I have to paint my living/dining room, and I’m stumped. My floors are a light oak laminate with mocha/multi throw rugs (some medium blue/rose colors mixed in), couches a medium brown, curtains in living room are ivory sheer, mocha roman shades over the french doors in the dining room (leading to the outside). I want to go with a light to medium beige brown, but am also thinking maybe a light khaki brown. Would that be too much brown? Current color is white.
Second question: This is an “L-shaped” living area. I do plan to painting the living room and the dining room the same color. There is one wall in the living room that connects to the upstairs hall (this is a bi-level home). I want to leave that white because I don’t want the same color going upstairs. Is that okay? I would have 3 walls of the living room color, and one white, and then 4 walls of the dining room (one shared living/dining room wall), the color.
It might be dull looking with that much brown. Do you have other colors thrown in like, pillows, picture frames, vases, etc? If not I would ditch the more brown idea. Maye paint one wall brown and then plan on decorating that wall with an accent color to liven things up.
My parent shave a muti-level home like yours and only have two walls in their home painted the same color. The other two are white and continue upstairs. It looks just fine.
thats fine just go with varing shades of browns, creams, tans etc. Then throw in some accent colors, such as red! The good thing about a nuetral palet, you get to change your accent colors!