Need help for wall colour
Hi everyone. Please help us to choose the wall colour as we are not very happy with the existing yellowish colour. We have light grey laminate floor all the house except the bedrooms which is dark colour. We like calm, modern and cozy style. Which colour we should choose for the hallway, living room (light grey floor) and which colour for bedrooms (dark floor). Thank you so much guys
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PROThe Unbusy Home
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoHi Coba,
I like your flooring, it's beautiful!
For the bedroom I would go for a pastel blue paint, it's very calm and it helps with a better nights sleep too. It would look brilliant with the dark wooden floor and it would also match your lightwood wardrobe colours.
For the hallway how do you feel about a pastel mint green? It's fresh, happy and it cheers up a small functional space with not too much furniture in it. Just make sure you choose a balanced colour that isn't super bright.
For the living room you could go for a neutral colour or white, depending on the style and colour of furniture you have, then you could add pops of colour with art work, fabrics and accessories. Alternatively you could opt for a light pastel salmon(ish) pink paint combined with a matching geometric wallpaper. I attached images to illustrate what I mean. I think this would complement the light grey floor quite nicely.
Hope this helps, but happy to discuss further if these suggestions are far away from what you'd like :)
Coba Nguyen
7 years agoHi Erika
Thanks a lot for the recommendation.
In the hall way, we have Oak staircase and Oak door as you can see from the picture so I think the pastel mint green may work. Although I am quite like grey shades. I don't know whether it will make the rooms too cold?
In the living room, we have red sofa, white coffee table and a walnut TV self, double door oak and 2 separate dark navy doors to the terrace (2nd photo) so I am thinking of using the same colour with the hall way/white colour for this room as there are so many colours going on and one dark colour for the wall feature behind the sofa . Do you think it would be a good idea if I choose the colour for feature wall the same as the one of the doors to the terrace? And should I limit the number of colours for the whole house? I'm concerned that if I use so many colours, it may cause confusion.
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7 years agoHi Coba, looks like you have a fab house! For the hallway, we would be tempted to paint the walls a crisp white to match the light tones in the flooring (see below for a project we recently worked on) or you could even go with a patterned wallpaper perhaps something similar to the below?
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