Do not give up! You don’t have to paint your living room white just because you’re afraid to go for other colors. We know that it can be overwhelming to decide on the shades that will go to your wall, since it is the largest surface in your environment.
Colors influence your living room décor and overall feel. Color affects our mood and will change the feeling of space, so it is better to use color to your advantage.
There are many options when it comes to using colors to give life to your living room, in this article we will show you the most common combinations that add great style to any environment.
Contents
- 1 26 colors to paint your living room
- 1.1 White and gray to keep the light in the space
- 1.2 Shades of gray to give interest
- 1.3 Paint beige to gain warmth
- 1.4 A warm and intense space with brown
- 1.5 Minimalism in all white
- 1.6 Use pastel pink for a romantic look
- 1.7 Elevate the look with a hot pink
- 1.8 Create a space saturated with red
- 1.9 Use orange for a retro living room
- 1.10 Yellow for cheerful spaces
- 1.11 Bet on cold tones with light blue
- 1.12 Another cool option: turquoise
- 1.13 A flexible space with blue
- 1.14 Add interest with dark blue
- 1.15 Create a contrast with black
- 1.16 Integrate violet in your living room
- 1.17 Evoke nature with green
- 1.18 More elegance with emerald green
- 1.19 A widely used combination: pink and gray
- 1.20 Contrast with pink and black
- 1.21 A cheerful duo: yellow and white
- 1.22 Bet on the Mediterranean style in blue and white
- 1.23 Green with white to generate freshness
- 1.24 Using the paint in an original way
- 1.25 Paint geometric shapes on your walls
- 1.26 Create a tall baseboard
- 1.27 Paint your walls with personality
26 colors to paint your living room
White and gray to keep the light in the space
If you feel comfortable with a totally white environment, but want to create a little more interest in the space, you can bet on using the combination of white with gray. These two neutrals define a very serene space, but with an interesting contrast.
Shades of gray to give interest
Use various shades of gray to achieve a space with visual variety and style. It is best to use dark colors on prominent walls and lighter shades on the walls of the windows, to increase the light.
Paint beige to gain warmth
Warm colors are another great option to use in your living room, increasing the brightness and creating a more welcoming atmosphere. Beige is the most used color in interiors due to its flexibility to adapt the decoration.
A warm and intense space with brown
Following the trend of earth tones, you can choose to use brown on all the walls or a prominent wall. It is a color that adds style and warmth to your space and is functional great with contrasting white furniture.
Minimalism in all white
Within the neutral colors, white is the most used for interiors due to its ability to visually increase space and light. For this reason, it is widely used in small spaces and is ideal to achieve a minimalist style.
Use pastel pink for a romantic look
Pink is increasingly used indoors both in decoration and on the walls, creating a romantic, warm space with a slight vintage style. Add pastel pink walls to add light to the environment.
Elevate the look with a hot pink
Go for a more saturated pink for a living room with a lot of style and character. This color works very well with dark woods, complementing each other perfectly.
Create a space saturated with red
It is another risky color to paint your walls, but if you dare, you will surely achieve a very original environment. Being warm colors, this tone also combines with dark woods.
Use orange for a retro living room
This is definitely not a color that is normally seen in interiors and therefore it will be a very original option. Add orange to your walls which, combined with other warm tones and brown leather, will give your living room a retro vibe.
Yellow for cheerful spaces
Yellow is a vibrant color, which causes joy. It is a great option to use in a living room both in its most vibrant tones and in the muted tones that tend to mustard.
Bet on cold tones with light blue
Cold tones are also widely used indoors, as they cause calm and relate to nature. One of the most used cold tones is light blue, due to its softness. Combine this color with other cool and warm tones alike to create a modern living room.
Another cool option: turquoise
If you are looking for a more vibrant shade to achieve a look similar to the previous example, go for turquoise. These colors go well with grays and light wood tones.
A flexible space with blue
Blue is a color widely used in living rooms for its sense of serenity, while adding style and quickly transforming the space. It is a very flexible color that combines well with neutrals, grays, yellows and greens, among others.
Add interest with dark blue
A way to have the best of the color blue adding a lot of elegance to your living room. As with the black color, dark tones are best used in very bright environments.
Create a contrast with black
It can be a risky bet, but we assure you that you will create a very original room with black on your walls. It is better to use this color in very bright spaces, so as not to remove light from the environment.
Integrate violet in your living room
A color close to blue, but that you might not think of for a living room. Violet is a very elegant tone that adds style and personality to any space.
Evoke nature with green
Pale or pastel greens are widely used indoors to create a relationship with nature. You can combine different shades of green in a space for a very original style.
More elegance with emerald green
The most elegant option to integrate green into your living room is through darker tones such as emerald green. This color is very nice with furniture in wood, white and brown leather as we see in the photo.
A widely used combination: pink and gray
You don’t have to decide on just one color for all the walls in your living room, but you can use a combination of tones that add much more style to your space. One of the most used combinations is pink with gray, creating a warm and modern space at the same time.
Contrast with pink and black
Keeping pink in the color palette, you can choose to combine it with black for a much more elegant and avant-garde look.
A cheerful duo: yellow and white
These two shades add a lot of light to your space, but also a lot of style. Yellow with white create a dynamic and youthful space, ideal for modern living rooms.
Bet on the Mediterranean style in blue and white
This is a very cool combination for modern and relaxed spaces. Together with gray, they form an ideal palette to style any room.
Green with white to generate freshness
Combined with white, the color green gains more strength and prominence in the space. Choose green for a focal wall that you want to stand out in the environment.
Using the paint in an original way
In the previous examples we have seen how to apply colors to all the walls of the room or to just one, creating a focal wall. But painting the walls from floor to ceiling in one color is not the only way to use paint in a room.
A very original way to integrate color and design into your walls is to paint the wall with a horizontal line that divides the surface in two, as we see in this photo or in the example of the combination of yellow and white colors.
Paint geometric shapes on your walls
Another innovative way to integrate color into your walls is by creating geometric shapes, such as squares, rectangles, or circles on your white walls. You can even decide to take more than one wall to give the shapes dimensionality.
Create a tall baseboard
Finally, we show you this great idea to integrate color into your environment, creating a high plinth with paint. In this example we see how three different colors are integrated on the same wall, adding a lot of style.
Paint your walls with personality
The choice of colors for the walls of your living room is determined by several factors, such as personal taste, the size of the environment, the light it receives and the decoration and furniture. Keep in mind that you can integrate any color in more saturated or paler tones, depending on the style of your living room.
Do not be afraid to think of bold colors that give your walls a lot of life and personality, as you have already seen there are many rooms full of color, and yours does not have to be the exception.
The most important thing when choosing living room colors for your walls and decoration is that it suits your tastes, space and lifestyle, so that you can enjoy your living room to the fullest and complement it with the other elements of the decoration.
