Perhaps your home’s style is a little outdated, and you want to work with great painters who can improve its overall style. That’s a great choice because, according to House Grail, 88% of people who paint an interior room have a stronger designer to be home and love their house more. We strongly suggest that you start with your living room to ensure that you get the best results. Here’s a guide towards choosing the best interior paint colors for your living room and a few suggestions for your home.
Pay Attention to Your Decor
Before choosing a paint color, it’s important to look at the rest of your home’s decor and the living room’s overall style. After all, it’s a lot easier to adjust your paint color to your couch, upholstery, area rugs, pillows, throw blankets, and art than it is to take the opposite step. There are a few choices you can make here, including choosing complementary colors or hues that contract with your style.
Complementary colors make the most sense for most people because they can easily fit into a room’s design. Neutral hues like white and gray are particularly popular because you can integrate them into your room’s overall aesthetic without causing an excessive eyesore. While they might seem a little boring at first, they make it easier to adjust the rest of your room without worrying about any issues.
For example, imagine that you plan on upgrading your furniture, rugs, or other areas of the home. Neutral colors should blend well with just about any new style you add, which can save you and the painter time while minimizing stylistic conflicts. That said, brighter and more vibrant hues work well if you have a specific personality and style you want for your living room. How do you choose which works best?
The truth is, there’s no right answer. The choice you make has to be right for you and what you like! It’s your home and your living room, after all: you can create whatever look that you want to achieve with a variety of different effects. That makes it critical to do your research and figure out if you want to go a little wild or if you’d rather have a softer and gentler look that doesn’t overstimulate your mind too much. Let’s take a deeper look at this topic in the next section.
Decide How Wild You Want to Get
As we suggested in the last section, you have a big choice to make here: do you want to go a little wild and create exciting and vibrant tones, or are you okay with a milder approach? Neutral hues often work best in living rooms because they feel more welcoming. However, you might want an exciting living room that draws the eye and engages your visitors and yourself. It all depends on a few different things.
For example, how much natural light do you get in your living room? Is it located near a lot of windows on the west or east and brightens up well throughout the day? Does it get little natural light and need a little brightening with the paint? These factors are important to consider because a lighter painting hue could help overcome the lack of natural light and give your home the attractive and engaging look you want.
When your room doesn’t get a lot of natural light, you should try lighter colors like white, soft gray, yellow, green, or even pink. These help brighten a room and make it more stimulating. However, these tones in a well-lit living room can become very overwhelming. In this situation, you can try darker shades, like deep-ocean blue, burgundy, and even black (if you want to get intense about your living room’s style).
Whatever choice you make here, it’s critical to talk with painters who understand every step you can make. These professionals can give you the support you need to make smart, informed, and effective painting choices. There’s no shame in reaching out for help here. In the long run, it’s a better idea, especially if you’re struggling with color choices and worry that you’ll make a serious mistake here.
Establish the Room’s Main Color
It’s important to know that your living room might have multiple colors that could influence its overall style. The primary color should be one that you know you’ll enjoy looking at for a long time. After all, you’ll be making most of the walls this color, and it should reflect your taste. Anchor points, like your walls, floors, main furnishings, and decorative items, all affect which color you pick.
Typically, many people keep walls fairly neutral and use rugs and other items to add the most color accents they want. Rugs are particularly nice because they’re easy to integrate into a home and produce a unique and attractive look. Even better, you can personalize them to include varying shades and textures of colors and create a fascinating look for your personal needs.
That said, we also suggest focusing mostly on your painting and integrating things like trimming that keeps your home appealing. The trimming should either complement or contrast with your main color. For example, if you have a bright red that catches the eye, you can balance it with black trim that calms you down a little. The goal should be to create unique and appealing textures and hues.
Lastly, make sure that you balance it out with various secondary shades that make your room stand out. As we’ve hinted at previously, it’s good to either complement or contrast with your main color. Don’t go too wild here! Mixing something like yellow with black is likely to be a little ugly. You want hues that still go together, even if you’re going for a contrasting approach. Create a contrast by adding various textural elements or lightening and darkening various hues to keep them attractive.
Consider New Color Suggestions
Still on the fence about which color scheme you want to use for your home? Read this section to learn more about colors like bold red. When maroon, berry, wine, and burgundy create a sophisticated and elegant room that makes your home more attractive and traditional. However, other colors like pink and orange create an earthy style that blends well with browns, peaches, and other unique colors. Bright yellows can particularly capture your attention and make a room more open and appealing. Even better, dark gold provides an elegant shade for your home.
Other colors to consider include emerald, gray, sage, navy, turquoise, icy blue, purpose fusion, pastels, and even browns. Don’t think that their selection here means that you have to choose these colors. Simply use them as a springboard to launch your awesome new living room style! Just remember that your paint style is likely going to need to last for years to come. That’s why we urge people to avoid buying impulsively or going with the crowd. Go with your heart and your taste, and you simply can’t go wrong with your upgrade!
This information should make it easier for you to find a color that makes sense for your home’s unique needs. Just as importantly, it can help you work with painters who understand your taste and who will provide the support you deserve to paint your home properly. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you’re interested in this upgrade process. We’ll do whatever we can to ensure that you get the fantastic living room style that makes sense for your home and its personalized look. Reach out to Fullmer Home Finishing & Design today.
