Dear people who know anything about color:

[bironic]

Acquiring the couch tipped me over from "should really paint the walls" to "time to paint the walls." Everything in here is white, off-white, wood, or gray, which was fine when I didn't think I'd be living here long, but has been getting to me over the past months. So today I picked up a couple of samples: one pale green, one pink. I haven't

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[deelaundry]

I know nothing about color (you've seen our place) -- but you need wall art! Ikea has fun stuff for cheap, or I've also had fun going to garage sales and seeing what people are getting rid of.

[bironic]

So sayeth my artist friend! (Though of course the test patches are already up...)

[synn]

I think the green goes better with your rug and bedding. Maybe the 'dusty' equivalent of the green you have? Like... a light moss green. Or the 'sassy green' or 'mountain botanical' here:
http://valspar.com/explore-colors/choose-a-color.html?source=p&mcode=Search_Google
Something that will bring it closer to a kind of earth tone.

Not looking at any blues?

I do think the pink would be fun, maybe as the dusty rose version people are suggesting. What about putting it in the hallway and/or bathroom? I think there's less risk of you getting sick of it there, and those places are enclosed, so the lighter pink might brighten them up.

[pwcorgigirl]

That pink really came out pink on the wall!

We just repainted most of the inside of our house, and found a light cream-in-your-coffee color that worked great in the living area, which has carpet about the color of your couch and a lot of wood. We got the paint store to mix Benjamin Moore Shaker Beige and Sea Urchin together. These colors use the same base, so it was easy to do this.

[bironic]

Hi, appropriate icon!

Hm, cream. This khaki kind of green called "avocado" looked good in the online color matcher thing, too. And then there is the wall art two people have recommended. Grargh, choices! I long for the days of 8-color crayon boxes.

[pwcorgigirl]

The color we used is closer to a khaki than a cream. I put off doing the repainting for a year because all the colors were so overwhelming. My brain locks up when faced with a sample rack in a paint store. Then we found great paint at the Habitat for Humanity Restore and I came home and mixed the colors I wanted myself. It was oddly liberating. :D

If it was me, I'd paint the whole place something neutral, like a light creamy-khaki, and mix that color with a small amount of pink for the bed area and a small amount of green for the couch area. It would give the accents you want in a subtle way. Then pick up the blue in the rug with a couple of throw pillows for the couch and punch up the pink with some pink and brown patterned throw pillows for the bed.

[bironic]

Oh, now you're just getting fancy. :)

[chocolate_frapp]

I like the green in the bedroom and the pink in the living room, personally.

[secondsilk]

Maybe a little yellower in the pink? Cut it with something other than white to make it a little palers.

You could also get a half strength version of the colour you chose for the darker corner or nook of the apartment. That's what they did in my parents' hall way, the front bit, with light from the glass in the door, is half as strong as the colour in the long bit of the hall, which has no direct light.