Architectural Designs

What color should I paint my dining room and living room? ?

I recently purchased a home (bungalow style) and I am wanting to decorate my kitchen, dining room and living room. I have an open floor plan from the living room-foyer (walk in area) and dining room, although there is division between the living room and dining room. my kitchen is next to my dining room and is totally divided. I have hardwood floors chestnut color from the entrance of the house to the dining room and a neutral color carpet for my living room. I love hgtv but could not find anything. I have a light wood color dining room table made from solid wood and in my living room i have a L sectional sofas,plasma and a fireplace with original unpainted brick work. I love natural colors but very afraid to use them. Now I have a second question or need opinions. My kitchen has oak color cabinets with laminate countertops a little of brown and black specs my floor has ceramic tile natural brown with white specs, i love apples and the theme of apples so i decided to paint my kitchen 3 walls of 4 an avocado green and the other wall a darker green rosemary sprig so basically 3 walls are a lighter shade of green and the one wall is a darker green. Did i do the right thing or was it a wrong combination of greens and a bad choice because of my light brown with white spec floor and brown spec counter top. please helppppp !!! desperate =)

Public Comments

1. dining room color-light yellow living room color-light pinkish purple
2. Dining room paint white and the livingroom paint sky blue or light blue
3. 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 "artisan tan" (# 7540) might be a great choice for the LR/DR. 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.