Question for interior designers, etc, re warm vs cold colours

JD · 2015-07-31T16:53:37+00:00

I am about to choose a colour for my living room walls. I'd like to use a very pale blue. I mean, a *very, very* pale blue. You might call it a blue- tinted white, almost. My hope is that this colour will make the room look bigger (cool, light colours recede, etc). The quesion is, will this tend to make the room look too 'cold' for comfort. I should mention that the carpet and the leather furniture are red, as is the red brick fire surround, so there is a lot of very warm colour in the room to balance out the proposed cold colour of the walls. Is the abundance of red material in the room likely to offset the coldness of the wall colour? I'm trying to decide on the colour before committing to buying the paint. Thanks for any views. JD

Jul 31, 2015 23 Replies

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News 10 years ago

One cat, one dog, one fourteen year old. Strange. I thought it would be like living in a fridge, but it honestly isn't. Well, it is, but that is location and construction rather than colour. This is the first house I've lived in where we put the butter in the fridge to make it easier to spread.

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tabbypurr 10 years ago

I'm going by the seasonal system. There are others.

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Phil K 10 years ago

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In other words, the "I ain't got a clue" system.

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tabbypurr 10 years ago

Why is there so much childishness on newsgroups

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