Warm paint colors for living rooms
How to Choose the Best Interior Paint Color
As any homeowner knows, choosing paint colors can be overwhelming. Use the following guide to help you explore and select interior color schemes you’ll love!
While there is no one-size-fits-all reply to "what’s the best interior paint color," some thoughtful research goes a long way. Go into this exercise with an open mind and a commitment to exploring your creative side as you search for your perfect paint color.
Step #1: Analyze the Room for Interior Paint Ideas
Hardwood floors, countertops, a fireplace surround, area rugs, and of course furniture...the colors in these items will help determine which paint color families will work best in your room, and help narrow your options.
Additionally, the right paint color for any room should reflect the mood you want to create in the room as well as complement its architecture and style.
Paint truly transforms your space–see some of our favorite colors for living room and bedroom if you are selecting color for either of these important spaces in your home.
Step #2: Explore the Best Interior Paint Colors–for You
If you want to cut to the chase, check out our tried and true most popular paint colors, where we highlight homeowner favorite colors including Chantilly Lace OC-65, Revere Pewter HC-172, Hale Navy HC-154 and many more.
For a more deliberate approach, use magazines, online tools like Pinterest and our Inspiration section to find colors and color combinations that inspire you. Is your eye drawn to darker hues, fresh pastels or bold primary colors? Explore how paint and color work together in the Color Handbook and tap into our online color tools.
Tip: Paint on a poster board, not a wall, so you can easily see how colors will appear around the room.
Step #3: Get Color Chips, then Test with Paint Samples
Once you’ve selected the colors you’re drawn to, visit your local Benjamin Moore retailer and pick up color chips and inspirational brochures to bring home.
While you may be tempted to use color swatches only to determine which color to use, the best way to test color in different lighting conditions is to buy paint samples from your local Benjamin Moore retailer. Natural and artificial light can impact the appearance of color, so viewing it at different times of the day in all lighting conditions is crucial. Learn more about paint color samples.
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Some painters may tell you that they can easily "match" any Benjamin Moore® color in another paint brand. This is simply not the case.
Engineered specifically by Benjamin Moore, for Benjamin Moore paints, our proprietary Gennex® Color Technology sets us apart by delivering color and durability that is truly unmatchable.
Make sure that the Benjamin Moore interior paint color you ultimately choose is realized to its full potential by using only Benjamin Moore products.
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When it comes to interior painting, you generally control the environment you’re working in. Weather does not have to be a consideration–so interior painting is a year-round opportunity.
You can get well prepared with our other how-to articles including how to pick sheen, cut paint in a room, prep a wall, and how to paint a wall so that you set yourself up for ultimate painting success.
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10 Best Warm Paint Colors for Your Home
My Simple Simple
Warm tones are categorized as the hues on the color wheel packed with yellow and red undertones. Think everything from sunny yellows to deep shades of rust, golden beiges, and everything in between. Contrary to cool tones, the versatile hues on the warm spectrum evoke an inviting vibe that can skew either happy and energetic or rich and cozy. With an array of shades that prove to be both timeless and trendy, settling on a single hue can feel next to impossible. To make warming up to the right shade easier, we tapped interior designers for the warm-toned paint ideas to implement on your next room redesign. Their picks ahead—you're getting warmer.
Trying to warm things up? Here are 12 warm paint colors that interior designers want you to cozy up to.
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Hope Fallin Color Design
"I think of grey as a neutral, like cream or white," Kate Lester of Kate Lester Interiors explains. "So for me, the perfect grey is all about warmth. I love Light French Grey by Sherwin Williams because it's got a depth and warmth that I can't really find in a lot of other grays and doesn't lean too lavender or baby blue. There's nothing worse than the sun going down and your wall turning purple, so make sure to test a few samples and look at them during the day and at night. Trust me on this one."
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Basic Blue House
"Hailed as 'the most flattering paint color ever,' Tissue Pink by Benjamin Moore is the versatile backdrop for both modern and traditional spaces," Campbell Minister of Decorated Interiors says. "This gorgeous color reads a bit coral, which means it does not need to be reserved for only, say, a little girl's bedroom.
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Terra Nelson
"Pashmina by Benjamin Moore is dramatic and sexy," Minister gushes. "I have used it on walls in an open kitchen as a complement to a tile backsplash and a small men's office space. The color changes in the light but predominantly reads brown and pairs well with creamy beiges and tans."
He recommends using it in a small enclosed space "to envelop your guests from the moment they walk in the door."
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Suzanne Falk Interior Design
"This neutral hue has a warm undertone and goes with almost any color scheme out there," Minister says of Sea Salt by Benjamin Moore. "Blacks, warm taupes, and creamy neutrals pop against this gorgeous color. It has a tad of brown mixed in, but the lighting in the room can change the way it reads in each space."
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Design: Highboy LA; Photo: Bethany Nauert Photography
Eilyn Jimenez, creative director and founder of Sire Design, says she likes incorporating warm tones like Behr's Canyon Dusk into her designs with small accent touches.
"If not used carefully, the color can give off an aged aesthetic, often making a space feel too dark," she explains, "So, it is important to use it in subtle ways. Additionally, blending brown-toned accents with more modern materials like marble can create beautiful juxtapositions of color and texture."
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Sarah G Tucker
"I love Benjamin Moore's Revere Pewter for a warm taupe," says Cara Fox, owner and lead designer at The Fox Group. "This perfect neutral looks great when applied to trim and paired with white walls. Use it on baseboards, cased openings, crown molding, and window trim for a timeless, Scandinavian look."
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My Simply Simple
"We love to use Faded Gray by Dunn Edwards when we are looking for a warm neutral color," Mary Maydan, founder and principal of Maydan Architects, says. "This color provides a great background for almost everything and helps us to create a timeless space. It's calm, soothing, and adds warmth and character.
We can easily add a trendy accent color next to it for drama and boldness, or we can keep the room quiet and luxurious by using it on its own."
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DeVOL Kitchens
"Charleston Gray by Farrow & Ball is a beautiful, chic way of using a shade of brown," Cara Woodhouse of Cara Woodhouse Interiors says. "It's a new twist on the traditional chocolate brown color."
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Patrice Stephens Interiors
"Sherwin Williams' 7017 Dorian Gray is a true warm gray," Stephanie Lindsey at Etch Design Group explains. "Used as an overall exterior color and interior color, it's versatile for any setting."
She notes that her firm has used this numerous times when a homeowner is looking for a warmer neutral color as it creates the perfect backdrop for living rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms alike.
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Bob Bakes, cofounder and head of design at Bakes & Kropp tells us, "I love Sharkskin by Benjamin Moore—there is a beautiful subtlety to this gray color.
It's not too bright or too dark and can easily blend into the background or serve as a highlight color."
Finally, he adds this warm gray tone "contrasts particularly well with the walnut stains we've been seeing over the last few years."
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Living room in warm colors - about interior design
Decorating the living room in warm colors can be considered a traditional option.
Indeed, no one will argue with the fact that the vast majority of owners, when creating the interior decoration of the living room, choose exactly warm colors. Discreet warm shades can create a truly homely cozy atmosphere in the room, conducive to evening family gatherings.
As well as a calm and serene rest after a hard day's work. The living room in warm colors will be the topic of our article, we will talk not only about how to decorate a room for receiving guests in such colors and their combinations, but we will also reveal several design secrets of the color design of the room.
What is meant by the phrase warm tones?
To deal with the phrase warm tones, it is important to remember that all existing colors come from red, yellow and blue. Red and yellow and their derivatives are warm colors, while blue and those derived from it are cold. Of course, it cannot be said that all warm colors, without exception, are well suited for decorating the color design of a living room, but many of them are quite suitable for this.
What warm colors are good for decorating a living room?
- Orange and its shades: peach, carrot, apricot and others - this is the warmest color. Both the ceiling and the walls are decorated in this color, upholstered furniture in this color also looks great.
- Light shades of green: yellowish green, herbal, olive and pistachio can also bring a feeling of warmth to the living room, because the first associations associated with this color are summer and grass. With the right dosage of this color in the design of the living room, the interior will look simply chic and fresh.
- Shades of brown: toffee, chocolate and vanilla, not only create a cozy and warm atmosphere in the living room, but also add romance to the interior. Furniture in this color is practical and looks rich.
- Golden shades are also considered warm, they are suitable for decorating almost all interior items. A classic living room is simply inconceivable without the use of golden color.
Of course, there are a great many warm colors and their shades and it is impossible to list them all. We tried to highlight only those that, in our opinion, will ideally appear in various interior items of the living room.
Horizontal and vertical surfaces in warm colors
Strictly speaking, color contrasts predominate in contemporary living room styles. A combination of warm and cold shades is considered very popular in the color design of the walls. For example, a certain cold shade is taken as the main color of the wall and diluted with warm, in the form of separate elements placed on a horizontal surface.
Using this method, designers try to achieve color harmony in the living room, but it is far from being justified in all cases. A good example is the classic design of the living room in beige tones, which has not lost popularity and is quite relevant today, as the main color in the room, a light shade of beige is used in combination with golden and chocolate elements.
The floor and ceiling in the living room are often decorated in warm colors. Moreover, this is typical for almost any style of interior, but most often if the floor and ceiling are decorated in warm colors, then the walls are in cold colors. There are exceptions to this rule, but for the most part it is. For example, in English-style living rooms, a combination of a red ceiling, milky-white walls and a chocolate floor is often found.
Living room furniture
Let's start with the fact that warm colors are completely natural for furniture, so most traditional styles only accept furniture in warm colors. Deciding to create a living room in warm colors, choose cabinet furniture in traditional warm colors:
- wood,
- chocolate,
- beige.
The following colors are suitable for upholstered furniture: peach, apricot, tangerine, pistachio and others. Pay attention to the combination of warm shades, some of them go well with any colors, while others do not.
We recommend that you pay special attention to the color design of upholstered furniture. A perfect color option for her can be shades of brown. In particular, a brown sofa, especially a corner one, looks solid and rich in the living room, where the dominant color is beige, or rather its light shades. Upholstered furniture in warm colors is always much more practical than the same furniture in cold colors, since it is more versatile from a design point of view and is suitable for more interior compositions.
Harmonious design of the living room in a combination of warm and cold tones
We have already noted that the best color combinations are born precisely due to the interweaving of warm and cold tones. To illustrate this statement more vividly, let's give a number of warm and cold color combinations typical for modern living room interiors.
- Red and turquoise. This color combination perfectly manifests itself both in individual interior items of the living room, and in the overall color design of the room.
For example, turquoise looks good as a primary color, diluted with red as a secondary one. - Red and white. Perfectly combined in the interior of a modern living room, and this combination is used mainly for the design of horizontal and vertical surfaces.
- Shades of orange and white. "In all honesty" it is safe to say that if you use white as the main color, then it can be combined with any other color. However, not all such combinations are suitable as a basis for the color composition of the living room. Apricot, tangerine, pumpkin and white go well together and are suitable for decorating a room for receiving guests.
- Shades of beige and any cool color. It is in this combination that any shades of cold colors are combined with beige, moreover, these combinations are good for furniture, walls, ceiling, floor and accessories in your living room.
Summing up, we note that the shades of warm colors are ideal for the living room. Designers have already come up with and continue to come up with an incredible number of combinations of warm colors for specific interior styles and trends.
