Wall Color For Master Bedroom

I am going to paint our master bedroom and I need advice. Right now it's a really nice green, looks great but it needs to be refreshed. Pretty sure it's the original paint from 2006 when the house was built. (We bought it six months ago.)

The new color craze is gray and I'm really liking it. Trouble is, there's too many shades to pick from. Yes, yes I know....50 shades....ha ha. Seriously, I have tons of color swatches and still can't decide. I would like to stay away from the blue tints, but anything else is okay. The north wall is all windows with crisp white trim. Doors, floor boards and crown molding are all crisp white too. Hard wood flooring is medium oak.

Anyone have suggestions?

Beige? Nice contrast to the white?

Get some of the small 'sample' bottles of paint and paint 2'x2' swatches on the wall and live with them for a couple of days.

We did the same when we had to chose what color of white (I think there are about 100!) as our baseboards, trim, doors, etc. are stained wood and it was a matter of which shade of white for the walls.

Have fun.

Ingrid

I usually paint a slightly darker or lighter wall from the other 3 walls --- same color - just darker or light depending o the light in the room and the shape of the room ... darker wall come in ==> makes the room smaller (more intimate). A lighter wall puts "light" into a section which you always feel as though you should be turning on lights .. to make it more alive.

I look for the bedcovering I find attractive and to my taste. I look for a rug ... I have ALL hardwood floors (house came that way) and I had at least 5-6 large oriental rugs BEFORE this house - now I swear I have 15 room size all wool oriental rugs... bedroom one house; LR this house. I even have wool rugs in the eat-in kitchen of the house (nothing like bear feet on a good wool rug).

Decide on the Bedroom furniture style (most likely keeping what you have) and take a small drawer with you when looking at colors ... you can not believe how many times people pick a color and paint the room ... and it looks BAD with the furniture and the room's light.

And think about it for a good 2 weeks before buying the paint and doing the work (and keep looking while waiting).

When I paint my own house, I seldom think about changing it. It is IT and done once. And I am currently been 9+ years in this house.

I went nuts with this as well. I eventually decided on a putty color for the wall and neutral light berber carpet and a dark gray bed ensemble. I have a lot of windows in the room and heavy dark pine wood furniture I couldn't afford to replace. Our moldings are all stained oak. I now wish I had made the walls darker, or at least the rug darker.

In other rooms- depending on the shape and size and lighting, I will paint 2 walls the same color and the 2 other walls a different color- sometimes just a shade difference and sometimes totally different colors, but ones that compliment each other-nothing dramatic.

I sometimes will tape the samples up on the wall and look at them in different light. I have been through this with grays and whites and even blacks! Makes me crazy and I still am always second guessing my decisions. I finally went with colors like "Simply White" or just plain "Black" because I couldn't take it anymore and said "enough is enough!". LOL!

My son rehabs houses downtown and flips them. The rooms are usually done in a gray called Argo by Sherwin Williams. All the trim is white with medium to dark floors. It is stunning.

In my new beach house I used the Argo in my bathroom. I bought about 8 paint samples that picked up colors in the rugs or paintings and I painted stripes all over the room to see how I liked it in different light. It cost about $40 to do this but was worth it. The wall behind my bed is a dusty blue and the other walls are a sand beige.

Try looking on www.houzz.com for ideas and comments on decorating.

PStreet1 said:

Try looking on www.houzz.com for ideas and comments on decorating.

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I second this. Great ideas on here.