I like to use the lightest color on the strip for the ceiling instead of stark white.
Light grey paint for living room walls.
Use white paint for your walls and ceilings and allow browns and greys to accentuate the fixtures and other parts of your room like the stairs and house foundations.
I use it when i m trying to create intimacy in an oversized space or warmth in small room with little natural light patrick ediger shop.
The light gray walls comfy velvet sofa worn leather club chairs and geometric print flokati area rug work together to create a cozy and masculine respite perfect for kicking up your feet at the end of a long day.
Larette designed this contemporary california farmhouse with blue gray living room walls that open up to the outside.
If you prefer darker colored walls or just a little more pigment than these light grays you can always use the third swatch down on the sherwin williams paint strip or the fourth or fifth swatch on the benjamin moore strip for the non hc colors.
That way you can have a light grey room and add more details to it.
Also using cement gray shades can be a nice way to have a perfect result.
It s a deep sumptuous shade of gray that wraps you like a velvety fog.
Hands down my favorite gray paint is charleston gray by farrow ball.
This is because paint colors don t give you light they only reflect it.
Use lighter blends of grey white and browns for your living room if your living room combines wood and marble materials for your walls and accents.
The soft color works with the bright natural light.
Going gray seems simple enough at the outset but sample paint chips and the finished result often vary greatly.
The light they reflect is dependent upon the amount of light in the room the type of lighting natural or artificial and finally the color on the wall and the furniture furnishings in the space.