Hey Hooker I need HELP BAD!!! My wife wants to paint our living, dining and kitchen area. It is open and they all share some of the same walls. She wants to paint maroon, a light green and some shade of blue. I normally just let her do what she wants in the house but I just cant see these colors working together. What do you think, will they work together? Any other 3 color combo selections you would recommend???
I'd paint the same color...or at least use different shades of the same color light green and blue could work...but maroon? No.
I can't believe I am commenting on this, but I have to disagree. My wife had the living room/dining room/kitchen painted when we moved into our house. Kitchen was yellow, dining room was tan, with a really dark brown below the chair rail, and the living room was tan with an accent wall in maroon. Even the painters looked at the color scheme and shook their heads, but when it was done AND our furniture was moved in, the colors in the living room furniture kind of pulled it all together. So the moral of the story is, it depends on how you accessorize your house. Now I'm going to go shoot some guns, skin a deer, or do something else manly to atone for this post.
I saw this thread Tom and immediately thought you were going to ask his opinion on um... something else.
Out of the 3 colors she likes maroon the best and wants to keep it. What other color would work with it?
As a girl, I think I can go ahead and comment on this. I believe using the maroon as an accent together with a blend of the blue and green walls, (I'm assuming light blue and green), should come across nicely. Of course you have some furniture and accent pieces to balance the maroon so it's not all by itself. A floorcovering compatible with those colors would be a given, but that should just fall into place once the walls are done. I mean, you will just know when you get the right floorcovering. Why not paint some 2 x 2 pieces of plywood, hang them on the appropriate walls and then visualize how the colors move together with the furnishings? Oh yes, almost forgot. I assume the area is large enough to do this. Our house is very small, so all our walls are off-white except for the family room which is fake wood paneling. (My husband acquired the house as a repo long before I met him.)
I just think maroon is way too dark of a color for walls. I always go with lighter colors for the walls. You can bring in bolder color elsewhere... I actually love just plain white walls since it leaves the rest of the room as a blank canvas. You can bring any other colors in you want and change a room around quite easily without having to repaint. Plus white makes rooms brighter. I hate dark rooms.
I purchased my current home 2 yrs ago. One of the bedrooms (use it as a guest room) was painted in maroon. I don't care for it much but I dislike painting enough that I haven't bothered to change it.
I am getting ready to go buy paint. I do not know why I have to go because I am not going to have a say in it anyways
Whoa are you going with to get the paint or are you going alone? If you are going alone you have zero chance of getting it right.
I just painted my kitchen it took my wife 3 weeks to pick a color and when she did I painted it and she hated it. Second time was the charm for her but I hate the color.
