Could this room take a darker colour? And, if so, which colour? (Pic included)

[BoogleMcGroogle]

Good morning. We recently moved and this is going to be our dining room (excise the boxes!). It will have a dresser, piano and antique dining set. Maybe oak floor. The large window faces south, the other east. There is a chimney breast with a lovely wood burner. I am not very brave with colour, but have a feeling this room could take a darker colour. The rest of our house is creams, greens, muted pinks. It's a large, rural Victorian cottage ( actually two knocked through and extended). And thoughts or ideas would be really helpful. 🙂

If you don't want total dark colour you could add a picture rail a foot below the ceiling and have dark below, white above. That would suit the Victorian era and also add some character as there's no coving. Perhaps a mid to dark green, not as dark as emerald, or a mustard?

I really like the idea of a picture rail as the room does rather lack decoration at the moment. Mid green is what we were thinking too. I've had my eye on Farrow and Ball breakfast room green which I loved in our last house.

We having card room green in a similar facing room and get a lot of compliments
Its not as scary as the tester card makes it look!
I was amazed at how cheap giving and picture rails were we had our handmade and fitted also a ceiling rose.

Green came to mind for me too. Lucky you- what a lovely room!

Ooh, a ceiling rose! Coving too perhaps?

Is this something a 'normal' decorator could do?

I'll also get a tester pot for card room green.

I'd say green too. But a paler sagey green. With dusky pink in any fabrics for soft furnishings/accessories?

@BoogleMcGroogle

Ooh, a ceiling rose! Coving too perhaps?

Is this something a 'normal' decorator could do?

I'll also get a tester pot for card room green.

So we had the guys that supplied the coving and roses fit them too. Then had the decorator paint it. It is super simple of you know what you are doing but i wouldn't trust a handy man to do it.

We painted our living room and dining room (lead into each other) this colour www.colourtrend.ie/product/long-weekend/ and I absolutely love it. We live in a house that started off as an old 2 room cottage and has had a few iterations with different parts added on so it’s a bit quirky. Was going to stick with pale, neutral colours but my decorator persuaded me to ‘go bold’ and I absolutely love it.

PS our dining room windows face south and living room windows face east

Hard to say. Try the dulux visualizer app to give you an idea! I really wanted pale yellow in my hallway, but it looked awful... I ended up with blue on one wall and white on the rest which I would have never have thought to try, without playing around, and I love it!

We've got valspar Marsh Green in our dining room which has a south facing window in the same location as yours. It is a sort of muddy dark sage but changes colour depending on the time of day. In the evenings it looks lovely a moody and dark which is nice with soft lighting and the blinds pulled down. The blind is william morris strawberry thief, I think the colourway is called duck egg but the wall colour pulls out the green. The strawberries are a deep pink so have got a big pink traditional rug under the dining table so the room isn't too sombre!

Oh yes and the ceilings are off white, with ceiling roses and coving to come at some point (when we can muster the courage to get involved with DIY mitred corners!)

Your new home sounds lovely, congratulations!