Decorating and Design - ceiling colour HELP!

Hi There,

needing help in choosing a ceiling colour for our lounge room.

We plan to have a feature wall in a suede finish in a chocolate or charcoal colour. The rest of the walls will be a red colour, a bit like red velvet. we have cyprus pine floorboards and all our furnishings are in pine. soft furnishes are not yet decided, but plan for them to match the feature wall.

Our problem is this, a white ceiling looks really bad in all of our test runs. Any ideas on what colour we could paint the ceiling? using the red or feature colour makes it feel all boxed in and small, need a colour that will still make the room feel roomy and open but fit in with the other colours!

any ideas are appreciated!

Lisa

Welcome to the forums Lisa

Often ceilings are painted 1/2 or 1/4 tint of the wall paint but this may be too dark for your room. An off white that compliments your wall colors should look fine.

first off, i vote for a chocolate "feature" wall over charcoal. dark brown & red are great together with pine wood. gray won't do much with the wood floors. but if you're planning on a sofa in the same color as the feature wall, won't a chocolate sofa disappear against a chocolate wall? what's the point of the feature wall anyway? what are you featuring? maybe you should rethink that & do all the walls in red & just let the uphostery be chocolate. the room will seem bigger & less chopped up if you use the same paint on all walls, and even the ceiling, for that matter.

if bright white isn't working, but you don't want anything dark, what about a lighter version of the chocolate, like a tan/beige?

or you can echo the floor color and use a lighter version of that color, like a camel color.

what color is your woodwork/trim??