Colour Consultation; Dining Room and Winner of my Giveaway!

Art by Karena is the winner of my umbrella giveaway (see post below)!  She is a very talented artist in Kansas.  I went through her archives and posted my favourite, this one below, called Awakening.

Here again is my clients living room.  She didn’t want orange as she preferred a cooler palette on the walls in her house (which is why we went from the existing colour; Thousand Islands in the living room to Revere Pewter BM HC-172—new colour not shown),  the obvious place to look (for me) was the second accent colour in the room, which was the blue/green.  .  . She had more of this colour in the room (I am only showing half the room here).  The colour we chose was HC-136 Waterbury Green (see the before photo in my previous post).  And she did double strength on the ceiling (which is not visible below). When I started the giveaway I was asking people to guess what I did but that wasn’t working very well so I changed it to their suggestion instead!

You might have an opinion about this colour and whether you would have chosen it, however, the point I'm making here is the place to LOOK when you are trying to decide what colour your dining room should be in the first place.

Since dining rooms are usually a more dramatic colour, the first place I look when selecting the  colour is the accent colour in the living room.  Otherwise it could look like the colour is chosen from the sky (and there’s nothing wrong with that either).  However, when people hire me, they are looking for flow in their house, and this is one way to create that.  Sometimes (if it works) I’ll even repeat the dining room colour in the Powder room because it’s another room that likes drama!

Congratulations Karena!  Have a Happy Weekend everyone!

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