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Kate Spade

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DH and I just bought our first house!  I'm really excited about painting, after so many years of boring white apartment walls.  The living room and dining room are basically one room, except the dining room is marked out by columns and it has chair molding (I think that's what it's called, it's in the middle of the wall).  The dining room is in between the kitchen/breakfast room and the living room.  This is so hard to describe without pictures!

The living room is already painted a gorgeous shade of deep burgundy, and I love it.  It will go really well with our furniture and the room has two big windows so the burgundy doesn't make the room look tiny.  We want to paint the dining room some kind of neutral.  Here's my dilemma: I really, really want to paint the kitchen green.  But, red + green = Christmas and I don't want my house to look Christmas-y all the time!  When people sit in the living room, a bit of the kitchen is visible and vice versa, but so is all of the dining room, because you have to look through it to get to the other room, so it's kind of a buffer between the two. 

So, do you guys think there is a shade of green that would mesh well with a burgundy room?



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I think that a pretty sage green color would complement the burgandy well.

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I love olive and burgundy together.  A palette I really love is olive/burgundy/ochre -- all warm earthy colors and on the autumnal side.

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Yep, I agree, a sage/olive green would look great. And for the dining room I would do like a buttery yellow or something in the darker mocha colors. Happy painting!

ETA: For what it's worth my kitchen is a sage green with brown rubbed over it (too make it looked aged) and my chairs are red fabric and there are red accents throughout my kitchen and I don't think it looks Christmasy at all.  HTH!

-- Edited by FashionPrincess at 13:35, 2008-10-09

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Cortney1982


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I was thinking sage/olive as well.

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Chanel

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Sage and burgundy is really traditional as a combo.

What about chocolate brown in the dining room under or over the chair rail? It would be a good transition between green in the kitchen and burgundy in the living room. If that's too dark, a deep taupe/khaki would serve the same purpose.

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D wrote:

I love olive and burgundy together. A palette I really love is olive/burgundy/ochre -- all warm earthy colors and on the autumnal side.



 Oh, i love that suggestion! Its sounds so warm and inviting!



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