What color should I paint my dining room?

[baldguy]

On the advice of my more artisticly-inclined sister, I'm leaning toward a very light green - but which one!

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[MonkeyFunk]

1. I've always wanted a purple dining room

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. My den is purple...

A light lavender. It was that color when I bought the place.

[MonkeyFunk]

11. cool

do you like it?

I've had a plan to paint my place for 7 years, but it all depends on finding JUST the right color I want for my living room, and I haven't yet found it.

My place is very open, and right now all the walls are white. but I want the living room a golden orange, the dining room purple, and the kitchen red. But it all hinges on finding exactly the golden orange I want. Sort of a sunflower color.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. Not my first choice, but it's all right for now.

Also, I am not certain what color I'd want in here.

The painting priority (and I hope to do it this spring or summer) is to have the bedroom repainted. It is currently egg yolk yellow, a color in which I look ghastly. I am considering a couple of shades of green and waiting for the tax refund.

My living room is a deep rich ruby, but it works. The room is large (15 by 20) and has two walls all windows. The dining area is the same color.

[AllegroRondo]

2. rule of thumb

check out your furniture and drapes first. Its much easier to match a paint color to a fabric, than find a fabric to match your paint.

[mikeytherat]

3. Beware very pale greens!

Depending on the shade and the lighting in the room, light greens can look very washed out and even grey and cold (almost like concrete).

I recommend a bright Victorian Red!

mikey_the_rat

[SeattleGirl]

4. Ha! That's exactly what I was thinking, mikey!

I painted my home office a red color (not Victorian, but a very nice red). Wish I had a dining room so that I could paint it the same color!

[dropkickpa]

5. "Your work computer is a decrepit old dinosaur

and you can't turn the handcrank fast enough to get flash 7 to work".

That's what my work computer tells me, anyway.,, so I couldn't peruse the site you linked.

I love light green, my bedroom is a really crisp light green color (not "muddy" at all) that I absolutely love waking up to. I think it would be nice in a dining room so long as you avoid weird minty tones or olive hints (my moms dining room is this weird minty pale pale green, not really condusive to eating at all).

[NMDemDist2]

6. if you're gonna go green, make it a sage green

I put that in my kitchen and it's working ok

i painted my last dining room/kitchen a gray that was lovely but the mavens say RED for a dining room and I think that's good too

here's the sage green in the kitchen



and the gray in the last house

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Color affects mood...

A quick read on that here:
http://www.paintquality.com/diy/content/design_2.htm

I recently changed a green room to a red dining room...and the conversation and appetite factors went way up!

Before:



After:

[MissB]

8. If you have good light, go for red

I painted my dining room a cabernet red, which was rich and lovely. However, my dining room is especially dark despite its many windows (has to do with living in a forest and having a covered porch that wraps around). I had to repaint it a lighter color - and went with something more neutral.

I'm not overly fond of sage green, but you could try a sample of it or paint one wall and see how it looks.

[TrogL]

9. Plaid

[joneschick]

13. world's most liveable color

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