anyone good at home decorating?

[simba20]

Our master bedroom has a "sitting room" off of it, which we are using as our home office/study.

I am planning on painting the master bedroom a khaki color -- as it will go with anything, and it's far easier to change a comforter than change paint color.....

However, for the sitting room, I am struck by painting it a different color (say a leafy green -- sage like -- soft -- kinda olivey maybe). Our desk is a honey wood color and the rest of the furniture is white -- cheapo Wal-Mart bookshelves and such.

You can;t see into the xitting room unless you walk all the way into the master bedroom and then the view is only visable from the bed.

Should I stick with painting both rooms the same color? Or can I get away with doing a different color?

 

[SaraJayne]

Our master bedroom has a "sitting room" off of it, which we are using as our home office/study.

I am planning on painting the master bedroom a khaki color -- as it will go with anything, and it's far easier to change a comforter than change paint color.....

However, for the sitting room, I am struck by painting it a different color (say a leafy green -- sage like -- soft -- kinda olivey maybe). Our desk is a honey wood color and the rest of the furniture is white -- cheapo Wal-Mart bookshelves and such.

You can;t see into the xitting room unless you walk all the way into the master bedroom and then the view is only visable from the bed.

Should I stick with painting both rooms the same color? Or can I get away with doing a different color?

What about using the same color, just a shade or two darker?

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I think you could absolutely do those two colors! My advice is to just make sure they're complimentary - I'd choose a green that has brown undertones (as opposed to grey). Sage or olive would definitely go with khaki.

 

[LilyWDW]

As someone with a degree in Design and who still does it on the side while getting my MBA, I say go for it! Just keep the colors within the same family. A nice sage would be a wonderful accent to a khaki. I would make sure that whatever color you go with has a brown tinge to it... so a more muted green as opposed to a true green.

 

[golfgal]

We have a large sitting room off our master that we use for a tv room. Our bedroom is basically a khaki color (Benjamin Moore's Scarecrow 1041) and the wall of the sitting room that you could see if you walked into our master is a brick red--there is brick red in our bedding. The other 3 walls in the sitting room are a deep gold (Benjamin Moores Sandy Valley 1112) which goes with the furniture in the tv room. If you put the paint chips side by side the Scarecrow and the Sandy Valley don't really "go" together but with the red wall and the separation of the rooms they look just fine. I wanted to do the entire sitting room in the brick red but got vetoed by my Dh.