The Best Living Room Paint Colors
What Color Should I Paint My Living Room?
Living rooms are the social areas of the home and hold the greatest opportunity to communicate your personality and design style. Unlike kitchens, where most furnishings are fixed, this space offers movement and flexibility. For this reason, color palettes chosen for living rooms are often more varied and dynamic than elsewhere in the home. A chance to let your creativity shine!
The Serene Living Room
Caramel Kiss, Pine Trail, and Slow Dance set the right tone for a comforting and serene living room. This look of ease and charm is enhanced with green-based browns, and a warm caramel, creating a sense of natural comfort and quietude.
The Elegant Living Room
Deeper, more saturated aqua paint colors like Kingston Aqua add elegance to spaces with contemporary décor, especially when combined with classic shades of off-white, sand, or black. The light brown shades of Cold Foam and Seriously Sand enhance the richness of this aqua hue
The Warm Living Room
Rich, spiced yellow paint colors like Allspice support a friendly, welcoming, and warm-hearted atmosphere. Use the accents of Warm Pastels like Dusty Yellow, and China White to keep the look charming and ideal for a classic or traditional style home.
The Organized Living Room
For a more masculine look, combine the blue-gray of Feldspar with the dark blue of Blue Fjord, a color that naturally discourages chaos. An off-white paint color, like Gypsum, will keep the look from feeling overly dark and somber.
The Cozy Living Room
Creamy off-whites are open and welcoming, soft greens evoke a natural quality, and rich reds like Cinnabar are robust and heart-warming. Combining these paint hues produces a cozy, relaxed, and inviting energy. Use off-whites like French Gray Linen and Cold Foam to balance the other colors, for an uplifting yet soothing atmosphere.
The Midwestern Living Room
China White is a pale, neutral, and slightly darker white paint that is great for interior walls. This white paint color gives you many options for accent colors.
For a lightly darker look, Flagstone is a great neutral option for your project. It falls into the category of “greige.” In some light, it will look beige, but in others lighting it will look grayer.
The Modern Farmhouse Living Room
Gray Frost is elegant and calming - a perfect balance for a modern farmhouse look. It is a neutral, blue-tone powerhouse, blending kindly with both light and dark colors, as well as all types of textures. If you are looking for a bolder color that isn’t overpowering, then Steeple Gray is a solid choice. It is a deeper blue hue that also makes a great accent color for Gray Frost.
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