Help picking a paint color

[dd1204]

I need to paint my dining room and I'm having a hard time picking a color. The floors are a dark oak, the base board and crown molding are going to be painted white. The adjacents rooms are painted gray so I would really prefer a non grey color. Hopefully the pictures show up. The first is our dining room furniture and the second is the floor color.

[sierramist03]

What about the light aqua color from the back of the chair?

[demandypants]

Do you have any accent colors in the adjoining rooms that you could make a main color? that is usually how I figure these things out. I like the color schemes to relate to one another in my main living area.

[mrs.jacinthe]

How about a smokey blue color? You could also pull that sort of mustardy yellow color off the chairs and that would be gorgeous.

[dd1204]

Jan 6, 2014 12:18:45 GMT -5 sierramist03 said:

What about the light aqua color from the back of the chair?

Something like this?

This is the grey that we have throughout the house.

[dd1204]

demandypants

The adjacent room is currently empty. It's considered the formal living room but my husband wants to turn it into a bar area/guys room.

[dd1204]

Jan 6, 2014 12:27:09 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

How about a smokey blue color? You could also pull that sort of mustardy yellow color off the chairs and that would be gorgeous.

Do you think the mustard yellow will darken the room?

[mrs.jacinthe]

Depends on the shade of yellow you choose. Something like this would work great:


(BM Concord Ivory from the nestie paint bio)

or this:

(BM Maple Sugar also from the paint bio)

[dd1204]

Jan 6, 2014 16:49:24 GMT -5 nursecramer said:

I think yellow+gray and aqua+gray will soon look really dated. I like the idea of a slate blue (like I think mrs.jacinthe is suggesting) better. Or maybe the pink/mauve from the chair. Something like this:

What would be a slate blue in Sherwin Williams color? When I Google slate blue all different shades of blue come up.

[laurental]

I have a very soft blue that has green undertones that I think would look great with those items. It is called Barely Jade by Glidden. I'm not usually a huge fan of glidden, but I got the paint/primer in one and it covered really well over a very ugly mustard that I had given a try. I'll try and find a picture of my room.

[bunnies]

I'd like a lighter version of the yellow, not at exact match.

[TBM]

I think a shade of gold rather than a yellow (especially a pale yellow, which I find unappetizing) might be nice, but my tendencies lean more toward a smokey blue.

I love your chairs.

[stephm0188]

Jan 6, 2014 17:23:52 GMT -5 laurental said:

I have a very soft blue that has green undertones that I think would look great with those items. It is called Barely Jade by Glidden. I'm not usually a huge fan of glidden, but I got the paint/primer in one and it covered really well over a very ugly mustard that I had given a try. I'll try and find a picture of my room.

I have this color in my family room, but I had it matched to Behr.

[magnoliablossom]

How about navy or dark blue walls?

[dd1204]

Jan 6, 2014 21:02:25 GMT -5 magnoliablossom said:

How about navy or dark blue walls?

I would prefer not to go dark. I'm going to home depot tonight to get some paint samples.

[auntie]

I have a gray library that opens off a creamy buttery gold (almost the color of Plugra butter) in my upstairs landing. They play nicely together.