Hi Everyone, I'm new- I need HELP! We have a new apartment that needs a total paint job. The place is large with tall ceilings, hard-wood floors, pre-war detail, BUT very low natural light (first floor, airshaft views) There will be one room in particular which will be the "family room" and will have his large black leather couches (not my taste). He wants to paint this room a deep color, I'm more prone to neutrals. We were talking about greens, but I think anything darker than a neutral shade of green will just be too dark and gloomy especially with the black furniture. How can we come to a compromise? And/Or, what colors do you suggest - can't we paint one wall - an accent wall - a deeper color and then have the other walls more neutral? Thanks!!! (PS - I can post a picture of the room, but its a bad blue color right now and no furniture in it)
White! black&white with splashes of red is awesome! or even animal prints, white walls blk. furniture leopard print pillows etc.
Black and white can take almost any strong colour red, blue, green, yellow even orange and purple. I'd go with a feature wall in a colour you both like and have accents of the same colour around the room - maybe vases, cushions or rugs.
Compromising can be hard if you have totally different points of view and semi-have your minds set. I am moving into my first condo next month and have come across this really cool tool on bhg.com that allows you to pick which room you want to paint and all the colors you want to incorporate into it (from the couch to the pillows to the wall). Maybe if the 2 of you sat down and chose different colors and saw how it would look (they show you a computerized picture) then you could compromise better. The feature is called: color a room - http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jsp?st...tory/data/coloraroom_landingpage_04292005.xml
You can always do what my wife and I do, She picks what she likes and I pick what I like and then we go with what she likes. It seems to keep her happy...lol
hi there... as u said the ceilings r high and its a big space, so using dark color will not be that great problem. and with black color furniture u can go with aqua green color or may be bottle green color. it will look great but i will suggest only one wall with dark color and rest maybe with pure white. pure white will add light to the room and dark color will add drama to the room. black furniture will look good with both the bag round.
