What is your living room color/design scheme?
We are renovating our house and the living room currently has no flooring (just concrete, but we will be installing carpet - not sure what color yet) and the 1970's paneling - which we are going to either paint or texture and paint. This is my first home that I can decorate. I am looking for ideas on color/design schemes for a living room.
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January 30th, 2010 at 4:44 am
play around with the Sherwin Williams color visualizer to help you imagine how the colors will look together. It is the best paint visualizer on the web, imho. I like how their color palette is laid out, I like that you can search by color family & color name, the "painted" rooms look the most realistic, and it suggests coordinating color schemes. You can literally spend hours:
http://www.sherwin.com/visualizer/
I think "macadamia" (# 6142) might be a great choice.
You can take a photo of your house & upload it to the makeover gallery on this website:
http://www.roomvues.com/
You can get color suggestions & for $5 they’ll photoshop them onto your room so that you can get an idea of what it will look like.
January 30th, 2010 at 4:44 am
My living room is done in an African theme, yellow, light brown, soft lighting, hardwood floors.
It’s important that a living room be warm and inviting, it’s the room you’ll spend the most time in (probably) and thus must be very comfortable to you, so in the end a big part of it is just preference.
January 30th, 2010 at 4:44 am
My parents’ house was painted dirty white as they said. The living room was designed by an interior designer who also designed of the palaces in saudi arabia.
January 30th, 2010 at 4:44 am
Go to a store where you can afford to shop on a regular basis and see what they are featuring there.
Select a neutral for your two biggest investments: your upholstered furniture and your flooring. You can never go wrong with basic neutrals like a cool taupe or warm beige (but not both in combination). In fact, if you make this the majority of your palette, you can afford to change some things like pillows, draperies, lamps, objects d’art, painted accent walls, and other accessories on a pretty regular basis to continually keep your surroundings updated.
I was faced with a gorgeous, but difficult to overcome cranberry carpet in our new home. The piece was very high quality and replacement didn’t seem reasonable. I painted the walls taupe and added brown, off white, and a little more red to the furnishings. It’s rather masculine and rather lush now. It’s my husband’s favorite room, but women adore it, too.
January 30th, 2010 at 4:44 am
My living room is taupe with floral couch and love seat. The couch set was actually a hand me down from my MIL, it sat in her showroom aka the living room no one was allowed in for 4 years. I had to decorate around it, so I have cherry wood end tables and audio units. The floor is a beige carpet that I hate but dressed up with some nice throw rugs. The moldings are a hunter green. The curtains are a red on a shiny material. A small crystal chandelier provides more then enough light.
Pick out what furniture you want and try to paint in a versatile color. Grey, taupe, white etc. remember that even if you dislike bland colors it can be freshen up with a bright color on the moldings and wall decorations on those empty walls that stare back at you.
The furniture should be arrange around the centerpiece which for most is the tv. In order for your eye to be driven to the center piece you might want to put it on the opposite wall from the doorway/entrance.
good luck!
If you want to get creative you can buy stencils from a arts and craft store which you can use to paint your own border or to freshen up older furnisher.
January 30th, 2010 at 4:44 am
Use earth colors because its relaxing and it kinda blend to any furniture color that you put.
Earth colors such as yellow, brown, and red ochres, raw sienna (yellowish-brown), raw umber (dark yellowish-brown), and terre-verte (greyish-green). Roasting will change the colour, for instance raw sienna becomes reddish-brown as burnt sienna, and raw umber a dark brown as burnt umber.
goodluck on your decorating your first home!
January 30th, 2010 at 4:44 am
Let’s see……I have a frieze wall to wall carpet in a color called "Cashew"..it’s a warm sandy shade, not too dark or too light. My walls are painted a light yellowish/gold and the curtains are the same color as the walls but a few shades darker. I have a sage green couch, a desk, a bookcase, a trunk I use as a coffee table (and storage for tablecloths and blankets), a big tree in one corner and a tropical floral chair with greens and turquoise and apricot in it. I used those colors as accents in the pillows. I have a huge framed piece of art above my couch and a big mirror on another wall. Lots of plants, books, a couple end tables that don’t match (on purpose) and 3 lamps. It’s cozy and eclectic. Don’t try to buy everything at once. Find one thing you love and build from that. Keeping your furniture fairly simple and plain gives you more options for accent colors, patterns and textures.
January 30th, 2010 at 4:44 am
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