How would you decorate this room?

[AllTheSamples]

We have been looking for a paint colour for our kitchen/dining room and are really struggling to find something that works in both the kitchen and the dining room as the lighting is so different.

I like bold greens in the kitchen but they look very dark and depressing in the dining room. I'm starting to think we need 2 colours but how would you go about dividing the room? Would you carry on the kitchen colour between and around the units that are technically in the dining room?

Or only do one wall in the dining room the same colour as the kitchen to bring it together? The dining room keeps going to the right of that picture so it is quite a big area.

I'm clueless and need to decide imminently. Help!

Some paint companies do the same shade but different intensities. So for example, Little Greene do French Grey from light to dark. So although you’re using different shades, they all tone. Paint and Paper a library do the same.

I’ve got the same issue and am finding it hard to know what to do. I’d be tempted to go with MrsRachelDanvers idea of different intensity of same shade. I think a different colour completely could look disjointed and jarring if there’s no obvious place to break the two areas.

I've just decorated a kitchen with diner opening onto it and did as PP suggested. Stronger green in kitchen area, much lighter version of same in dining area, which is beautiful as it shifts depending on the light from a sort of pistachio ice cream to a smoky putty colour and in between an eau de nil. The kitchen stays the same strong green. It has had loads of compliments - even from strangers delivering stuff.

Thank you all I was actually considering F&B French Grey in the kitchen, where do I find a lighter shade of it, would it be called the same? (Literally need to decide tonight so in a bit of a panic now!)

I otherwise thought we could do a complementary neutral in the dining room (they often suggest an off-white colour to go with each colour), but no matter which way we look at it there is no obvious way to divide the room.

@TotalOverhaul which green paint did you go with for this (if you don't mind sharing)

Thanks!

Otherwise we're going to play it safe with Eddy everywhere but it is quite boring in the kitchen and won't really do it justice.

I would personally install a breakfast bar opposite the kitchen units that are in the dining room, to tie them into kitchen. I would then start the differing shade of paint on the area of wall where you have used the test pots.
The area around the now more marked kitchen area can be painted in the kitchen colours.

Alternately you can use a bolder, darker colour throughout and use artwork/ other accents to lighten and brighten the overall feel of the dining area.

I think some sort of deep blue or forest green would look lovely. They are a bit bolder but I think could work. If you're selling then it might be better to use a lighter palette.

Paint the dining room walls the same colour as the kitchen units.( which are lovely btw) Then you can use a different colour for the kitchen walls (which won’t be a big area. ) Then you could pick up the kitchen wall colour in rugs and / or curtains in the dining room , which will tie it together but keep a feeling of transition.

ps aren’t you going to have tiling or some form of splash guard besides the upstands? You must be very clean cooks.

@AllTheSamples Paint & Paper Library Willow 111 for the dining area and V for the kitchen. They make lovely creamy paint. Very easy to apply.

This would be my preferred option but then in the dining room the space between the units would be the same colour as the units and I'm not sure if that's weird?

Ps: we do have tiles in the kitchen, you can see them if you zoom in :)

TheF&B website shows Eddy as an accent colour for French Gray. French Gray is my 1st choice for the kitchen but hate it in the dining room, Eddy is my first choice for the dining room but I don't really like it in the kitchen so maybe using them together can work!