What colour is your living room?

[bryte]

I need some inspiration. It's a 30s house with highish ceilings and a picture rail and coving. It's currently the colour of paint (patches of pink) that was under the vile wallpaper we peeled off about a year as we thought we would be decorating earlier and the wallpaper was that bad it had to go straight away. The room needed work before it was in a re-decorating state. It now is.

I'd like to go bolder than neutrals. What colour is yours?

[Thumbwitch]

My current living room is a mild gold colour, with dark green woodwork and a terracotta chimney breast (sounds awful written down!) with pine floors. I like it. :)

The last one I had was a small Edwardian semi-detached house in the UK, with terracotta tiles on the outside and all the woodwork inside was stained mahogany - windowframes, doors, skirting boards, dado rails, mantelpiece etc. I painted that living room British racing green on all walls apart from the alcoves either side of the chimney breast - those were claret. to match the curtains. And then I block-dotted gold acrylic paint over the whole lot, had a gold carpet and barley white ceiling. As I had an open fire, it was extremely warming and cozy.

[Thumbwitch]

Oh yes, my current ceiling and frieze (between picture rail and ceiling, and we have 10' ceilings) is Dulux Berkshire white.

[GinAndSlimlinePlease]

Bright white and a blue grey in the alcoves.

[weegiemum]

Our living room is painted in a mushroomy-grey colour, right through to the diner, with a lighter colour on the arch. Dark brown sofas, cushions, curtains.

Upstairs we're colour central, but I like a more muted lounge.

[KatoPotato]

We've just repainted our curved fireplace wall in Scrumptious by Crown. It's a lovely rich raspberry colour!

[wewereherefirst]

We have a 1930's house, minus the original features and our front room is stone (grey-white) with yellow in the alcoves.
I would have loved a dove grey but DH is scared of anything other than neutrals

[peachypips]

'Oak Apple' by Fired Earth.

[bangersmashandbeans]

Elephants Breath by Farrow and Bakl

[lulabelleg]

Dove Grey by Homebase. Very strong Grey with hint of blue- I've mixed it with a lot of duck egg accessories which I already had but they're a bit too close. i love the colour though. Had Farrow and Ball stone blue in last house on chimney breast which is very nice colour.

[BackforGood]

Ours is called 'Toffee Cream' but I'd say it was a yellowy colour - not as dazzlingly bright as some yellows can be though.

[RooneyMara]

depends on the aspect I think - if sunny, go for something cooler, if it's dark then go for warm colours.

Last house was yellow ochre, it was sort of a cottage so it worked quite well. And a pink kitchen!

this house it's more elegant in style so the walls are 'pale walnut' I think it's called. But everything else is bright/rich colours - red sofa, various colour cushions, red Indian carpet, dark floor boards. Deep pink velvet curtains

[myron]

F&B's Blue Grey which actually is more green on my walls but I like it.

[fatnfrumpy]

Mine is Dawn blue from B&Q but before that was sunlight yellow.
Very light south facing room with bi-fold doors.
In all our rentals we have painted Jasmine white, creamy white in all reception rooms and sunlight yellow in some light bedrooms.

[Francagoestohollywood]

A pale grey with a hint of blue, maybe. I like cold colours.

[bryte]

I think I would like a blue shade. Something that is not too dark and not too light but a lot of mid-blues are too bedroom-like or cold or bright and nauseating. does a light teal exist that is not nauseating? Or a warm mid-blue?

The sofas are dark brown. Above the picture rail will be white. I haven't chosen curtains yet. The rest of our house is quite bright and gets lots of sunlight. We have a second reception room like that. I don't mind the living room being darker; I'd quite like it to feel cosy too.

[Francagoestohollywood]

Oh yes, blues are very much fashionable in living rooms! Just be bold!!!

[Thumbwitch]

maybe the water blue?

[NigellaPleaseComeDineWithMe]

Front room and the interconnecting music room are the same blue - an F&B but can't tell you which right now!! The ceiling and paint work is the James white F&B. Door panels are in the same blue. Have a very large silver over mantle mirror too. Front room faces south so quite sunny.

Music room has Laura Ashley wallpaper where the blue almost matches the blue paint on one feature wall. Back room has lower ceiling and faces the garden and is teamed with black piano and soon a black chesterfield. That room has curtains to match the paper. Front room have no curtains just white slatted blinds.

Has been blue for a few years, before that a slightly darker Dulux heritage blue but quite similar in many ways!

[dischordant]

Dulux Egyptian Cotton, I only have this and white in my whole house.

[SelfconfessedSpoonyFucker]

Thumbwitch, ours is pale gold with sage green woodwork and trim, we are the lite version of you! Our ceilings are slightly off white.

Our kitchen/diner (all open plan with the living room) is duck egg blue.

[wfrances]

f&b shaded white which is grey/green in my room.
f&b all white woodwork and ceiling/above picture rail.

[MandaHugNKiss]

Currently renovating and living room is almost finished... it's dulux egyptian cotton diamond with trade white eggshell on all the woodwork (and there's a lot of wood...). Also some white on white kimono wallpaper (laura ashley). It's a very calm room. There are a few snaps on my profile although as I say, kinda 'work in progress'`

I love the idea of colour but when it comes to it, my heart is with neutrals

[ggirl]

We are about to paint living room a duck egg blue with white woodwork

I have been agonising over the right blue and think we have settled on F&B powder blue..ws inspired by this photo and it's a very light room
blue room

[ggirl]

sorry that link is to my pinterest board..it'snot letting me link to photo

[wendybird77]

We are painting at the moment, living and dining are in LG Clockface, the baseboards and door trim are in LG Lead and the doors will be in Dark Lead with black door furniture. I may paint the fireplace surround matt black if I can convince DH. We will be doing the study off the lounge in a dark blue - though still undecided on exact colour and if we had higher ceilings I'd do the lounge in a dark blue or dark grey as well.