F&B Breakfast Room Green office - now what accent colours?
Hi, have painted my new office F&B Breakfast Room Green (with woodwork and a brick accent wall in Pointing). Would appreciate advice on what colour accents to bring in for eg frames and mirror frame, plant pot etc. - silver, gold, white, black, copper or...?!
More context - room faces eastsoutheast but is part-shaded by another part of building; will be ordering a blind in mixed greens on white background. Desk will be wooden and door is oak. thanks!
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Sonia
2 years agoI would go mostly with white - picture frames, plant pots etc. You could add metal colours in lamps etc too to add a bit of richness.
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Marylee H
2 years agoThe floor area is a large expanse too.
Is the colour in the pictures the flooring which is staying?
Door is from the Yellow-Red Hue FamilyPointing is from the Yellow Hue Family.
Breakfast Room Green is from the Green-Yellow Hue Family.
These colour wheels illustrate examples of other Hue Families which work well with Green-Yellow.
Once you decide which Hue Families you have to work with, e.g. walls, floor, door then you can see which others you might want to introduce to the palette.
It’s much easier, where possible, to limit your Hue Families for key fixtures and furnishings to only 3 Hue Families. As many colours as you like, but from just those 3 Families.
Each Hue Family contains not only colourful colours, but more muted colours along with blacks, whites and greys.
Colours from within them can be used to inform other key fixtures and furnishings in the room. They can be taken into rugs, window dressings, chairs, sofa, flooring. artwork , accessories etc.
K T1983
2 years agoMarylee H
2 years agoUnderstood. But don’t forget those colours you have selected ,belong to identifiable Hue Families. (indicated by the coloured segments on the wheels above)
Wimborne White belongs to the Yellow Hue Family for example.
But am not suggesting you need to pair it with a bright Yellow - but teaming it with other colours from the same Family would mean they have a colour connection. You can find blacks, whites, greys in each of those Families on the wheel.
Choosing ones which have some connection to the colours you have already chosen, helps keep your palette tight.
F&B All White + Little Greene Lamp Black both belong to the Green-Yellow Hue Family, just as Breakfast Room Green does. They share colour DNA.
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