need paint color help- updated

[Peony]

While I am in Maine next month visiting another MDC mama, DH is going to replace our floor in the living room and play room with cork. Only problem being now we have to pick a paint color for the play room so he can paint before laying the floor.

Here are pics of the area. http://picasaweb.google.com/PeonyMam...oomKitchenPics

What you need to know, the living room, kitchen, and playroom are all connected. The kitchen/dining room is painted grey as well as the hallway leading from the kitchen to the entryway and living room. The entryway is also painted grey. The living room is painted a sage green. I need a color for the playroom. DH is saying we have to paint it grey, I am really over the grey. I had jut wanted it in the kitchen and dining room, he also took it and painted the hallway and entry way with it. I don't want too many colors going on, but don't know what will work with the sage green and grey.


We also need to paint the upstairs loft. One wall is green because that wall is also the living room wall, the rest is still white, including the stairs. DH keeps insisting that the stairs have to be grey because of the entry wall being grey and that the loft has to be green with that one wall already being green. Hence the reason I am asking for help! I am so over the grey and green, it's great in one room, but I don't want the majoirty of the house painted those colors. Suggestions?



Update:

It's done! Here are the pics: http://picasaweb.google.com/PeonyMama/NewLivingRoom

[binxsmom]

first of all, i gotta say, i love the openness of your home. very cool.

it looks like you have a lot of neutral colors going on. i think that a green color in several shades deeper would look great in the playroom. that's always safe. if you want a pop of color, a pumpkin orange color looks great with sage and grey. i love orange and it's a totally hot trend. to work with the sage, just keep the 3d color muted. not bright. maybe tie in a color from the piece of artwork on the wall in the l.r. going into the playroom.

i think it's cool to pick 3 colors and work with them. think of colors that you love or a 3d color that ties into the rest of your home. i'm also a fan of just painting one wall, an accent wall. this is a very cool look. like, maybe take the playroom color and just paint the wall in the loft that has the window.

good luck!

[beanma]

I think you could do a warm yellow (leaning more toward orange instead of toward green, like daffodil). you'd probably want to keep it in the same tone as the green so fairly pastel.

you could also go with a blue, or you could try a honeycomb color (kinda like the yellow, but with more brown undertones).

[AnalogWife]

Originally Posted by beanma

I think you could do a warm yellow (leaning more toward orange instead of toward green, like daffodil). you'd probably want to keep it in the same tone as the green so fairly pastel.

you could also go with a blue, or you could try a honeycomb color (kinda like the yellow, but with more brown undertones).

This Mainah sez: I think the daffodil/honeycomb suggestions are great! GL!

[thriftyqueen]

I would draw inspiration from the picture hanging over the doorway. That way you pull the two rooms together with the artwork.

[CariOfOz]

I second the you have a lovely home comment I think it depends on whether you REALLY want something different (as in a big statement) or just something a *little different* I have always LOVED sage & a dusky purple (hop over to http://www.sherwin.com/visualizer/
The purple that jumped out at me was 6265 Quixotic Plum (who names these things anyway? lol) I think it would look gorgeous against the sage and you could toss a couple of throw pillows in that colour in the living room and voila 'i meant to do that!' add some simple violet window valances maybe in the dining area/kitchen and it would be fanTASTIC ETA: 6271 is also a lovely colour and a bit lighter if really bold colour makes you nervous

You could also go the darker version of the green as well (0015 gallery green)

Grats on getting new floors AND new paint at the same time.. very jealous

[Peony]

I'm finding it amusing that people like my house! I hated it, felt like I settled because we had to buy a place right that second and nothing was on the market in the middle of winter. I have always had smaller houses, this one is huge, 2800 sq ft, but only 3B 2B so a lot of open space. We've been here over a year now and it's growing on me, I am really fond of the location and my yard so that kinda makes up for the sprawling house... some.



We have to get a new floor, our dog has had severe separation anxiety, it's finally under control but we were left with literally hundreds of pee stains on all the carpet. The rooms that we are replacing downstairs are the worst. It's so bad, that I can always smell dog pee no matter what I do, it's soaked all the way down to the mat under the carpet. So we'll replace those two rooms and then next year the loft floor has to be done because it's nasty as well, I refuse to walk on a large section of it without shoes.


Hmmm, I'm liking yellow or an orange, the purple sounds like something I would love but DH HATES color with a passion (he dislikes the green enough as it is), he would never paint the walls that color. Though, maybe I could trick him, he is colorblind and purple looks like tan to him, so just tell him it's tan? I am rather fond of orange, our first house was painted a mango color with one bright orange wall, I loved it, he of course hated it. Thanks for giving me some ideas!

[CariOfOz]

LOL @ the tan deception... could work, but you'd be busted severely the first time a visitor comments Wondering.. if purple doesn't LOOK like purple to him,... how exactly does he know he hates it? We require after photos btw

[Peony]

Originally Posted by CariOfOz

LOL @ the tan deception... could work, but you'd be busted severely the first time a visitor comments Wondering.. if purple doesn't LOOK like purple to him,... how exactly does he know he hates it? We require after photos btw

He thinks he hates it. Same with blue, I have no idea what color blue looks like to him, but he can't stand it.

[CariOfOz]

LMAO that is too funny