Paint the arches blue or cream?

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Living room is being painted Inchyra blue by F&B

This is a throwaway name and will be binned after this so I'm posting photos of my actual room.

The sea scape will be moved to the middle of the wall instead of just using any nail we could! Also this photo was taken on the day we moved in so please don't judge the state!

So the room is going a dark teal blue, but DH wants to paint 3 walls a biscuit colour, and the big wall with the arches in Inchyra Blue. Now I'm agreeable to the biscuit colour in the livingroom.. however he wants to paint the recesses of the arches in a biscuit colour too

Will it look shit?

Go for the same blue.

@BitOfFun thanks! I keep telling him it'll be shit. I even drew it as best I could on paint to show how random it will look the annoying thing about them is the lack of shelves :(

Definitely go for the same blue.

All Blue

Why are you all up in the middle of the night!

Agree all one colour will be better though if you go with your DH's choice at least you can paint over once he sees how it looks.

Are you keeping the ceiling as it is?

Lizzie my Mum used to work a night shift from 11pm to 7am, not everyone has a 9-5 job.

Keep it all the same colour, don't make a feature out of the arches.

All blue

I was going to say, that seascape needs to be lower as well as centralised but then saw that you’d said about the existing nail

Another one for all blue! Cream arches will look a bit dated and naff.

Blue.

Either Crown or Dulux used to have a virtual paint your own room thingy on their website.
You could upload a photo and try colours on it. It's rubbish when it comes to deciding between 30 different shades of off white but good with strong colours

I think they’ll look better blue as well. Something else to consider... What colour are you planning the skirting boards and windowsill being? If you’re going to put shelves in, will they be the same colour as the rest of the woodwork, or match the wall behind them?

I think I would break it up but not with biscuit, with white of some description. My living room is all valspar tribal headdress so dark teal with built in shelves either side of the chimney which are white and it lifts the whole thing. I'll try to add a pic but the app usually refuses to let me.

All one colour.

Nope, have posted pics, said it had posted but can't see them!

Just looking again, and can see the side walls run directly into the alcoves. So you would be better painting the side walls biscuit all the way into the alcoves where the back and sides meet. Then take the dark blue from the join, across the whole breast wall, to where it meets the biscuit in the far corner.

If that makes sense.

Absolutely the same blue. Contrast partic a light colour would look 80s90s to me. Even more Late 60s tbh.

I think blue is best. Great idea, show us the pics afterwards

Thanks!

@JonHammIsMyJamm yeah I made DH put it up ASAP as I love it! And he literally just used the nail that was already there and it really annoys me that it's off centre 🤦‍♀️ it's a lovely piece of art though, the waves have glitter resin on the glass so in different light it looks like the waves are moving

If neither of you agree on the alcoves, you could pick the opposite wall to paint dark blue and have the alc9ve wall the biscuit.

Or just go the whole hog and paint the full room blue.

It will be easier to paint the Blue over the biscuit. Why not try, painting the alcoves biscuit, letting it dry, then paint the room in the blue, leaving the alcoves, looks good then you can just put a 2nd coat on, looks bad then you already have the blue paint out and ready to go, wont take 15 mins to do those alcoves.

We've just painted the arches in the living room uniformly along with the wall.

Arch and the alcove, sorry

What’s going in the alcoves? Shelves painted in the same blue would look fabulous.