Wednesday 24 April 2019

Chosing a colour for the lounge

With makers of paint supplying numerous colours to paint with, yet few tester pots available in those colours, it takes an age for us to get the colours we really want.

We hope to paint the lounge in the next few months. The carpet is a mess and has gone flat, so we may as well be walking on the floor. It too needs changing.

Eventually, we decided on soft peach for the walls, on the left of these samples:
Whilst the rest looked bright, they just made the room look grubby somehow. Being north facing, we need a bit of warmth on the walls.

Normally, all 4 walls are painted the same, but we checked out an alternative colour for the chimney breast:
Ignore the green on the right, that was to go with the other 3 patches on the top and was decided against. The middle - copper blush - is way too dark. Adding white made it the wrong shade - on the left.

We will try another couple if we can get tester pots, if not, the whole room will be soft peach.

Finding a carpet in the colour we want will be a nightmare as the 'in' colour is grey. Much as I love grey, it is not the colour for the room:(



6 comments:

  1. Our colour scheme was eventually determined by our sofa! We had to buy a new one after the previous one gave up the ghost after only 25 years work. As the new one is charcoal grey - sorry (!) - we chose a mid grey carpet and white walls. Boring perhaps but our room is too small for colour on the walls. It just seems to close in on us. Hope you find your ideal colour scheme and show us the finished result.

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    1. For now, all the walls will be the same, as normal. May change our mind later.

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  2. Soft peach is a lovely warm colour. I have something similar in one of the bedrooms.

    God bless.

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    1. I think it will complement the furniture.

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  3. Looking forward to seeing finished results. Having a different colour on the 4th wall is very 'on trend' now

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    1. Probably why we won’t end up doing it.

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