I have done tons of research regarding midcentury paint colors. I chose pink. The chair rail was put up over 10 years ago and will ruin the hollow core door and cement walls if I try to take it down now. What do you think?
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- “Pink is certainly a fifties color and all of those are pleasing. (Note: how much available natural light there is in the room is crucial to choosing the best paint color & depth.) Since you hate the chair rail, paint it & everything pink so it fades away. Right now it’s accentuated with the top and bottom contrasting colors then the white chair rail.”
- “Painting the chair rail and entire wall the same pink would look nice.”
- “Quite unfortunate about the chair rail. It breaks up the plane of the space and is not MC or MCM. Are you sure it would ruin the cement walls if you carefully try to take it down? (maybe try in an inconspicuous area to test it out). If you truly cannot take it off the walls, I would strongly suggest painting the full wall and the chair rail one color, to make it less conspicuous, instead of the 2 tones and white, which bring attention to it. I am not a fan of the pink shades… kind of ‘meh’ to me. I would definitely do the whole door in one color, including the weird rail across it.“
- “I’d paint the lower half white like the trims and then just about every color will do on the top half. Sunflower yellow, powder pink, sand beige, moss green, petrol blue.“
- “The pink will look lovely if you end up with cushions and maybe a rug, pictures, lampshades etc that start to bring it all together. So odd that they painted the doors two colors like the walls. If your architraves and skirtings are white, I’d paint the door white too – it would reduce the strangeness of the rail going across the middle of it.“
- “I would suggest that whatever you choose, that you paint over the chair rail in that same color as the wall. To kind of make it disappear onto the wall. .”
- “Our last two houses we got cheap in part because they were painted a fleshy looking peach color that was apparently popular at some point. Anyway, I’d avoid anything that looks like a flesh tone.“
- “ Someday when you can afford it get a new door which will help a lot. It’s weird that they put a chair rail across the door. Your style looks a bit Hollywood Regency which is also a MC thing … look at high end decor in movie sets from ‘50s.”
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