How to find your own ideal colour for your living room

Tips, suggestions and tricks to revive living room walls and to set the optimal background, for a space reflecting your character, and that will furthermore boost your mood, and become an attraction for tenants and visitors. 

The living room is the heart of your home. It is a place for relax (sometimes for sleep as well), entertainment and to create memories. It serves to gather the whole family to watch their favourite TV series, to discuss on important matters, even to grab a slice of pizza. The living room represents a secure and familiar space, where anyone can be their own self. Furthermore, it expresses the desire for a calm and balanced environment or the need to share affection with the loved ones.

It is certain that the look and the ambience of such a significant space is influenced by furnishings; lighting; decoration; and style as a whole. Style can be anything from vintage to contemporary, from rustic to industrial; it can be generous or minimal, calm or pompous. However, it can be also influenced from the colour you will choose to decorate living room walls.

Hence, questions regarding, for instance, the ideal colour for a living room; which colour to use to coat living room walls; finding the optimal shades for your living room; and other similar questions, are prioritized as critical issues, as responses to them are neither single, nor unique.

Having stressed that, as the overall appearance of the living room and the colour of their walls reflect the personality of the tenants, the selected colour should serve a similar purpose. Such a stylistic guidance would be purposeful, if not paramount, in order to assist in clarifying certain aspects, and to cast such style to living room walls, through the selected colour. 

Neutral colours are those being neither warm, nor cool. They offer the advantage of flexibility. Such colours are white, grey, cream white, brown, and beige. They neither restrict nor entrap your options, while they also represent a golden standard.

It is considered to be both contemporary and classic. It can bring many different types of interior styling to the forefront. It is ideal to constitute the calm foundation of a colour contrast, should you choose bright coloured drapes and furniture (e.g. Cinnamon rose, teal). It is also suitable for minimal styling approaches.

Nevertheless, some people see grey as ordinary, even slightly dull. Even such objections can be overturned by the CG748 MARMARO shade from  COLORS OF GREECE COLLECTION, coming up as trendy, lively and casually luxurious

The CG719 AEGEAN WHITE shade from COLORS OF GREECE COLLECTION, is a perfect example of how a truly Greek shade can be also a modern one.

White offers lightness; makes spaces seem larger; provides calmness and balance; and stands out through its stability. There is no denying that white always gets easily stained, however this shortcoming cannot deter us.

From the same wonderful collection (COLORS OF GREECE COLLECTION), inspired by Greece and designed based on current international design trends, the CG693 IONIC BEIGE shade is a strong contender as well.

This colour loves wooden furniture and metals, and effortlessly gives birth to a welcoming space, a living room inviting you to experience it (especially in the winter season). It can be combined with sharper-toned colours to create a majestic contrast. 

Several brown tones are available: Marron, Chestnut, Chocolate, Camel, Tabac and more, all of them competing for a place on your living room’s walls. Brown offers elegance and blends perfectly with wooden floors, leather sofas and chairs. It is a timeless, perennially fashionable colour.

The COLORS OF GREECE COLLECTION offers a special shade resembling locusts, the CG718 HAROUPI. We propose it for its exceptional warmth and an air of fine taste. Being sufficiently dark, it constitutes a safe option for urban apartments seeking originality. 

Pastels - smooth shades being low in saturation - are suitable for living room walls, for they offer character without being overbearing.

Especially those similar to the three shades that follow, taken from the COLORS OF GREECE COLLECTION fandeck, bear strong reference to Greece and its constituent elements of nature, resulting in a familiar environment. 

Relaxes the eye and emanates tranquillity. Furthermore, it makes a point of superiority and optimism. With the aid of appropriate low or concealed lighting, it can offer a splendid night mood, whereas the CG688 TALI BLUE shade is a reference to Greece and the iconic visual aspects of sea and sky. Ideal for apartments with unobstructed view, or, even better, view to the sea.

The same notions are generally true for CG503 FYLLO ELIAS, a green pastel share resembling the leaved of the tree that identifies with Greece and has been praised by poets and painters.

It can be optimally matched to furniture that loves wood, as well as all natural materials; at the same time, it represents a call to viability and sustainability.

The last colour to contemplate is one linked to socializing, a colour that promotes interpersonal relations, loves extroversion, youth and excitement in life. The CG474 EROTAS shade is a call for living. It can provide a perfect match with wood as well as metal. One of its advantages is that it contributes instead of being dominant; it allows space instead of overwhelming; it is warm but not to the extent of moving beyond the pastel territory.

Also review this space to discover the coolest colours and the optimal combinations for your living room, and expand your insights and options

Let’s KRAFT! Find your ideal shade for living room walls in Inspired Collection, Colors of Greece Collection & Reflective Collection and let the colours speak for your own sake!

Better still (and quicker, and with better focus) leverage the innovative tool Chat in Color that uses artificial intelligence as well as state-of-the-art algorithms, and find the shade you have in mind.

* Shades may slightly vary, owing to the colouring of photos displayed in this article, the owing to your device’s display or the nature of the surface to be coated.