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What colour is your dining room?

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Y0rkshirelass · 20/03/2007 10:30

We want to redecorate our dining room so I'd like to have a nosey at what other MNers have done (virtually I mean, I won't be coming over to your house, don't worry ).
The carpet is a dark sand colour and all our furniture is farmhouse-effect pine in that room, so we'd need something that wouldn't clash with all the wood.
At the moment it is wallpapered, a pale cream below dado rail and the same colour but with little orange squares dotted around (not quite as gross as it sounds!) above the dado rail. It's ok, but it's the previous owners' decor and we want to put our own stamp on it.
It's quite a large room but it's dark as there is only a small-ish window.
What colour is your dining room?
I need to go and grab a handful of tester pots, any inspiration greatly appreciated. All I can think of is magnolia. Help!

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ChippyMinton · 20/03/2007 10:34

This colour was mentioned on a recent decorating thread - Crown Paints Egyptian Sand. Lovely yellowy shade. I have it my hall and was just off out to get a tester pot for my dinimg/living room which is - magnolia - yawn

nailpolish · 20/03/2007 10:35

chalky colours

blue and yellow

yellow is meant to be good for appetite or sommat

nailpolish · 20/03/2007 10:36

id get rid of the dado rail if i were you

BettySpaghetti · 20/03/2007 10:39

One wall is done in a sort of olive green colour and the other walls are in a very pale greeny/creamy colour.

It was a Dulux colour thats mixed for you -the colours are the darkest and lightest on the sample card where they give you 6 "versions" of the same colour from dark to light IYKWIM.

Enid · 20/03/2007 10:40

a kind of grey white with a darker grey woodwork

deaconblue · 20/03/2007 10:42

Ours is classic cream - Homebase own. In fact most of our house is classic cream. If you go for something plain you can change table cloth, ornaments etc whenever you fancy a colour change

CODalmighty · 20/03/2007 10:43

haevnt got one

Y0rkshirelass · 20/03/2007 10:43

eek, not sure what will come off with it if we take the dado rail off!
Liking the yellowy sandy idea.
I'm wondering whether to do it magnolia and then paint some really funky bright canvasses for the wall, with yellows.

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CODalmighty · 20/03/2007 10:44

( btu everythign in our house is white so i odnt really knwo why i am ont he thread)

saadia · 20/03/2007 10:45

our whole downstairs is crazy cream

Y0rkshirelass · 20/03/2007 10:47

LOL cod.
I'm just not brave enough for colour, my mind keeps wandering to white or cream - as shoppingbagsundereyes says, you can just change your room accessories whenever you want a change of colour.

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sophiewd · 20/03/2007 10:49

Cream with dark red curtains to give some colour

Waswondering · 20/03/2007 10:49

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ledodgy · 20/03/2007 10:50

I'd go one colour having different colours above and below the dado rail is too 90s. I wouldn't remove the dado rail either as it's part of the character of the house.

Y0rkshirelass · 20/03/2007 10:52

Thanks for the ideas,
I wonder if there are websites with colour charts, I'm off to google......

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ChippyMinton · 20/03/2007 14:09

I went to buy a matchpot of egyptian sand and bought 10 litres of it instead because crown emulsion is on special offer in focus, ending today.

nailpolish · 20/03/2007 14:12

dulux have a very good website

dmo · 20/03/2007 14:15

ours is cream with a glass table and black chairs
we have a black fruitbowl and a black vase with plastic white lilys in
we have a wooden floor and white woodwork
on the chimmiey breast it is red
we also have a black leather sofa and two red/cream cushions

nikkie · 20/03/2007 21:13

CReam and red furniture is dark wood,and a bit of a mixture as it was all hand me downs

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