Color Feast: 6 Deliciously Uncommon Dining Room Color Combos
Previously in this show about dining room color, we discussed dining room color in terms of a dominant colour in the area. Let’s step it up, color-wise, for the finale, and focus on multihued dining spaces.
This might seem like advanced color choice to a few; it can be tricky to incorporate multiple bold colours in a space and not have it resemble a game board. The secret is to pick colors that harmonize together, and to use brighter colors sparingly. Mix in some mild neutrals or a lot of natural lighting, and you’ll have a gorgeous space for sharing meals with family and friends.
Here are a few of my favourite colorful dining spaces on , along with proposed palettes that you test on your own dining room.
Four Brothers LLC
1. Fresh yellows and greens. This pulling palette looks colorful but has a nice softness. Sunny yellow is a happy color that brings warm summertime to mind. Add a few spring greens for a vibe that is harmonious, as yellow and green are adjacent on the color wheel.
Jennifer Ott Design
Example Colour: From left to right, all from Valspar: Palm Leaf, Leaf Bud and Amber Pearl.
Dallas Rugs
2. Cool grays and blues. This elegant dining room shimmers in colors of deep blue and grey. Generally, a darker colour on the ceiling will visually reduce it, but cooler colours also have a propensity to make a ceiling or wall recede. I think this dark sapphire color makes the room feel more intimate and evokes the feeling of dining al fresco at nighttime.
A great tip for getting light to bounce through a dining room, which adds glow, is to provide the walls a semigloss or high-gloss complete. Just bear in mind that the glossier the paint sheen, the more you’ll observe the texture — and some flaws — in your walls and ceilings.
Jennifer Ott Design
Example Colour: From left to right, all from Behr: Sapphire Sparkle, Silver Screen and Dark Ash.
Rachel Reider Interiors
3. Dramatic deep maroon with crimson. These are intense colours, but because they’re such similar colors of purplish reds they don’t fight with each other.
Jennifer Ott Design
Example Colour: From left to right, all from Mythic Paint: Spring Cosmos, Royal Masterpiece and Romantic Charm.
4. Warm oranges using a light yellow-green. I really like this soft orange wall shade. It’s a natural match with a bolder red-orange and impartial yellow-green. Again, there are many colors used in this area, but because they are adjacent on the color wheel, they harmonize together.
Jennifer Ott Design
Example Colour: From left to right, all from Benjamin Moore: Ryan Red, Canyonlands and Glazed Green.
Jessica Helgerson Interior Design
5. Red, blue and white. That is a bold, contrasting color palette, but it functions because the bright hues appear in relatively tiny quantities. White and neutral wood tones wash over the remainder of the space.
Jennifer Ott Design
Example Colour: From left to right, all from Benjamin Moore: Aruba Blue, Raspberry Truffle and Million Dollar Red.
6. Chartreuse with purple-grays. I must admit I’d not have believed to use chartreuse and purple-gray collectively, but I really dig this particular palette. It’s unusual and extremely eye catching.
Jennifer Ott Design
Example Colour: From left to right, all from Sherwin-Williams: Gorgeous Shade, Light French Gray and Frolic.
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