Help needed with new colour scheme

6 år siden

We’re in the process of redecorating our main bedroom. Previously it had a very natural colour scheme of pale coffee and various hues of brown. For the new colour scheme I’d chosen a gorgeous palette based around sage green and olive (similar to photo below) to compliment our oak furniture and planned to reuse lamps and some accessories. The walls have been painted a neutral pale coffee colour and I intended to introduce the new colours in with a new headboard, ceiling lighting, curtains, throw and cushions.

So the new headboard that i’d ordered online arrived yesterday and it’s a much paler green than I’d expected. It has a bluey hue to it similar to colour below and sadly doesn’t go with the sage green / Olive scheme I had in mind. Due to its size, I can’t really send it back. I’m trying to pretend that I’m happy with it, as my partner already thinks that I’m overly fussey which I am!).

I’d really appreciate help to identify an accent colour to work with, preferably one I can live with and doesn’t involve blue!!

Advanced thanks!

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Juliet Docherty

6 år siden

Hello Claire. Turquoise, Olive and Bronze make a fabulous colour combination. Think of your green headboard as a paler version of blue/green. The trick is to mix these colours together in different levels of intensity, so you could incorporate a small amount of strong turquoise, small amount of strong green along with more muted, larger amounts. I would be tempted to paint the wall behind the bed a strong bronze colour to tie it together. The sludgy colours (or bridge colours) are often the most important in a scheme like this.

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honeypoppet
6 år siden
Do you have a photo or a link you can post that shows the headboard?
Claira Jones
Forfatter
6 år siden
Really difficult to get a true likeness of colour, which is probably why I’m in this situation! Third photo is with the curtains I bought to go up.

I’m wondering if it would look more like sage green with cream bedding...
Claira Jones
Forfatter
6 år siden
It’s much, much lighter than the photos show.
minnie101
6 år siden
It's hard if the colour doesn't show properly but going on what you've said a coral colour should work.
minnie101
6 år siden
Adding a green to the blue green and yellow green might also work.
rachelmidlands
6 år siden
Hi, I can see the difference in tones. But it may still be possible to work with both colours. As Minnie says, coral or a terracotta would work as an accent colour or possibly yellows as well.
PRO
SE Interiors
6 år siden
You can go with the safe option of painting the walls white and adding in your colours through accessories. Or if you wanted more of a statement then you can choose a very similar colour to the headboard and paint the walls the same, like the picture attached
Emily
6 år siden
Tangent question sorry! But you guys that are good with colour combinations do you know of a good resource for helping decide on colours?
Juliet Docherty
6 år siden
Hi Emily, I teach colour theory and my best advice is to try to think of how colours interact with each other, rather than whether you like them individually. We only have names for about thirty colours, and yet we can see hundreds of different hues. There is alot of good stuff on youtube and there is the Farrow and Ball 'How to Decorate' book. The main issue is recognising tone (how dark or light something is) and undertones (the discernible hue) that is, if something has a blue tinge, red tinge etc, even if it looks grey. It's a big subject.
Emily
6 år siden
Thanks colour happy. It’s just I need to decorate bedrooms and to be honest I’ve probably always decorated with very limited palettes before but now I wanted to try and use more colours in a layered way.
Juliet Docherty
6 år siden
Do some research on complementary colour schemes and harmonious (or analogous) colour schemes as a starting point. Pinterest is also really good for interior colour stuff.
Carolina
6 år siden
I’d say the headboard is more of a duck egg colour. Here are some colour schemes for duck egg. Hope it helps. I think it’s a lovely colour headboard.
Claira Jones
Forfatter
6 år siden
Thanks for all your help and apologies for the delay in responding. I‘ve decided that tartan is the way forward and will be guided by the fabric that closely matches the headboard. A number of samples have been requested! Thanks again!