What color on the walls matches a light green couch and grey kitchen?
colorisnotmything
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Hi!
I am terrible at colors and would like to get suggestions from the pros on what wall color would match a room with a light green couch and a kitchen in the background that’s grey (kitchen and living room share the same area and is where I will paint the walls).
Below are photos of my couch and the grey kitchen (you can disregard the furniture in the 2nd pic as they aren’t mine)
thank you a bunch in advance!
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I took a painted switchplate to the local big box store paint department, and they had a scanner to took a look and suggested a scheme to use. local paint stores can also help.
You can take a cushion with you, and whatever else you plan to integrate into the room.
(If you have a significant other, bring them, or give them the chance to express an opinion.)
They pay interior decorators big bucks to think about this stuff
I'm not a designer, but my own personal experiences in choosing paint colors became a lot easier when the I learned the concept of undertones.
Once you have determined what the undertones are in the existing space, it becomes much easier to match a color.
It looks to me, that the sofa, cabinets and the stone backsplash have different undertones, so it could take some effort to find a paint scheme that is compatible with them all.
https://www.thespruce.com/how-paint-color-undertones-work-797786
https://www.thespruce.com/choosing-interior-paint-colors-4011484
I also found a website of a designer who teaches other designers how to choose colors. The information in her blog has helped. Lots of interesting reading. What I found useful:
https://mariakillam.com/9neutralundertones/
https://mariakillam.com/magic-behind-getting-colour-right/
https://mariakillam.com/how-to-make-your-own-large-painted-sample-boards/
Good luck!
I'm not a designer, but my own personal experiences in choosing paint colors became a lot easier when the I learned the concept of undertones.
Once you have determined what the undertones are in the existing space, it becomes much easier to match a color.
It looks to me, that the sofa, cabinets and the stone backsplash have different undertones, so it could take some effort to find a paint scheme that is compatible with them all.
https://www.thespruce.com/how-paint-color-undertones-work-797786
https://www.thespruce.com/choosing-interior-paint-colors-4011484
I also found a website of a designer who teaches other designers how to choose colors. The information in her blog has helped. Lots of interesting reading. Ignore the sales pitch in the blogs if you wish, it is the process of selecting the undertones that I found most helpful. The little paint chips work for me until I find something close, then a few sample cans of the colors to test on the wall to confirm.
What I found useful:
https://mariakillam.com/9neutralundertones/
https://mariakillam.com/magic-behind-getting-colour-right/
https://mariakillam.com/how-to-make-your-own-large-painted-sample-boards/
Good luck!
I see the light green and light gray as muted colors of nature. I bit too muted for my liking. But if I were facing the same issue as yourself I would look at the natural world near me for the colors that look right there. Warm grays, darker but not too bright greens and brown; and again, on the warm side. And note that when you see bright primary colors in nature they are usually points of light, like flowers. Nature usually mutes colors unless brightness is a necessary evolved characteristic. And about the blue of the sky. It's a vibrant color that needs to stay in its own place, else it totally dominate the scene. It spreads into our view as reflections, here at the moment and just as quickly gone. Blue, used with other bright or dark colors it is much a mood creator and can soon become old in your everyday life.