What color to paint room?

May 22, 2010

My husband and I just bought a new place. This is not a forever home, just somewhere we will be living for the next 2-4 years so we’re trying to keep personal preferences out of it and would like for it to appeal to the masses when we go to sell. I’ve looked at color visualizers, paint swatches, and am a little lost.

Here is the front of the room (this picture was take from the kitchen).

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I have already painted the stone fireplace bright white and will be changing the ceiling fan to something a little more streamline.

Here is the back of the room (kitchen- ignore the furniture.. it is not ours):

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all the colors sort of need to work together.We are currently putting up a backsplash in the kitchen that will cover the full left wall and behind the stove/counter top. http://www.glasstilestore.com/TUSCANY-PATTERN-SUPER-WHITE-GLASS-TILE-p/tuscanysuperwhite.htm it mimics the fireplace stone. The hardware on the cabinets is also changing ( http://images.bedbathandbeyond.com/assets/product_images/380/120089120826C.JPG )

We have this couch:

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And this coffee table:

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and a black dining table for the main room.

We plan on tearing down the mantel and replacing it with a plasma tv (we will sell the tv with the place)

Any suggestions? Specifics would be helpful.. we were thinking about gray- but I like darker gray and would be afraid it would look so drab and boring. Thanks!

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2 Responses to “What color to paint room?”

cactusgene said:

May 22nd, 2010 at 5:05 pm

Generally it is best to paint a general purpose room in a neutral color. I would go with off-white, bone-white or Swiss coffee. A dark grey is too tough to match with anything in the room and after a while might actually look dirty.
mr fugi said:

May 22nd, 2010 at 5:05 pm

I would suggest a nice perry winkle blue, it would look great with all the decor that you guys have. But I think the gray would work too, but gray makes everything dull and kind of sad looking, maybe you can do one accent wall different from the other?

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