Different rooms, different color? This is a common question and often a stumbling block when choosing paint colors for adjoining rooms in your home, especially if there is no clear dividing wall. You need to keep your color scheme in mind not only within one room, but also how it will flow into the surrounding spaces. When painting adjoining rooms of your home a different color, following these tips will help you create a nice sense of flow without being color shocked as you go from one room to the next.
Open Spaces: If you have a space such as a living and dining room that connect and flow right into each other, choose one color for the living room, and then paint the dining room one or two shades darker. This creates the feeling of a separate space and keeps good flow, without going too bold and drastic with the walls. The space will still feel connected even though the paint on the wall is slightly different.- Painting adjoining rooms a different color: If you want to paint adjoining rooms different colors, refer back to the different color schemes to give you some guidance on how the colors will look together. Just make sure to use the same tone of color from room to room. Use either all muted or all bright colors tones, but not a combination of the two. Imagine the awkward feeling created by adjoining rooms that are a sunny yellow, olive green, baby blue, and vibrant purple.
The trick to tying the two different colored rooms together is to pull both colors into the other space. For example, if your living room is painted yellow, and the dining room next to it is painted green, use some yellow accessories in the green dining room and use some green accessories in the yellow living room. You can also tie the two rooms together by using the same accent color in both rooms. In this kitchen/dining room, a soft blue is used to create a unified look. The artwork in the kitchen pulls some of that blue color in from the dining room walls. The blue vases on the table continue the theme. You can also see how the kitchen island base ties into the far side of the dining room as well. There is no need to go overboard with this. Just make sure there is a splash of color that relates to the adjoining room.
Being aware of adjoining rooms as you choose a color scheme will help to create a very nice sense of flow throughout your home.
