Changing the color scheme-help!

9 years ago

My dining area and hall way need to be repainted. The point where they meet with the living room is all open to viewing in to each room, but it's not an open concept-there are definitely dividing walls.

I am head over heels in love with this color scheme. My living room is painted in the blue color, so the other rooms would play nice if I paint within this scheme.

Now, the dining area is open to the kitchen, but is definitely it's own room. The kitchen has cream and espresso cabs with black appliances and creamy walls. Both rooms have black trim-and the hallway has black bookcases and accessories-so black will be an integral part, but you can see it is an accent in this scheme. The blinds in the dining area are similar to those in this inspo pic, but I don't have WT in there.

What would be best for the dining area? I don't really want to match the kitchen walls-currently the dining area is a deep, deep red. We are NOT afraid of color! Would the green tone be too weird for a DR? What about the coral? I'm afraid that might be too fast food restaurant like!

The hall can go any color-I'm not married to any particular one, just want to keep it in the scheme.

I'm open to all suggestions-and color names if you don't mind. Thanks!

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joaniepoanie
9 years ago
What color wood do you have in your dining room ? Which blue is your LR....the pillow with the butterflies?
neetsiepie
Original Author
9 years ago
The LR is a bit lighter than the pillow. The floor in the DR and kitchen are very similar in color to the inspo. This pic shows how you can see into each room, and you can also see just how jarring the current colors are against one another.

I'll try to post another pic of the kitchen/dining layout so you can see how they're connected, but not open.
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neetsiepie
Original Author
9 years ago
Also, the floor in the LR is going to be painted a creamy color-it's not able to be refinished, and we're not up to replacing it any time soon.

Hall floor is to be refinished at a later date-the color will be consistent with the DR and the family room that you can't see in these pics.

The hall is very dark, we installed new lighting, but it just doesn't get rid of the shadows. The room beyond the hall (to the left of the photo above) is open to the family room-it's got wood panelling on two walls, white built in bookcases on another and the very short wall is orange...another one to tie in to the other scheme.

I'm having a new broom/vacuum closet installed where there were built in drawers in the hall, so that is an impetus to repaint the room-the new door will be white. Also the hall has a bedroom at either end, those doors are currently painted that hideous yellow (I don't know what I was thinking!) and they'll get repainted back to white when I redo the paint in there.

NOTE: This pic was taken right after we bought the house. The first thing I did was take out that panelling and paint the walls in the DR.
neetsiepie
Original Author
9 years ago
Hall opening to rear portion of house-you can see thru to the family room and the outside from this view.

While I loved the original light fixture, it just didn't put out light for the whole hallway. I did keep it, just repurposed it as a candleholder.
joaniepoanie
9 years ago
I like the yellow/gold color in the seat cushion in your inspiration picture. I also like the green pillow behind the blue one. I don't think I'd do coral, I think that's a tough color to get right.