dining room colors

[Cumberland]

What are the popular colors for a dining room right now? My house is mostly taupe/mocha color. The dining room is kind of a glaring maroon that doesnt flow.

What kind of light does your dining room get? Furniture shade?

How did the wallpaper project go?

Most dining rooms I've seen around here (textbook definition of suburbia) are shades of red. I believe ours is call "Spanish Red" -- a Sherwin Williams color if memory serves. It was a more purplish shade of red before.

[DCJenn]

My dining room in DC is Benjamin Moore's Wales Green with Seahorse Flat on the ceiling and glossy on the trim accented with Peachy Keen on one section that divides the DR from the LR.

The dining room here is going to be Behr's Melted Butter, with Divine Pleasure trim, White Fur ceiling and Perivian Violet on the doors, stair and back wall going up the stairs.

I'm all about color for the most part- although I have to say that my bathrooms and the dudes room are Behr's Irish Mist with Granite Boulder trim and it looks great with black accents and tan/white/cream accents.

Jenn

[Momo]

OMG, I sooo need to check out these paint sites you all frequent...list the URLs please

[DCJenn]

Cumberland-

I was just reading domino this month and it's their Little Black Book issue and a bunch of the designers selected Benjamin Moores Bittersweet Chocolate #2114-10 as their go-to color with white trim.

It would go very well since the rest of the house is tans/taupes but would still be a pop of color. Brown is so easy to accessorize, too. There are very few colors that wouldn't coordinate.

Jenn

PS- PP http://www.benajminmoore.com and http://www.homedepot.com
The HD site you have to navigate to the behr paint site. Behr paint was once again listed by consumer reports as the best of the best.

I'm going to get that one, Jenn. I love rich shades of brown. There was Martha Stewart Living a while back (quite a while, 5+ years) with an article on decorating with browns and there were great shades in there.

[Flynn]

We did Devine Medallion (it's a brown)

http://www.devinecolor.com/color.html


We have black furniture with a wine colored (red wine) cushions for an accent. The trim is white and the floor is a chocolate hard wood.