CHI Good Questions: Paint Color Change?

Brie sent in a good question: Hello AT Chicago! Can you help me? We recently ordered new furniture and with the addition of these pieces, I'm wondering if I should consider a paint color change. The walls in my living room/dining room are green (shown below the jump) -two different shades. I'm not exactly loving the green in the dining room but there's no way to avoid it because the long wall from the LR flows in to the DR.

I'm particularly drawn to what I consider a very sophisticated and modern neutral palette found in this house tour: Karla's Asian Transitional Home. Does the AT community have any ideas for how to tone down all the green without eliminating the green paint all together? ....

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Should I paint the long wall a different accent color? Or should I get rid of all the green walls and only have one as an accent? The long wall is seen in the photo with the picture collage. I've also included the existing color palette. The look I want to achieve is clean, warm and modern but still organic. Thanks for your help!

Please share your thoughts and ideas with Brie in the comments below...

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Those two greens are too similar to have both. Makes it look like a mistake.

If you are not loving the green, just repaint.

posted by patrick (the other one) on April 18th 2008 at 12:17pm
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http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/painting-fixing-repair/sf-good-questions-should-i-repaint-my-livingdining-room-047520

posted by gretchen on April 18th 2008 at 12:19pm
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(And I know "just repaint" is easier said than done!)

posted by patrick (the other one) on April 18th 2008 at 12:23pm
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i like the green in your LR. maybe keep the one wall behind the couch, and repaint the other walls a neutral shade?

posted by selena on April 18th 2008 at 12:27pm
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I had a similar but different problem a few weeks ago. I painted a wall and immediately freaked out. The lovely people here at AT talked me down off the ledge and now that I have lived with it for a while - I really love it! But it sounds like you have lived with this paint color for a while and are starting to hate it. I plan on posting updated pictures soon to my flickr account.

In that case nothing you can do will change the color - I say if it irks you, you might as well save yourself the agony and just repaint. I know painting sucks but you will be so happy when you are done. If you plan on staying in your home for a while - it will be worth the effort.

posted by cvsbean on April 18th 2008 at 12:38pm
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We already covered this exact same person's room a couple weeks ago...

posted by bepsf on April 18th 2008 at 1:09pm
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strange

posted by BSmeltz on April 18th 2008 at 1:31pm
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Brie must have written to both sites:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/painting-fixing-repair/sf-good-questions-should-i-repaint-my-livingdining-room-047520

posted by leslie on April 18th 2008 at 1:36pm
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sorry for the repeat - this question has been in the AT:Chicago question queue and I must have missed it on the SF site

posted by janel on April 18th 2008 at 1:45pm
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Sorry about that folks.

posted by BSmeltz on April 18th 2008 at 4:01pm
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I would say paint the wall behind the couch that lighter green you like (upper left corner) and paint the other walls in the room an EVEN lighter green... a green 4-5 shades lighter than your accent wall.

posted by emily s. on April 19th 2008 at 7:31am
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