What color should I paint my room?
I’m finally moving into a room of my own. The room is rather small, it’s supposed to be the office in our house. I’m having troubles deciding what color I should paint it.
For starters, my dad has already installed a wooden floor that’s in the middle of light wood and dark wood. The room already has a white trim around the ground (should I paint that as well?).
I don’t want the room to feel larger only because I’ve been so used to being in a crowded room and I already threw away as much clutter as possible. The room has a large window in which light spills through very fluently. My beds head and foot board are both cream colored.
Also, I don’t really dig bright neon colors or anything really light, I have a slight migraine problem):
Thank you!
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What is the dominant color in the floor? Try picking that up and put a lighter version on the walls (note that brighter yellows, if the dominant is yellow, are dangerous – yellow is an irritant when it comes to emotions it’s said).
I just painted some accent walls in my house a cool metallic bronze.
You may want to look at the Ralph Lauren line of metallic paints..I am sure you could find a cool color that would enhance and maximize the rooms size and the metallic sheen looks awesome in light.
Many shades to choose from.
I am hooked on metallics now.
I painted my bedroom a fairly deep shade of taupe and did the trim in a creamy off-white. The taupe came out darker than I intended but I ended up liking it a lot. It offsets the bright light from the windows very nicely. The bedding and curtains are various patterns or solids of taupe, cream and deep red, kind of these colors but more emphasis on the red and taupe.
Silver Sage is a really nice and tranquil color, I’d leave the baseboards and ceiling white.
White. Makes the room look bigger.
Those floors look gorgeous. I was thinking of @Coloma‘s suggestion of bringing out the almost bronzy accent in the wood with a bronze-color (I didn’t think metallic). But the metallic idea seems super cool. What you may want to do is use the metallic as an accent – you can create a thin striping effect with painters tape. Then you can use any color you want besides that as long as it mixes with the bronze well, and the bronze will pull the walls into the floor.
A cool tone neutral could go very nicely with the warm floor color and white trim.
From @Blueroses‘s link, the “parchment paper” and “raffia” are exactly the shades I would recommend. They’re both soft, they will provide depth without stealing light, they’ll eradicate the stark-white-walls feeling.
I find that blue is very relaxing. I would suggest looking into a light blue or green.
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