Velvett....

[jenscats5]

When painting a room, say a living room, and having 1 wall painted X color (darker) and the other 2 walls + inside of arch painted Y color (slightly off white) .....

Is it better to have the accent wall the couch wall or the wall with the giant entertainment center?

 

[velvett]

Is it a square room or a rectangle?

 

[starfish]

I've been painting my place a lot. There are rules I should be following?


Oh Crap...lol

 

[jenscats5]

Is it a square room or a rectangle?

Well, my house is a rectangle......entry is in the living room, so the outside wall has a door & 2 windows......the room has 2 long walls that continue to the DR, which I use as a home office, divided by a large archway....

-[----]---[---]----[----]---
| |
| |
| C|
|T O|
|V U|
| C|
| H|
| |
| |
-~ ~- archway into next room

 

[jenscats5]

^^ Well, that didn't turn out at all.....Grrrrrrrrrr

 

[velvett]

So, is the entry on the north wall, sofa on the west, dining on the east and entertainment on the south?

entry and entertainment across from each other on the long walls
sofa and dining across on the shorter walls?

 

[jenscats5]

So, is the entry on the north wall, sofa on the west, dining on the east and entertainment on the south?

entry and entertainment across from each other on the long walls
sofa and dining across on the shorter walls?

Well I don't know the directions of the walls, but I'm going to assume here....

Door & windows on north walls.....couch on east, entertainment opposite on west....not really a south wall....more like an archway open into DR where there is no real DR use --> home office....

 

[SparkyGirl]

the size of the room matters... how big is the living room?

i think the inside of the arch should be different from the other walls, u need to define the space, and since the arch is basically the division to the home office u should have that a different color.

what I would do, keep the off white color inside of the arch and paint the living room in one color (the dark one) if your living room is not big actually the dark color is gonna make look bigger, because adds depth to the room (most people think that dark colors make the room small)... and also, the trim of the room should be in strong contrast with the wall, so dark walls very light color trim, could be off white too.

i hope that helps, i did a lot work with interior design, so i think i can help a little

 

[jenscats5]

the size of the room matters... how big is the living room?

i think the inside of the arch should be different from the other walls, u need to define the space, and since the arch is basically the division to the home office u should have that a different color.

what I would do, keep the off white color inside of the arch and paint the living room in one color (the dark one) if your living room is not big actually the dark color is gonna make look bigger, because adds depth to the room (most people think that dark colors make the room small)... and also, the trim of the room should be in strong contrast with the wall, so dark walls very light color trim, could be off white too.

i hope that helps, i did a lot work with interior design, so i think i can help a little

Hey thanks!! I was thinking of doing the trim in High Gloss white -- around the doors, windows, base & crown molding....

I was also considering painting one wall a dark-ish brown color and the other 2 walls a white with a tiny tint of brown (barely noticeable) and the inside of the arch the same white color....

I just don't know whether to paint the wall behind the couch the dark color or the wall behind the TV -- the TV & entertainment center take up most of the wall.....

 

[jenscats5]

Pic of the entertainment center