rich Carmel. My dilemma now is, I want to do 1 color on the bed wall and the other on the remaining 3 walls. The window wall faces the bed wall. I have a large mirror collage I hope to place above the bed. It will reflect light from the window and accent the bed. I think it would look great against the chocolate, but would that cover it to much and leave enough dark color in the room? Should I do 2 walls of each color?

Can you tell I don't get to do this often!?

Its a darn good thing too, all of this decision making is giving me a headache!!!!!!!!!

 

[English Chick]

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Get sample pots of each colour you have in mind, paint the wall with the sample and leave it for a week, see how the colour changes with the different light of the day etc............then make a decision.