As I mentioned in an earlier topic I'm going to be moving soon. I'm going from a tiny apartment to a large 3 bedroom house. The best part since the whole house needs to be repainted my future landlord told me I could pick out the paint colors!!! (as long as its not to dark) While I am super excited about it, it's also very intimidating as I've spent my whole life in white walled rental places. So far I've only been able to decide on the color of my bedroom. So I could use some whole house color scheme advice! Never having had the opportunity to paint before its tempting to go nuts with color, but I also want the house to look nice and flow together even though its an older house (built in the 1890's) with a kind of boxed in layout.
I need to decide room colors for:
~ Entry/hallway (dark wood - trim, doorways and hard wood floor)
~ Stairway and upstairs hall: Might need to tie in with the entry way color wise as the stairs start by the front door. The stair rail is dark wood, but all the doors/frames and trim upstairs can all be painted)
~ Living Room: off the entryway (dark wood - trim, doorways and hard wood floor)
~ Dining room: Off entry way (dark wood - trim, doorways and hard wood floor as well as darker wood paneling on lower part of wall up to chair rail)
~ Family Room: Off dinning room (dark wood - trim, doorways and hard wood floor)
~ Kitchen: Off of dinning room (doorway from dining room and the cupboards are all dark wood - all other trim, doorways and center island are currently white and can be painted) I'm kind of thinking maybe a nice country blue and white, or a soft pale yellow?
~ Half Bath off of Kitchen: Complete blank slate, as the walls, trim and sink cabinet need painting and the floor needs new linoleum which I get to pick as well. visitors can't see pics , please
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~ The upstairs bathroom: has a dark wood sink cabinet. The linoleum needs to be replaced as well so its pretty much a blank slate as well.
~ My Room: Leaning towards pale lilac with white trim
~ My Daughters Room: She's trying to decide between pink and sky blue
~ And the Most important room color... THE PONY/craft room! (think I'm most excited about this room!)
Any advice, tips, or suggestions will be greatly appreciated!