Help with blue paint color for living room
 

Hi Villagers,

I was hoping some people could advise me on a nice soft blue paint color that would look nice in the main part of the house. Not baby blue! I bought a beige leather couch and loveseat, and it looks terrible with the beige walls (kilim beige). I saw this picture and thought it looked beautiful.

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1 Go to Sherwin- Williams, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Hundreds of color choices. Many in the blue tone.
2 Get some samples.
3 Get a small jar of your Top 3 choices.
4 Brush on your wall.
5 Choose the winner

Paint or have painted.

I have had bad luck with paint chips being a lot different than the paint. I have tried three already. I was hoping that someone had a good experience with blue and could make a color name recommendation. John W recommended Aqua Breeze in a earlier post a few years ago, but his picture is not there anymore

Any color grayed down quite a bit is very appealing. I never would do a stark blue color in the living room. I tried dark dark blue and had to repaint.

I have a full unopened car, and a partial can of a light blue paint that we used in a bathroom, you can have it for free.

Beige can vary from warm to cool in color temperature, creamy beige to taupe beige etc. It’s hard to recommend a blue not knowing what hue your couch is. But what I do is get sample paint then paint it on a large area like a newspaper and when it dries I take this large piece around to different places in the room to see how it would match things and in different lights.

How about a Light Blue?

I would get rid of the couch and love seat.
£4&?!! the painting!

Yeah, I really hate painting also! LOL Villagetinker's offer was very nice and knowing him from all of his posts, I'm sure the exact mix/combo #'s are on the cans - so getting more should be no problem. Good luck to the OP and their project.

I used Winter White at home and it came out with a hint of blue. Check out the whites too, can’t remember brand.

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Here's a helpful hint from Ruth Dyer, the decorator. Buy a few sheets of small poster board, say at least 11" x 14", and paint them with various tints of blue that you might like. Then, as Velvet said, carry around and hold up against the wall in all kinds of light to see which works the best.

I also agree that paint colors are often too strong mixed according to the formula. The paint dealer can tinker with the color until you are pleased. We repainted walls before we moved in and it took seven trips to the paint store in one day to get the exact tone we wanted.

So we got the color we wanted. But we hadn't learned at that time another: Choose an eggshell or satin finish over flat. Flat swallows light and in many of these house plans there are not enough windows to capture the light.

Thank you all! We will be returning for the winter in a few weeks and I hope to change the paint to something that makes me happy. I really like that soft blue in the first post. I wish I knew what the color was called. This is what I have now and it is depressing. I will try a few more samples on poster board.

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QUOTE=islandtimeCB;2150132]Thank you all! We will be returning for the winter in a few weeks and I hope to change the paint to something that makes me happy. I really like that soft blue in the first post. I wish I knew what the color was called. This is what I have now and it is depressing. I will try a few more samples on poster board.

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No offense meant, but that looks so cold.
Even a picture on blank wall and some curtains would soften the place.

I know it needs a lot of work. The pic is a bit worst than it really is. No lamps yet :-)
We just moved in last year and need more furniture, pictures, etc. The pickings were slim last year. We ordered plantation shutters that will be installed in November and will furniture shop again this year, hopefully with better availability.

I love the color of your couch! Because it is so pale I would go with more of a medium shade of color for contrast, maybe a slightly warm soft grayish blue. The rug picks up the color nicely, but later you could add a couple of vibrant pillows, throws, art. Isn’t it fun starting from fresh? I just loved it when we were at this stage of decorating.

I have a suggestion. I have the exact same sofa and large chair. I would suggest an accent wall behind the TV. The villa I have was painted a dark blue gray Goes perfectly with everything and probably your blue rug. You can leave the rest of the walls neutral off white. That solve painting the whole room with a dark blue color.

Sounds delightful!

Sherwin Williams Poolhouse Blue
 

The wife and I just bought a house and decided to paint the main wall in blue, we unfortunately chose something way too dark.

In our kitchen up north we used poolhouse blue and love it so much we plan to repaint our wall down here the same color

Sherwin Williams Sea Salt is beautiful

Try Benjamin Moore Summer Shower or Bunny Gray (it has a tinge of blue in it)

Soft Blue Paint Color
 

You might like the Sherwin Williams color “Misty”.
Also, check out the online company Samplize for peel and stick paint samples.

By asking this question I begin to wonder how you were ever able to buy a house - time to make a decision on your own!!

Check out KylieM Interiors online. She does a great job of describing paint colors. Lots of videos. She addresses undertones and how natural light (or lack of) affects how the color looks in a room. She also talks about specific colors from SW and BM. I watched so many of her videos and found them to be very helpful when we were deciding paint colors here.

blue paint color
 

Check out Sherwin Williams Reflection (SW7661). It looks gray on the paint chip but on the walls it is nice subtle light blue. Good luck,!

Paint for living room
 

The color paint you like seems to be a silver-blue.
It's a challenge to get just the right color blue in a previous home. I found greater success in looking at the silver-blue tints and was very successful several times.

One thing I didn't know, as your paint sits in the garage it changes it's hue and doesn't necessarily match when trying to repaint a section of wall. Best approach, is to take a piece of painted wall board to Sherwin Williams and they will match it perfectly.

Love the wall color you provided! Good luck!

Samplize is the BEST thing ever. We just repainted our entire interior. And replaced countertops. And wanted a blue in the main living area. The full page size peek and stick are so easy to see and move to various lighting positions etc. and as for color, we ended up with Yarmouth Blue from Benjamin Moore. But Paladium Blue and Catalina Blue were also in the running but a little more on the green side. Good luck. I was very nervous about a complete change of color until I got the Samplize stick ons. Worth every penny and so much easier than making your own samples. One more thing. You can also ask for the finish you want - flat, eggshell, etc

Blue or not too blur
 

We have painted our living room in a blue that you may find appealing. Come and see it when you make it into town, it might be exactly what you are looking for.

SW 6255
Morning Fog
Google it — looks more blue than gray on walls.

We always use Sherwin Williams paint and as someone said before, eggshell finish for easy cleaning and a consistent tone. I’m sure the SW store can assist!

You may want to consider that the day light up north is different from Florida. The deeper colors up north are amazing there and the somewhat more vibrant colors in Florida are wonderful here. I bought a house with a crocodile green living room. Up north the same color would look sea-sick green. Here I didn’t change it because it gives the feeling of a sun lit forest. I actually have grown to love it.

(Just a couple of possible tips adding to comments already posted by "Velvet" & others.)
Because lighting is different in different areas of the country, in different homes, and in different areas of the same home at different times of the day, if you are able (unless by now you have found the color you decidedly prefer above all others), it may be worth your time to do this in the actual home you plan to paint:

Buy small jar samples of your potential color choices (Sherwin-Williams does not offer them, but at Home Depot you can get them for Sherwin-Williams and other paints for apx. $4). If you cannot get the samples in the paint finish you plan to use (flat/satin etc.) then buy quarts in the paint type you want even tho you'll be wasting a few $. Example, satin can appear slightly lighter than flat due to being more light-reflective.

Buy a corresponding number of white foam-filled poster boards at Dollar Store ($1.25) or Walmart & paint each board with one of the colors and paint types under consideration (boards are easy to use because they are firm & stand up easily). Dollar store also has cheap wide brushes so you can even buy a brush for each color & discard afterwards so no mess to clean, and if you don't have a drop cloth, buy one or more at $ store or invest in a reusable canvas one.

Paint at least 2 coats or the colors will not be accurate.

Place the boards against the walls in the various locations to be painted and compare them AT VARIOUS TIMES OF THE DAY (due to variations in lighting).

Interestingly, if you are having difficulty choosing between colors during this process, there will probably be at least one time of day when your order of preference will be obvious.

Paint color
 

This might not what you were lookin for. It is not blue. We went to shrwinnWilliams and picked the color cucumber for our family room area. For the hallway and kitchen we picked a soft yellow

Paint color
 

This might not what you are lookin for. We decided to go with wherein williams color of cucumber for our living room and hallway entrance. For the kitchen we chose a nic soft yellow which brightened up the entrance and kitchen. Hope that helps you.

HUH? Any paint color looks different to different people. You can purchase small samples of paint. You can also purchase or cut squares of sheetrock so as to make large samples of the color and then try them out in your lighting. The type of lighting you have also effects the way a color will look.

As mentioned by others here, buying sample-size paint and using poster board or 2x2 pieces of drywall to make your samples can be money well spent. The size of the samples you make and move around at different times of day will save you from an expensive mistake.

Another approach to think about is to find a picture with shades of blue and of a size to be a focal point in your room and work backwards from those blues.

art.com has a seemingly overwhelming choice of inexpensive prints that you can have mounted and framed. But you can filter by subject, style, and, if I am remembering correctly — color. (It’s been a while since I bought from them, but I have in the past and with success.) Also, you can look around locally for a picture you like. I have found stuff at Goodwill, including a signed print.

Have fun feathering your new nest.

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