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Decorating help
Hey ladies! DH and I want to start painting our nursery over Feb. break (YAY!). We decided that we want to use 2 colors, brown on the bottom and green on the top. I am wondering, do we split the walls 50/50, like mid-way up, or more brown on bottom less green on top or more green on top, and less brown on the bottom?
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Re: Decorating help
If you're doing it with a chair rail, I prefer roughly 1/3, 2/3. You rarely see chair rails at the halfway height, except for in some nurseries where the color dividing line is over top of the crib. What happens when the baby out grows the crib, though? Then the line is kind of floating above the bed and isn't 'grounded,' you know? I also think a lower chair rail with a lighter color on top makes the room look bigger than when the chair rail is higher up.
The chair rail in our dining room is about 3' up from the floor, giving us about 3' of green and 5' of cream:
That's pretty standard.
(Yeah, the green carpet's brutal. I know.)
In a nursery, I would definitely want to have less brown than green, too, because the brown's likely to be a lot darker than the green. Having the chair rail set lower than halfway up the wall would help with that. A little of a dark color goes a long way.
If you are using a chair rail I wouldn't go 50/50 because I don't think it would look as nice. I agree with the PP and love the look of your dining room in the picture.
I have a friend that just did that in their nursery and they put stripes of different sizes on the top too. It's gorgeous!