Need help choosing a color to paint living room.?

My living room is 24 by 12 so its long and not wide so it seems small. The floors are a light hardwood. The new curtains I bought are brown and the furniture is a light tan with the pillows having a abstract design and the colors are green and brown. The color on the wall right now is a darker tan on bottom and a lighter tan on top because there is molding. Im going for a more modern look so I would like a some what brighter color. thanks.Need help choosing a color to paint living room.?
I would recommend you take the green color from your pillow and choose that for your top color. If the green in your pillow is too bright of a green or too dark of a green, the sales associates at the paint store can help get a coordinating green for you (take your pillow with you so they can match it perfectly). On the bottom of the chair rail, I would recommend a brown that is similar in shade to your pillow as well. This will help tie your whole room together all thanks to pillows you chose with an abstract design! Actually, that is a good way to coordinate a room. You get a favorite painting (for example) that is in the room and use those colors to finish your room off. Good luck, I hope it turns out just as you hoped!Need help choosing a color to paint living room.?
It go with two different shade of beige. The lighter one the narrow walls, and the darker the wide walls. That way it will widen your room and flow with your other colors, You don't want your walls to stand out and over whelm your room either, so that would work. Also-do not paint the molding a different color that would just make the room more narrow and age the look.
To see some styles of painted rooms go to Lowes or Home Depots Home Centers Web sites and look for their Virtual Painting section.They give you a variety of different types of rooms: examples bedrooms,living rooms and kitchens.Select a room that fits your particular project and then you can select your colors that you like and the program allows you to apply these colors to the walls,ceilings and mouldings.This allows you to see what color combinations best suit your needs.





good luck
play around with the Sherwin Williams color visualizer to find something that you like. It is the best paint visualizer on the web, imho. I like how their color palette is laid out, I like that you can search by color family %26amp; color name, the ';painted'; rooms look the most realistic, and it suggests coordinating color schemes. You can literally spend hours:


http://www.sherwin.com/visualizer/





I think a color like ';aristocrat peach'; (# 0027) would give you just the color you need.
Paint the 12 ft. wall a darker green from top to bottom , like a bright lime green. It'll bring the wall closer, so the living room will appear to have a better proportion.The molding on the 24 ft. walls should be the same color as either the top or bottom since it is a stripe that makes the long walls seem longer.
I like the way a subdued pale aqua looks with brown and tan. Maybe to get a coastal feel in there, you can paint the bottom a pale aqua and the top a sandy color. Then, buy new pillows to go with that scheme.
Paint it a mellow colour that brings out wood trim/funiture