Paint colour for living room - choice of two - help

[Pippielk]

Hi

I’m trying to select a colour paint for our NE facing living room. Was going to do a feature wall of a dark colour but Hi

I’m trying to select a colour paint for our NE facing living room. Was going to do a feature wall but of something dark but we don’t have a chimney breast and I think a think just painting one whole Wall will look funny.
I have a dark teal velvet sofa and a greeny/blue sofa and I am worried if I choose a dark blue - the teal sofa will just blend into the background.
So have narrowed it down to f&b de Nimes or f&b vert de Terre.
But the greeny sofa might just merge into the very de Terre wall.

We mostly use the room in the evening and always have a blind down so the room is usually quite dark even in the day time - I just pulled up the blinds for the photos. I was going to do a dark feature wall but we don’t have a chimney breast and I think just painting one whole wall will look funny.
I have a dark teal velvet sofa and a greeny/blue sofa and I am worried if I choose a dark blue - the teal sofa will just blend into the background.
So have narrowed it down to the dark blue/green f&b de Nimes or the lighter green f&b vert de Terre (on the a4 pages stuck on the wall).
But the greeny sofa might just merge into the vert de Terre wall....

We mostly use the room in the evening as it’s our ‘good’ room and always have a blind down so the room is usually quite dark (even in the day time) - I just pulled up the blind for the photos.

Dh wants to go for the lighter colour but he’d be happy if the whole house was magnolia...

I have bought so many testers that I am worried I am over thinking things now....could also choose something like settling plaster but really need some advice before I go near a paint shop again...

I'd go for a pastel pink.
The colours you have chosen are a bit drab.

Eek, yes that Peignoir does not look pleasant at all 😬

Instead of thinking of the actual colour on the wall, what is the overall look you’re trying to create? Is it warm and cosy, or more of a calm feel? I think the French grey is a better match with your sofa than the Terre Vert, but I don’t think either colour would make the room feel particularly cosy, especially as it’s north facing. But if that’s not a priority for you, that obviously doesn’t matter 🤔

If you’re looking for a pink, there are much nicer pinks available than Peignoir. I have Pink Ground in my north facing bedroom, which has a lovely warm glow to it, even in cold winter light. I’d hesitate to suggest you get yet another tester, but I think that colour may well go with your sofa 🙈

Some examples for you - I think the picture with the sofa is Pink Ground, the one with the chairs is definitely Setting Plaster

Not sure if this helps, or makes things even more complicated 🙃

Crazzycat - I’m trying to have warm and cozy...hence the de nemes and why I was trying to stay away from pastel colours. It’s a room where we go to relax, watch TV, have coffee and chat with friends etc. (whenever we can sociliase with people in our homes again) - and somewhere we don’t use much during the day time as we have another family/play/messy room to hang out in.

I like the pink pastels with the teal through but that’s more the calming look - but tbh I’m so sick of this process of picking a colour that I’ll settle now for anything that looks ok.

Mike uniform Mike - I see those colours on pininterest and they look so stylish but will try a light pink to see how it looks.

I went out at lunch to get calamine and pink ground but the local shop didn’t have them and had no stock to make a colour match - have to go further afield but I’ll post after I try them....and hopefully I can find a nice warm coral too.

The lighter one. X

Went off and got more testers which are on wall from left to right: calamine, dulux (jungle ginger 4 -such a name 😮) pink ground.

I think pink ground looks the best - it’s warm and while it’s pastel and far removed from what I originally thought - think it’s probably the best choice. Good to know too crazycat - you think it looks warm in a north facing room. At least I have lots of samples for picking colours for the the rest of the house and will try some of the darker bold colours in some other rooms,

I like Pink Ground.

The darker ones all look a bit like you're trying to make the room something it's not. Your aim is something that makes you smile, a room you want to be in. Not something that looks good on Instagram, but is pretty miserable to sit in!

I like the de Nimes & I think yes - the contrast in texture would look really lovely as Colette100 said similar idea to Karcheer's 3rd photo. But I would do the colour all over . I am sure it will look lovely whatever

I like the peachy ones

I like the Jungle one and de Nimes and definitely would paint all walls

Mil has the exact dark one and the room is very dark all the time, a feature wall like you thought might be better?

Sorry, just saw your update, love the one you like!

I have a room with similar coloured sofas and the walls are Farrows Cream but from your choices I like Pink Ground

How about a wallpaper, so you can still have your favourite teal/green colours but add a bit of contrast with different colours?

I really like the pink one. You can use colored roller blinds.

like that:
www.modaper.com/duz-simli-stor-perdeler/