What color would you suggest?

[dalangdon]

I'm needing to paint the living room (mom and sis are coming for Thanksgiving, and I want to lose the "rental white" the previous owners inflicted on us) and I need some input.

Since the adjoining kitchen is green/turquoise, and the living room has an eastern exposure I wanted to go with a warmish color. I'm thinking a pale orange. What do you folks think?

 

[58limited]

Given your decor, I think the orange will work. You can also go with a lighter version of the area rug color. I did the opposite: my area rug is a lighter version of my wall color. I love the mirror-thing above your fireplace.

 

[brettsomers]

how about sunny/pastel yellow?

 

[petek]

I'm thinking that fleshtone color from Crayola if they still have it from the 64 box, you know the one with the built in sharpener.

 

[dalangdon]

My old kitchen was sunny yellow, and I'm not ready to go there yet, ;-) And with how bright it gets in there in the morning, I think it would be a bit much - I know it was in my old kitchen.

I'm intrigued by the fleshtone idea, though. As a (hopefully) interesting sidenote, I looked that up on the Crayola website. It says it was changed to "peach" in 1962 out of respect for the civil rights movement, but I remember distinctly having that in my crayon box as a kid - and I was born in 1965.

My Dad always had us buy our school supplies (and other stuff) at this funky old drugstore because the owners had let his folks run a line of credit during the depression, so I wonder if they just had really old crayons.

 

[maytagbear]

My suggestion-

Either "Diamond Blue," which is the palest blue, like 70% white, and 30% blue, (surprisingly lovely) or go with "Pete's Peach."

I'm saying pale blue because of the "3 rule"-- if you have 3 shades of the same colour, you can get more impact with walls in the same colour family.

I think maybe Crayola has their dates a little off, as well.

Just my .2

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[cehalstead]

peach/flesh crayon

You must have gotten some of the old crayons as you suggested. I remember when peach replaced flesh, and it was in '62......

 

[frigilux]

This one's a no-brainer, Dan: The obvious choice is BLACK. Then the stalking panther on the mantle will be camouflaged and better able to surprise his intended victim!

So blow the dust off those old Joy Division albums and have at it, LOL!

 

[dalangdon]

I spent five years working in a "leather" bar (although I always thought we were the nelliest leather bar EVER - really quite respectable, despite our sinister persona) that was painted pitch black, inside and out. That was enough for me, thank you ;-)

Besides, that panther is all talk.....

 

[oxydolfan1]

I worked in a dungeon. Talk about sinister.....

How about "Pirates Cove Beach" (OC-80) from Benjamin Moore?

 

[sheerlookhomes]

soft copper

 

[frigilux]

LOL! I played in enough clubs painted all black inside to last me a lifetime, too. Obviously I am a person who should not offer advice on interior decoration. Which bar did you work at? If it's in Seattle, I've probably been there.

 

[dalangdon]

The club was called "The Cuff", I was the Saturday night Hat Check Girl in the winter, and the Sunday Afternoon Barbequer in the summer. I added that special something to pre-cooked, partially soy "sirloin patties" and unsuspecting bratswurst.

Soft copper... that sounds nice. I knew you guys would have some great ideas. The Pirate's Cove sounds exotic as well.

 

[whirlcool]

How 'bout a butter cream kind of yellow, or a pale salmon color, after all you are in Seattle! Home Depot makes a yellow called "Citrus Moon" that would fit the bill nicely.

 

[lokringbob]

Sedona Dust

You might want to give Sedona Dust by Dutch Boy a try. It is a warm color and changes as the light changes. Kind of a yellowy beige. I think it would make the fire place and your furniture pop Hmmm maybe I have been watching to much HG TV. When done would love to see the finished product.

Happy Painting
:>)

 

[brettsomers]

is that a vintage time-life book on the coffee table?

 

[frigilux]

I remember The Cuff! Haven't been there for awhile, but a friend used to live on Olive Way near a park and we'd walk a few blocks to The Cuff all the time. Cool! If you worked in the summer, chances are we were in the same bar at the same time at some point. Small world.

 

[dalangdon]

Cookbook

That is the 1958 Life "Picture Cook Book". It's very glamorous: Lots of over-the-top suburban homes, and a whole section on "Restaraunts of the World", including a bunch of classic American ones.

And yes, Frig, the whole world comes to the Cuff. Or did, at least. I haven't been there that much since I stopped working there. There's nothing like working in a bar to put you off going out ;-)

I'm going to stop after work tonight and get some paint chips!

 

[gansky1]

Hold your chips up to the stone around the fireplace to get an idea if it will compliment those color tones -- or look like butt. I thought the pale orange was a good idea until I stared at the fireplace a while. Maybe it's just the lighting in the photo but that will be the deal maker/breaker for many colors.

Chips will help - keep us in the loop!