Hi there, I'm new to the board and have recently fell in love with Farrow & Ball paints. It's to expensive for me to hire a consultant. We are refinishing my hardwood floors in either a natural or light cherry. My furniture is traditional-kind of eclectic. I have an open floor plan with the living room and dinning room that adjoin to one another with a slight asymetrical arch. My hallway is across from my living room. My living room faces west and my dinning room faces east. It's not the greatest amount of light. I currently have both the dinning room & living rm. yellow, so I would love a change. I am having extreme difficulty trying to pick out a color scheme that would flow. I would like to have a calming relaxed feeling in the rooms. The living rm. & dinning rm. are 16 ft. by 10ft totalling 32 by 20 ft.
I don't like whites as a choice for a room since it would not compliment my furniture. My couch is sage & my furniture is Queen Anne, kinda of a brownish red. I would love to send pix's but I don't know how.
I love color but I would love any suggestions, My hallway can't go too dark as it would look like a cave. The only 3 shades I would stay away from is any whites on walls, yellows & would prefer to stay away from any buff colors.
I was thinking of painting both living rm.& dinning rm hardwick white and the hallway elephant's breath and the base board and cove cornforth white. I'd love to have the adjoining rooms different colors but since it's pretty much an open floor plan it might turn out looking like a school. I'm hiring a painter and there's no money in the budget for mistakes and every painter I've asked won't advise.
The colors I love are calluna, borrowed light, blue ground but I think it might look to much like bedroom colors. I also like greys. I can only afford a few sample pots so I have to be pretty certain and I am all over the map.
I'm sorry for this ridiculously long letter but any suggestions would be so appreciated. Many many thanks.