Eating Room Wall Design Choices (A Mother vs. Kristi Disagreement)

Effectively, y’all, my mother is at it once more, attempting to manage how I adorn my home. I’m simply kidding, in fact. 🤣🤣 (I like you, Mother!) She does give me her opinion on my tasks and my adorning selections frequently. Typically we agree, different occasions we disagree. Ultimately, she actually does acknowledge that that is my home and we’ve got wildly totally different adorning kinds. However she does provide her opinions once I float numerous concepts and choices that I’m contemplating in a weblog publish.

And that brings us to our present disagreement — the eating room partitions. 😀 My present plan is to do a design utilizing the 2 impartial colours that I’ve used all through the opposite “public” rooms of the home — Behr Polar Bear, which is a creamy white, and Benjamin Moore Traditional Grey, which is so gentle and impartial that it doesn’t actually learn as a grey to my eye. It’s a contact on the nice and cozy aspect, so it’s extra within the greige class, in case you ask me.

These are the 2 colours that I used to color the stenciled design on the music room partitions.

The partitions within the eating room are at present painted within the Traditional Grey colour, though proper now, they appear like a whole mess with the paint samples that I thought of, the black rectangle on the realm the place the TV body used to hold, and the areas that I’m at present repairing after eradicating the cabinets. So that you’ll must look past the mess and simply deal with how the Traditional Grey appears to be like on the partitions on this room with the Polar Bear trim and white ceiling.

Right here’s what the Traditional Grey appears to be like like in a completed room. And right here, you possibly can see from the lounge into the kitchen (which has white tiled partitions) and into the eating room with the present Traditional Grey partitions. Clearly, that is an older image, as you possibly can inform from the art work on the partitions.

So with all of that in thoughts, my mother thinks that stable Traditional Grey partitions could be higher in my eating room the place I plan to make use of daring, colourful art work, colourful cloth in no less than two patterns, and a inexperienced eating desk. As you possibly can see from the photographs above, the colour proven on this picture isn’t fairly proper. It’s a lot darker and grayer than the Traditional Grey. If I’m going this path, I’d keep on with the Traditional Grey, so it might be lighter, brighter, and never so clearly grey. However this provides us an thought of what a stable impartial colour would appear like within the room.

She says that there’s already a lot occurring within the room, and there’s a lot for the attention to absorb, so the stable colour provides the attention “a spot to relaxation”.

So with that mentioned, listed here are the concepts I attempted out. First, I attempted out a vertical stripe. Once more, I feel the grey is simply too darkish and too grey. You’d must refer again to the music room partitions to see the precise colours. Instantly, I didn’t like how the stripes on the partitions appear to compete with the stripes on the chairs.

So I puzzled if a horizontal stripe would possibly work higher. I nonetheless didn’t like the 2 competing stripe patterns.

However then I attempted a harlequin design. I like this one. If I do a patterned wall, that is what I need.

And if that is nonetheless an excessive amount of distinction with the white and tremendous gentle grey colour, I may all the time go along with a white-on-white harlequin design utilizing an alternating matte and shiny paint. That may give sufficient distinction with the totally different sheens to make the partitions attention-grabbing with out truly utilizing two totally different colours to create the sample. It will additionally take me again 22 years as a result of that’s precisely what I did in our bed room in our first home in Oregon, besides that in that bed room, I used a darkish crimson to create the harlequin sample — similar colour, two alternating sheens. Speak about a throwback! That was so way back that I don’t suppose I even have photos of that mission, however it turned out actually fairly.

So anyway, are you Crew Mother with the stable Traditional Grey partitions, or are you Crew Kristi with a impartial harlequin sample? And in case you’re Crew Kristi, ought to I keep on with the Polar Bear and Traditional Grey sample, or ought to I do an all Polar Bear sample with alternating sheens?