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What color should I paint my living room walls?

If I get the following couches and hardwood floors, what color should I paint my living room?

What do you think? Submit your recommendations in the comments!

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40 Responses to What color should I paint my living room walls?

  2. Tam
    April 25, 2011 at 11:08 am

    Well, I’d probably stay away from anything too brown or it will be a brown-out. You could do something dramatic like paint it mostly cream but then have one accent wall in red or forest green or a deep color like that. Even a deep steel blue maybe. But I have no clue. I’m not very much of a decorator.

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  3. vuboq
    April 25, 2011 at 11:08 am

    I suggest something white/neutral and hang really big colorful artwork. It’s easier to change art on the walls than repaint.

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  4. Justin
    April 25, 2011 at 11:43 am

    Bleh. Neutral is boring. Hunter green goes well with brown. :)

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  5. jere
    April 25, 2011 at 11:51 am

    Bubble gum pink is always the right answer.

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  6. Adam
    April 25, 2011 at 11:53 am

    If you had put a Polldaddy poll at the end of this post, I would have clicked the “who gives a shit?” option. Blog about something interesting next time. Thanks!

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  7. Mikey, Head Writer
    April 25, 2011 at 11:54 am

    Depending upon the size of the room, Hunter Green could be claustrophobic. I think a nice cream color would be very flattering with brown….somewhere between taupe and ecru

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    • Justin
      April 25, 2011 at 12:16 pm

      And Mikey just raised his fagometer rating from an already very high 8 to a 9.5.

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      • Mikey, Head Writer
        April 25, 2011 at 12:23 pm

        and Justin raised his assholemeter rating by an infinite amount, which is quite the accomplishment since it was already off the charts.

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        • Harry M
          April 26, 2011 at 2:46 am

          HA, HA, HA! ROFL! OMG! This is hilarious. You rock Mikey! Love, Harry

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        • Justin
          April 26, 2011 at 11:09 am

          Michael, I apologize. Sincerely. To you personally, and to everybody else in this comment section. I really didn’t intend my comment to be hurtful.

          I understand why my comment seemed “homophobic and hateful”. I’m proud of being gay. I make jokes about stereotypes like fashion sense or whatever but I don’t consider heteronormal standards to be “better” and I don’t judge a person based on how they fit against heteronormal standards. To me it’s just light-hearted goofiness to make jokes about this sort of thing.

          Enrico got offended by this before and I should’ve just taken his (obviously much more socially-appropriate) lead and not continued making jokes like this. :(

          Sorry everybody :(

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      • Adam
        April 25, 2011 at 12:25 pm

        My comment may have been cocky & rude, but yours was homophobic and hateful. Maybe you should think before you type?

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      • Craig
        April 25, 2011 at 12:25 pm

        Not crazy about “fagometer”.

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    • Craig
      April 25, 2011 at 12:25 pm

      I like the cream idea!

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  8. 44/7
    April 25, 2011 at 12:46 pm

    Off-white, to better show off the spray pattern of arterial blood spurting from the dancing monkeys who voted for Kirk?

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  9. Polt
    April 25, 2011 at 1:30 pm

    I have absolutely no design sense whatsoever, but I’m gonna go with VUBOQ’s idea. White neutral goes with almost anything. And when you get bored with your art, get some more and BAM, whole new room!

    HUGS…

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  10. Mel
    April 25, 2011 at 3:21 pm

    Hunter green is so 2000-Entitled-Suburban-Soccer-Mom it makes me want to vomit whenever I even see the words.

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    • Justin
      April 26, 2011 at 11:14 am

      LOL tell me what you REALLY think, Mel! I deserved to be called a homophobic and hateful asshole but being compared to an entitled suburban soccer mom is pretty harsh :(

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  11. john
    April 25, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    I have less advice about colors and more about the actual paint you use.

    I moved last year and have painted all eight rooms and two bathrooms in the house. I’ve used several different brands of paint (Behr, Valspar, Pratt & Lambert) but the best paint by far is Sherwin-Williams. It covers well, is easy to clean up and comes in really nice range of colors. It is a little expensive, but they run really good sales (40% off) pretty regularly.

    I also recommend priming the walls, it really does make a huge difference. I covered two electric blue walls with one coat of primer and one coat of paint.

    I totally agree with VUBOQ. A neutral color is the way to go. I would suggest a cream with a warm or golden/honey undertone to bring out the warmer colors in the floor and furniture.

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    • Michelle M.
      April 25, 2011 at 5:22 pm

      Sherwin Williams is great. We’ve used that brand, and Behr too (which is my favorite). I would suggest using the samples and painting a very large splotch before you commit to a color. If we had done that, we wouldn’t have had band aid color walls for a year before we could repaint.

      Also – eggshell is better than flat. Flat is so dull and yuck. Eggshell will make cleaning Mikey’s blood off the walls much easier.

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    • Justin
      April 26, 2011 at 11:10 am

      You didn’t mention Benjamin Moore. Most contractors / professional painters around the Boston area swear by it. Did you compare it to Sherwin Williams? I’ve heard good things about Sherwin Williams, too, but haven’t heard anybody compare it specifically against Benjamin Moore.

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  12. M. Nicodemus
    April 25, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    Scary, I have a room with almost those exatct couches and flooring. We went with the color “saffron” from Restoration Hardware, which is kinda light gold-brown, for the walls and a dark brown for the base boards.

    Since the paint at RH is $$ I just took one of the color cards to Home Depot and had them color match it.

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  13. Paul
    April 25, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    since the floor and couches have orage tones to them the wall should be blue for a nice contrast.

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  14. Xi_Heather
    April 25, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    I’d go with:
    (a) peach, because that’s what we painted our living room last year and it still makes me happy to look at it [and we have brown couches too, though they look like the poor homeless relations of those couches]

    (b) blue because blue is pretty [though navy would look the best and yet be too dark unless it were an accent color], or

    (c) cream, because it would be a simple background for a gigantic poster/mural that you could have Michelle M. create for you.

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  15. Chris D.
    April 25, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    Beige gets my vote. I have a browner floor, and lighter couches (more of a medium coca color). Currently my living room is a slightly peachy beige. I think white could be a little too harsh. I like a beige and brown color pallet. When I eventually repaint, I think I will diminish the peach but stick with a mild beige color. I also plan to get brown curtains. I suppose you also need to think about what color curtains you want.

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  16. FDot
    April 26, 2011 at 12:38 am

    I’d love to help, but I’ve got a slight case of red/green colorblindness, which doesn’t come in handy when trying to match similarly colored couches. I’ll bake cookies instead.

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