What color to paint the bedrooms?

GracefulMeadow86

Hey ladies - need your design expertise!

Once we finish cleaning up our spare (well, actually master) bedroom and finishing up the wall we had to replace, we want to paint, but im at a loss for what color!

Here's what we have in our house right now.

Kitchen - light gray

Dining room - a peachy color that is very light but looks great in the room (esp. with orange curtains!!!)

Living room - a yummy tan/brown color (actually call Antique Leather). its so nice and warm

Hallways/Downstairs bath - a neutral off white (maybe Navajo white or something?)

Upstairs bath - a color that reminds me of light milk chocolate

Now here comes the issue. Upstairs bedrooms are not painted anything special yet. We have this bedding set that we are currently using, so we thought that maybe a pale blue in our room would be good, or a nice medium gray. this is technically the guest bedroom, but we're using it right now for the master.

So what color do you think we should make our other room based on the other colors we have in our house? its a 1946 cape so we dont want to do anything too outrageous, and all the trim will eventually be white so it pops nicely. Both bedrooms have the annoying slanty ceilings.

DaisyKD

I love your bedspread!  I would probably paint three walls a medium grey and then have an accent wall the light blue color.  Or do the three walls an off white with a blue accent wall, that way if you every wanted to change out the accent wall it'd be easy and you'd still the three walls the neutral color.

Our two spare bedrooms we just painted a neutral off white color-boring but easy to change in the future if needed. 

Since you seem to have a lot of tans/browns I think a light tan color would look great, still neutral but also having some warmth to it.

Have fun! 

ellen73

I had fun picking out our bedroom colors!   There are so many places you can look- including the decorating & renovating board.   There is something called the nestie paint bio that is a compilation of lots of rooms sorted by color (real rooms in real houses). Also, I really like Sherwin Willliams paint viewer... and I wanted all three rooms to flow b/c I eventually want to paint the hallway to blend in to, so I did this:

I'll update it with the picture at work  

lburkey21

I can't see the pic (stupid work!) but I like the idea of a light blue accent wall with the other walls being medium gray.

What about doing the other room in like a golden/wheat color. Still pretty neutral but adding some warmth and color that would be easy to build off of.

RonCourt

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Good luck!

GracefulMeadow86

thanks ladies,

im not a big fan of accent walls in a such a traditional style house, so id prefer all the walls to be the same color.

the extra bedroom is total blank canvas which im having trouble with. maybe yellow would work, but i was considering that for our hallways at some point...so idk. maybe i should find a bedding that i like for the extra bedroom and then work off of that...

im kinda sick of brown, seeing as 1 HUGE room downstairs is brown and the upstairs bath is brown.

GracefulMeadow86

hmm i do like how this room looks. maybe a very pale beige/tan would be nice

http://www3.jcpenney.com/jcp/X6.aspx?GrpTyp=STY&ItemID=1a8d2f5&DeptID=70750&CatID=72384&SO=0&PCatID=70750&CatSel=4294953363%7ccomforters+%2b+bedspreads&NOffset=0&Ne=4294957900+5+877+1014+1031+1007+6+8+904+18+833&pagesize=1&CatTyp=SAL&Dep=BEDDING&N=4294953363&Pcat=BEDDING&Cat=View+All+Sales&Nao=0&PSO=0&CmCatId=homepage|70808|72384

lburkey21

GracefulMeadow86:

thanks ladies,

im not a big fan of accent walls in a such a traditional style house, so id prefer all the walls to be the same color.

the extra bedroom is total blank canvas which im having trouble with. maybe yellow would work, but i was considering that for our hallways at some point...so idk. maybe i should find a bedding that i like for the extra bedroom and then work off of that...

im kinda sick of brown, seeing as 1 HUGE room downstairs is brown and the upstairs bath is brown.

That might be your best bet - it will help narrow down the choices for sure.

I really like that comforter you posted - I'd go with a beige if you got it. Then you can accent it with some cool prints. Maybe bring in that lighter green from that accent pillow more.

GracefulMeadow86

oo or this one, since hte previous one i posted didnt have good reviews about the actual color when it was recieved (not true to picture!)

http://www3.jcpenney.com/jcp/X6E.aspx?GrpTyp=ENS&ItemID=18fc4fa&DeptID=70750&CatID=72384&SO=0&PCatID=70750&CatSel=4294953363%7ccomforters+%2b+bedspreads&NOffset=0&Ne=4294957900+5+877+1014+1031+1007+6+8+904+18+833&pagesize=1&CatTyp=SAL&Dep=BEDDING&N=4294953363&Pcat=BEDDING&Cat=View+All+Sales&Nao=0&PSO=0&CmCatId=homepage|70808|72384

GracefulMeadow86

What about these?

 1)

2)

3)...but it might be too bold for me

4) 

lburkey21

I like 1 and 4 the best. I think 1 is my favorite though. I see a pretty white room with lime green accents and black and white pictures on the walls.

Or with 4 you could go for walls that are the same yellow as in the comforter and then keep the decor fairly black/white/gray.

ellen73

GracefulMeadow86:

thanks ladies,

im not a big fan of accent walls in a such a traditional style house, so id prefer all the walls to be the same color.

the extra bedroom is total blank canvas which im having trouble with. maybe yellow would work, but i was considering that for our hallways at some point...so idk. maybe i should find a bedding that i like for the extra bedroom and then work off of that...

im kinda sick of brown, seeing as 1 HUGE room downstairs is brown and the upstairs bath is brown.

That is exactly what I did.  We got our master bedding for the wedding,  I really like my old comforter (just simple white/light blue design), and I found a print I like to make bedding for the third room (or can just buy it from ikea).  I did a mood board kind of thing- just to make sure the colors meshed together: 

KellyA724

I agree with Lauren - I love 1 and 4.

With 4, you could also do gray walls and accent with yellow.

azel530

I like #1 best.  But if you want to go with the bedspread you have you could to white bead-board on the bottom and do the top a light blue or gray. 

JMU_Bride09

I would do something in the brown family!  I'm a fan of darker paint, but you said you don't want to do anything too drastic, so you could always do a lighter shade.  And I think it would play off of your comforter nicely and still match the little door off to the right of your bed.

ohioloveyou

I am no help...I like them all.  :-)