paint question - attached rooms

[sweetoj]

Hey guys! I am getting ready to paint my living area and kitchen...woo hoo.... I have picked Valspar Limestone. It's a very warm gray/beige/green color. It looks great in all rooms except I fear it is too dark for my kitchen.

The kitchen is open to the living area with a half bar dividing it. We do have white molding seperating the two rooms. The kitchen is fairly small with darker cabinets. There is not alot of natural light in there so I am scared that the Limestone will be too dark.

So my question is, should everything be painted the same color or should I use a lighter color in the kitchen? I know that you can paint different rooms different colors, but it just seems weird to me because the kitchen is so small that it will look out of place. Make sense?

What do you suggest? Thanks!

[floridakat]

It's hard to make a suggestion without seeing a picture, but you could always go a couple of colors up on the strip to get a nice, complementary color. I would rather have two different colors going on than a cave of a kitchen.

[emjacobs]

From the sounds of it they are technically two divided areas but you can see the one from the other. If this is the case a lighter complimenting color would be find in the kitchen.

[magdala9]

Nov 9, 2012 17:06:07 GMT -5 emjacobs said:

From the sounds of it they are technically two divided areas but you can see the one from the other. If this is the case a lighter complimenting color would be fine in the kitchen.

agreed.

[auntie]

If you want a harmonious flow when the colors are seen from the same space, stay in the same color family of the same paint strip.

Be careful of your terminology. Complementary in the color world means 180 degrees away on the color wheel (think red and green) and is most often chosen for accents rather than walls.

FWIW, the colors I picked something like this for my MBR. I'm doing a light aqua in my large BR, a paler version in the dressing area and a more intense version in the bath. They're all off the same strip.

It sounds like you are looking to use different "tints"- the same color mixed at different intensities by adding white. Different tones are acheived by adding dark to the pigments.