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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Those two greens are too similar to have both. Makes it look like a mistake.
If you are not loving the green, just repaint.
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http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/painting-fixing-repair/sf-good-questions-should-i-repaint-my-livingdining-room-047520
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(And I know "just repaint" is easier said than done!)
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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?
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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.
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We already covered this exact same person's room a couple weeks ago...
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strange
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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
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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
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Sorry about that folks.
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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.
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