Saturday, March 13, 2010

For paint, what color goes good with olive green?

I'm painting my big bedroom with high ceilings olive green, but i want one wall to be another color.. the wall across from my bed, where it has a dresser and the tv. Any suggestions on what colors compliment olive green??For paint, what color goes good with olive green?
play around with the Sherwin Williams color visualizer to find something that you like. It is the best paint visualizer on the web, imho. I like how their color palette is laid out, I like that you can search by color family %26amp; color name, the ';painted'; rooms look the most realistic, and it suggests coordinating color schemes. You can literally spend hours:


http://sherlink.sherwin.com/swapp/color_鈥?/a>





I think a color like ';inspired lilac'; (# 6820) would contrast the olive beautifully.For paint, what color goes good with olive green?
I would recommend you paint the wall khaki tan. It is the only color that compliments olive green. I was on the Sherwin William's paint site, and I was trying to coordinate a color with olive green, but didn't like how any other color looked. Good luck!
Go down to the paint store and look at greens that are


just a little lighter or darker you don't want to go to


far out of the olive color.What i would recommend is look around


and find somebody that may have something close to


what your looking for.
Paint it aqua. Olive and aqua are beautiful together. Besides a lot of curtains and bedspreads are aqua, sage, olive and soft gold. This color combination is very popular right now and I have it in one of my rooms and love it.
I have olive green couches and the accent colors I use for the rug, pillows, decorations etc, are a burnt orange (kinda terra cotta), buttery yellow, black, light brown, dark brown, gold, taupe and ivory
any natural tone, white, black, tan, brown...those kinds of colors. just take the color swatches (whatever they're called) and go down the row of colors in the store with the olive green one comparing it to all the others
You could try tan or brown to go with the olive green if you dont want to be too bold, but a medium to deep purple would really look amazing with the olive green. Good luck with your project :o)
off white or light tan. also a subtle pink/whitish shade. rose colored accents look good with it too (not for a whole wall though).
burnt orange to the browner side http://img.hgtv.com/HGTV/2007/04/05/HCLR鈥?/a>
A nice rich almond ivory color., olive green is dark so this will put some light in the room.
Definitely gold.
i would stripe it with olive green and ivory and that could be your wall that would grab attention
deep red. tan. buttery yellow. i have olive walls in my home and have accented with reds and yellows.
a deep rich burgandy
Plum
a dark tan
tan or pale yellow

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