Interior Paint Color Questions

Interior Paint Color Questions

Strictly interior paint color questions. These can be for walls or trim.

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• Wall color with cherry cabinets and dark counter tops. - I have cherry cabinets and dark counter tops. What color walls would go best with them?
• What color will go with deep desire for my bathroom? - I am painting my bathroom walls Deep Desire; what color should I paint my sink base that has 3 doors and 4 drawers? I also would like to paint the wicker corner stand. I need to get help on matching the color of my walls. I have not yet painted an...

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• Does crown molding all have to be the same color in a home? - Can molding be all the same color or can it be different throughout the home?
• Rules on trim color. - Does trim have to be the same throughout the house? Can I have white trim in the living room and natural cherry wood trim in the connecting kitchen?
• Chair Rail Color - Can I paint chair rail same color as wall?
• Choosing color for bathroom ceiling paint. - In a small bathroom, can I paint the ceiling the same color as the walls? When does that look good - when should you not consider anything but white ceilings? Is that a new look?
• Vaulted ceilings and adjacent rooms. - I am trying to paint my kitchen and the 2 side walls are vaulted and shared with the living room. I am in the process of painting the kitchen green however don't want that same color in the living room - and the middle of the ceiling is towards t...
• Living room is too white. - My living room is too white and I'm trying to bring some color to the room but not sure what. My home has a contemporary look with low and wide white leather sofas. I also have a white rug. I have 6 small paintings next to each other and they are ...
• Which wall to paint? - I want to paint 1 wall in the bedroom. Does it matter which one it is?
• What color should I paint the interior entryways? - Each room in my home is separated by an entryway with no door. The whole house was painted builder beige. We are now painting with a few different colors. My question is how do I know what color to paint the inside of the entryway. I read some adv...
• Complement colors for walls. - Hello, I have just painted a accent wall in Chocolate brown and the main wall color is Jackson Tan. My question is what color would compliment these colors? It is for my kitchen. I am desperately seeking help. Thanks so very much.
• Paint looks different colour. - I have just painted my stair wall in Magnolia. The wall has a mahogany dado rail. The paint seems to look darker at the bottom. I have applied 3 coats (bottom was green before, top was always Magnolia), used same tin of paint for top & bottom, an...
• Interior Paint Colors - I just bought a mobile home and am trying to choose paint colours. It is fairly open concept so I want all the rooms to flow together nicely. The floors are chocolate brown hard wood in the living room, kitchen and master bedroom and an oak co...
• Entry door trim painting. - Our wood entry door is being repainted dark red on the outside, and the inside is white. What color should the edges of the door be? What about the interior door frame? Can it be two colors, with the exterior part matching the outside trim and the...
• Is it necessary for the trim and doors throughout the house to match? - For example if I wanted the trim in the living room to be white but upstairs I want the trim to be a light toffee color would that be alright. Is there a rule about trim having to match?
• Bedroom or Bath Door Color - Should I paint the interior of the door same as the room walls?
• My pale yellow walls look blotchy even after three coats. - The walls were a medium beige before. I used a pro. painter....he told me he can't do any thing about it!! The paint used was Benjamin Moore Lemon Ice.
• Painting Doors, What Color? - Do the doors in a hallway get painted the same color as the trim or do they get the wall color?
• What color should a door be painted when it is framed in wood? - We live in a very old home where all of the original doors are solid wood. We recently put a new door in and had it framed in the same wood as what already exists in our home, to match the framing of all the doors in our house. The door is a pa...
• Would putting a dark color on a wall that has a window make the room look darker? - I'm painting my walls a dark brown and a light brown and wanted to know if I put the dark paint color on the wall with the window if it will make the room darker.
• Will a single broad stripe of light colored paint across the middle of all walls in a room make the room look smaller, bigger, or not affect it? - We are painting a bedroom a color called Pewter and I am interested in painting a broad, light color stripe across the middle of the room, but I'm unsure if this will make the room look smaller than it already is.
• What color family would work best with dark wood work? - I live in a two hundred year old home. The wood work is a dark brown. I would like to paint the ceiling a cream color and the walls a light chocolate brown. Would this enhance the wood work or take away from it?
• Painting a door, which color? - We painted the kitchen. The master bedroom door faces into the kitchen. Should the side of the door that is in the kitchen be painted the same color as the kitchen?
• A white paint color for inside trim. - What is a good color for painting inside trim? I want a white color. My doors are painted antique white by Glidden. What color white would look best with the doors? Should I paint the doors to match the trim, once the trim is painted white? I d...
• Dividing Two Rooms - My dining room wall flows into the kitchen and there is no way to divide it. How do I stop the paint at a certain point with out just a solid line? It will look dumb, because I want to paint the kitchen a different color. Please help. Thank you.
• Two Toned Interior Wall - I want to paint my wall two tones, but I can't remember if the darker color goes on top or bottom.
• What colors are complimentary to a home with a lot of wood? - We just bought a house and would like to repaint the interior. It is mainly wood on the inside (floors, part of some walls) and I am having a hard time trying to find a good paint scheme to go with that. We need to paint the kitchen, living room, ...

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