DH and I recently moved into a new home and are getting to grips with redecorating. At the moment our living room is distinctly uninspiring- white walls, boring grey plastic blind, boring grey carpet.
We want to paint one of the walls a different colour, just to make the room a bit less dull and flat. I’ve attached a photo of the room from the old sales listing online, so this isn’t how we’ve got it furnished. The furniture is a mixture of DH’s old ugly black Ikea furniture consisting of a dining table and chairs in the corner to the left of the photo, and the TV on a low stand in the corner in the middle, and a small coffee table. We’ve also got my antique bureau, a beige sofa and an Ikea poang chair with the hillared dark blue cover. We’ll replace the blinds and the black furniture in due course but we’re stuck with it for the time being.
The wall we want to paint is the one on the left hand side. All the walls are blank at the minute but we’ll put up pictures etc eventually, and I’m hoping to get a Leonid Afremov painting to go above the radiator, which we’re going to get a white cover for.
Originally we were going to go for a nice deep blue colour, but the thing is the window is north and slightly west facing and doesn’t really get any direct sunlight, so it’s never very bright in there, and my concern was that a dark and cool toned colour might make the room feel cold. So now we’re thinking a warmer tone would be better, perhaps a shade of red?
Any and all suggestions welcome and appreciated!