Dear AT,
We're moving, and our new landlord has given us free reign to paint.
We've chosen colors for all of the rooms (dark grey with blue undertones for our bedroom, a bright grass green with yellow undertones for our daughter's room, and a warm off white for the main living room).
We're stymied by the dining room, however (which is linked by a door from the living room) in part because of the three-part molding configuration...
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Removing the molding is not an option.
Two walls of the dining room have large windows, so there will be a ton of natural light.
If anyone has any ideas, tips, or pictures of a similar configuration, we would very much appreciate it!!!
Thanks! Jessica
The photo of the deep underwater blue in ColorTherapy looks like the finished version of your photo.
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two tone? i'd work with the molding... it's cool.
Ceiling color comes down to top molding, bottom is you accent color and middle is a lighter shade of that color.
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Thanks for the ideas so far! -Jessica
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i have a similar moulding situation. In my case i painted ceiling colour to first set, gray over first moulding to second set, left the bottom of the wall white.
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Nice tan: Cotswold Breeches (RL)
Nice off white: Montauk Driftwood (RL)
I'm also a sucker for Restoration Silver Sage, but it is kind of 1999.
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Restoration Hardware's Silver Sage might be good below the chair rail; and I think they have a blue that might work between the chair rail and the picture rail, but I would definitely leave the moldings and everything above the picture rail (that top molding), white.
That will be kind of light and airy (the blue) and kind of grounded (the green). Also, that kind of combination seems to be kind of "in" right now and wouldn't be all that hard to find napkins and stuff to match.
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