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.
Light grey paint for living room walls.
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.
Sometimes previously unseen warm cool green or blue tones can surface after gray paint is on the wall.
Larette designed this contemporary california farmhouse with blue gray living room walls that open up to the outside.
In this charming family friendly home interior designer heidi caillier chose a light gray paint in the living room to play up the color scheme of the eclectic furniture and decor throughout.
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.
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.
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.
Going gray seems simple enough at the outset but sample paint chips and the finished result often vary greatly.
Also using cement gray shades can be a nice way to have a perfect result.
That way you can have a light grey room and add more details to it.
To help you choose the ideal gray paint color for your space take these essential factors into consideration.
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.
I like to use the lightest color on the strip for the ceiling instead of stark white.