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Painting a sitting room - Colour Schemes....

  • 21-02-2013 10:59am
    #1
    duffman21
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    About to start painting the sitting room, and my partner wants to paint it a soft shade of grey and paint the chimney breast a shade of red. To be honest I'm a little unsure on the colour scheme so I was wondering if people where able to share some pics of their own colour schemes in their sitting rooms (or an rooms really) i find it hard to imagine what a room will look like using testers and colour charts.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    getz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    duffman21 wrote: »
    Hi all,

    About to start painting the sitting room, and my partner wants to paint it a soft shade of grey and paint the chimney breast a shade of red. To be honest I'm a little unsure on the colour scheme so I was wondering if people where able to share some pics of their own colour schemes in their sitting rooms (or an rooms really) i find it hard to imagine what a room will look like using testers and colour charts.

    Thanks
    when i worked for a large paint company ,we would build a small cardboard copy of the room the customer wanted painting,we then could change the colour of the walls to meet his taste, you can also try the [EMAIL="B@Q"]B@Q[/EMAIL] web site,i believe that now you can see the colours as the look in a room and change them as you wish,


  • #3
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    duffman21 wrote: »
    Hi all,

    About to start painting the sitting room, and my partner wants to paint it a soft shade of grey and paint the chimney breast a shade of red. To be honest I'm a little unsure on the colour scheme so I was wondering if people where able to share some pics of their own colour schemes in their sitting rooms (or an rooms really) i find it hard to imagine what a room will look like using testers and colour charts.

    Thanks

    Grey and red can look well together.

    Our house has every room painted with at least 2 colours..kitchen/dinning area has 3.


    A few sampler pots and some pieces of A4 paper painted in the various colours and then stuck up with blu-tak is always a good way to do things.

    Look at the colours on the walls in natural daylight and also under house lights too.

    Then make your decision.


    Simples.:)


  • #4
    duffman21
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭duffman21


    Thanks guys

    (cheers for the pics Paddy)


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