Home Design/Color Coordination Help Needed

[Elmorton]

Dilemma:

We want to paint our guestroom/study walls, but we're at a loss for the color. Carpet is "ginger ale" - a light yellowy-brown-beige. It's a small room - 12x12 with a decent amount of light and gorgeous cherry trim around the windows and for the baseboards.

On one wall, there is a bed with lavender throw pillows/dust ruffle and a spring green comforter - no pattern, just plain. The bed has a headboard that is antique- almost a victorian style but not really ornate (a little tiny bit of floral carving in the center). Curtains match the bedding - are mostly white with a delicate floral edge with lavender and spring green.

The desk in the room is mission-style and in oak. On the wall where the desk is, we want to hang items from our alma maters - one photo is matted with a deep red, the other has a bunch of yellow/gold in it - and our diplomas, one of which is in a black frame, the other is in gold.

I really don't want to spend any more money on this project except for paint (ie, don't want to change out the bedding, re-mat the pictures, etc), and I know it's never going to look like a magazine because it is a mis-mash of stuff in the room. However, I'd like to find a color that at least makes the clash of the two extremes of lavender/green and red/yellow a little less jarring.

Any ideas?

 

[joflier]

Could you maybe post a pic to maybe give an idea of how the colors and bedding look in there. I''m trying to picture it all in my head, but I''m having a hard time.

 

[somethingshiny]

Basically, lavender and green are the colors in the room, and red and yellow are accents. Red is related to lavender, and yellow is related to green so there shouldn''t be a problem. With your mix of woods reddish and yellowish, that incorporates them into the room, too.

I would go with a golden yellow color for the walls. You could also do one accent wall in a deeper purple to bridge between the lavender and red colors. I think it could look really cute.

 

[April20]

If you want a neutral that isn''t too yellow or too green, Sherwin Williams has a paint called "Wood Skein" that is pretty much perfect. If you prefer a neutral with a more yellow tone, Sea Oats (also SW) is a nice option.

 

[moremoremore]

I''m so useless w/o pix! We want pix!

 

[Elmorton]

Thanks for the ideas!! I''ve been grabbing paint samples that are a pale yellow or a pale green, but I didn''t know if I was on the right track, so thank you SomethingShiny!! - and I''ll definitely check out those suggestions, April - thanks!!

Sorry about the no pics - this is for the new place, so half of the stuff is in storage/boxes at this point.

 

[Erin]

Which are you more inclined to do in the future? Change the bedding or remat the documents?